History In New Hampshire

CLINTON CAME BACK!!

AP CALLS IT FOR CLINTON, NBC, CBS TOO

** A Clinton aide: "We got our woman back and our downscale voters back and we raised the right questions about choice."
** Strategist Mark Penn: "As voters began to see the choice they have and heard Hillary speak from her heart they came back to her."
** Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe: "It's a two-person race. We're ready to go"
** Obama: "I am still fired up, ready to go!"..touts record numbers who "spoke up for change..."
** Obama aide: "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT" -- SC is next -- "What we are is on an incredible, historic journey...are we going to let her take that away from us?"


Obama leadership cloistered to figure out what the heck happened; Clinton campaign readies "Comeback Girl" spin; readies surrogates; GENDER GAP: CLINTON WINS WOMEN 47 TO 34....Obama campaign hopes for Durham (where school isn't in) and Hanover (Dartmouth) for last minute votes...Exeter is also out. ... but Clinton leading big in big cities...Manchester and Nashua... Obama winning women under 30....

RESULTS: color>GOP: 53% reporting McCain..37%..Romney..31%....Huckabee...12%.....Giuliani....9%...Paul... 8%

DEM: 68% reporting: Clinton: 39%...Obama 36%..Edwards 17%......

** Turnout estimate: 500,000, with 280K Democrats and 220K Republicans...exactly what
Secretary of State Bill Gardner projected.....
** Will Clinton come out first, like Bill in '92?....
** Remember: turnout guru Michael Whouley blessed the New Hampshire organization of HRC and didn't set foot in Iowa......
** Other HRC organization heroes: national political director Guy Cecil, senior adviser/program manager Karen Hicks, state director Nick Clemons...
** HRC enjoying company of friends, Terry McAuliffe, in happy private celebration in Concord
** The campaign had 150 field staff in NH...
** They knocked on 120,000 doors over the weekend... thousands more today...