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Article: For Sen. Clinton, New Hampshire Is Forbidden State.(Page One)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- December 12, 2005
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Byline: Ben Smith
The drive from Portland, Me., to Boston takes less than two hours, but when Hillary Clinton made the journey in October, she flew.
To do otherwise would have violated what has become the central taboo of her independent political career: It would have put her, for 14 miles, on the soil of the State of New Hampshire.
Mrs. Clinton's New Hampshire taboo is the physical form of her refusal to discuss what has become, for supporters and critics alike, an assumption: her bid for the Presidency in 2008. But it isn't just that she hasn't, unlike every other Democrat seriously eyeing the nomination, visited New Hampshire this year. She ...