Democrat Hillary Clinton defied the polls and narrowly upset Barack Obama in New Hampshire on Tuesday, breathing new life into her U.S. presidential campaign after a poor third-place finish in Iowa.
Republican John McCain, meanwhile, capped his rise from the political scrap heap with a win over Mitt Romney that injected new hope in his once-struggling presidential campaign.
The win for Clinton, who faced a flood of polls showing her losing badly, gave her new momentum and set up a tough battle with Obama as the race heads on to contests in Nevada and South Carolina.
"I listened to you and in the process I found my own voice," Clinton told wildly cheering supporters in Manchester. "Let's give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me."
The victory put McCain, an Arizona senator, in the middle of a wild scramble for the party's nomination for the November election after being written off this summer, when he was low on cash and shedding campaign staff.
"Tonight, we sure showed 'em what a comeback looks like," McCain told a crowd of supporters in Nashua who repeatedly chanted "Mac is back!"
New Hampshire's primary is the second high-profile battleground, following Iowa, in the state-by-state process of choosing Republican and Democratic candidates for November's election to succeed President George W. Bush.
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