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Manchester: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton courted young voters and tried to project a friendlier face to her audiences in New Hampshire as the vaunted Clinton political machine struggled to fend off Senator Barack Obama and his change-oriented message before tomorrow's primary.
Snarled traffic and enormous lines of voters greeted the Obama campaign at a morning rally in Nashua, as close to 3,000 people jammed into a high school gymnasium and an adjacent overflow room to hear the senator from Illinois challenge voters to create "a new majority" in the country.
Clinton drew a smaller, but nonetheless bigger than anticipated, audience at an event in Concord, temporarily putting the senator from New York in charge of pointing out open seats to those trying to see her speak.
Former President Bill Clinton campaigned separately and sought to invoke some of the magic of his 1992 campaign.
Two new polls released shortly before on Saturday's debate showed Clinton and Obama neck and neck in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, with former Senator John Edwards, the second-place finisher in Iowa, trailing.
A CNN-WMUR poll taken by the University of New Hampshire showed Obama and Clinton tied at 33 per cent, with Edwards at 20 per cent. A week ago, Clinton led Obama 34 per cent to 30 per cent.
The Concord Monitor reported that its new Research 2000 poll showed Obama at 34 per cent, Clinton at 33 per cent and Edwards at 23 per cent.
New Hampshire's primary, which normally falls eight days after the Iowa caucuses, comes five days later this year because of changes in the nominating calendar.
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