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Article: New Hampshire makes a difference.(Special Report)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2000
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NASHUA, N.H. - Funny things happen when politicians go to New Hampshire - expectations and plans are upset, lives and even history are changed.
"A lot of people have gone to bed Monday [before the primary] thinking they were going to be president and they wake up Wednesday very disappointed," said Tom Rath, a Republican National Committee member from New Hampshire and a longtime party activist.
The first-in-the-nation primary is a quadrennial institution that has provoked a series of memorable, and history-defining, moments: Sen. Edmund S. Muskie crying in front of the Manchester Union Leader, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. losing his temper over an ...