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| White House battle goes US-wide |
| Presidential hopefuls are campaigning across the US as a series of primaries in key battleground states nears.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-January-2008
9:35:30 AM |
| The next focus for the Democrats is the Nevada caucus on 19 January, set to be a head-to-head test of support between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The Republicans, whose race is between several contenders, are targeting Michigan and South Carolina, where they will hold a TV debate later in the day.
Crucial primaries are also taking place this month in Michigan and Florida.
The hopefuls are aiming to build momentum before 22 states nominate their preferred candidate on 5 February, Super Tuesday, to run in November's presidential election.
Wide open race
The style of campaigning seen in the first two contests, Iowa and New Hampshire, where candidates wooed voters face-to-face will now change, analysts say.
It will now be a broader national campaign driven by state-hopping plane trips and big-money media advertisements.
The Republican contest has been blown wide open after 71-year-old Arizona Senator John McCain's comeback triumph in New Hampshire over Mitt Romney on Tuesday.
The two rivals, who campaigned on Wednesday in Michigan, will head south on Thursday to face other Republican White House hopefuls in a TV debate at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Mr Romney - who aims to become the nation's first Mormon president - must win Michigan, the state of his birth, to resurrect his high-spending but faltering campaign, correspondents say.
Fred Thompson, the former Tennessee senator, is in South Carolina also struggling to mount a comeback, while ex-Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is seeking to woo the state's evangelical conservatives.
Mr Huckabee was the Republican winner in Iowa but came third in New Hampshire.
Further south, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been campaigning in Florida.
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