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Clinton fights back with mantra of change

By Edward Luce and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in New Hampshire

Published: January 6 2008 22:01 | Last updated: January 6 2008 22:01

It may prove to be too late for Hillary Clinton – particularly if anything can be read from the swelling New Hampshire crowds Barack Obama is consistently attracting. But no one could accuse her of overlooking the message sent by Iowa’s voters last week who placed her third behind Mr Obama and John Edwards.

Canvassing among the very different and much smaller New England electorate of New Hampshire on Sunday, Mrs Clinton repeated one word over and over again: “change”. Speaking with voters in the small town of Nashua – where, like Mr Obama, she drew a crowd that proved too large for the chosen venue – the erstwhile Democratic frontrunner said the choice posed between “change” and “experience” was a false one.

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