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Article: Analysis: For John McCain, New Hampshire will launch or sink a resurgent campaign
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- January 8, 2008
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New Hampshire is John McCain's last stand, his best opportunity to revive a presidential campaign that was near death last summer.
A McCain victory in New Hampshire would be the consummate comeback for a comeback specialist, a survivor who weathered more than five years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp, a wrenching congressional scandal and three bouts with aggressive skin cancer.
For rival Mitt Romney, a McCain resurgence would be a searing loss, another second-place finish for a campaign that had anticipated back-to-back wins in Iowa and New Hampshire and had spent tens of millions of dollars more than other Republicans.
McCain's fate is in the hands of independent ...