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Too much beer to blame for blogger’s felony charge for fake email

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Late-night drinking shenanigans often lead to embarrassing but funny drunk texts. But for one New Hampshire blogger, his alcohol consumption and shaky choices might end up with him in jail. The Concord Monitor reports 28-year-old Carl Gibson turned himself in last week after he was identified as the person behind a hoax email discouraging GOP voters from the polls. Gibson reportedly sent out an official-looking email claiming a Republican candidate for the New Hampshire State House was withdrawing from the race. He…

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Email insights: Scott Walker, ‘spite shopping’ and a sweet sweater deal

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As Scott Walker hits the campaign trail – not as an official presidential candidate yet, mind you — voters will undoubtedly hear many tales of his fervent frugality. Getting much airplay is one such story, in which the Wisconsin governor scored a sweater from Kohl’s for only $1; a deal that combined extreme couponing and Kohl’s Cash. In fact, he even joked about it during a speech in New Hampshire while he was wearing the sweater. In Walkerworld, the term…

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New Hampshire Republican voters relish crowded field

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For New Hampshire Republicans, the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign feel like an embarrassment of riches. The state’s notoriously fickle, independent-minded voters are relishing a wide-open Republican race and are in no hurry to crown a front-runner. Nearly 20 potential candidates — senators, governors, business executives and more — have paraded through the state in recent days to curry favor with voters and court party leaders. “The more, the better,” said Jim Blake, a Republican from Londonderry. The…

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White House hopefuls gather in New Hampshire

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11 a.m. (EDT) Just down the street from the big gathering of Republican presidential hopefuls in Nashua, N.H., a leading Democratic voice is saying that all those Republican voices are the same. “With all of their shared extreme views they might as well just be one,” said Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. Wasserman Schultz says she’s in New Hampshire to draw a contrast between Republican and Democratic candidates. She says each Republican would take the country…

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Mitch Perry Report for 4.17.16 — In search of where the GOP stands

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Happy Friday to you all. Greetings from Nashua, N.H., where the latest cattle call of GOP presidential aspirants and possible aspirants are congregating for the next two days. I’ve long criticized the way we elect presidents,  putting so much emphasis — too much emphasis — on two states, Iowa and New Hampshire, to define who should be leading the free world. Yes, they can do retail politics here in a way that they can’t in say, Florida (because of our state’s…

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Hillary Clinton advisers traveling to New Hampshire, Iowa

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Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s campaign manager-in-waiting is traveling to the early voting states of New Hampshire and Iowa this week for meetings with Democratic activists as the former secretary of state prepares for a likely presidential campaign. Robby Mook, who is expected to be Clinton’s campaign manager, was visiting New Hampshire on Monday and Tuesday and traveling to Iowa on Wednesday and Thursday for meetings with party officials and activists, Democrats familiar with the plans said. The people were not authorized…

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Are the early primary states a big deal anymore?

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Few states have shaped presidential politics like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. By hosting the nation’s first presidential primaries and caucuses, the states have heaped political and financial rewards for decades on successful candidates and hastened the end for underachievers. Yet their clout may be declining in 2016. Campaign aides and veteran political operatives expect the Republicans’ next primary season to extend well beyond the first three states, thanks to an explosion of well-financed super PACs, a robust stable…

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