New Hampshire (US), Jan. 27 : U. S. Vice-President Joe Biden has been known in the past to commit to verbal gaffes and for upsetting the Indian American community.

It did so again in New Hampshire on Thursday, when he adopted foreign accent while discussing the departure of call-center jobs overseas

News sites were quick to label the accent as Indian, as the subcontinent is home to many customer calls centers, and Biden had referenced India in his remarks.

Biden was addressing workers of a company that has partnered with a local college in Rochester.

New Hampshire (US), Jan. 12 : President Barack Obama secured the support of nearly 300 registered Republicans in New Hampshire, suggesting that not all in the Grand Old Party (GOP) dislike him and see him serving a second term as president.

Indeed, 282 Republican primary voters wrote in Obama to be their candidate for the presidency, according to final results posted by New Hampshire’s secretary of state, The Politico reports.

Unfortunately, the nearly 300 votes are not enough to award Obama any delegates to the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida. (ANI)

Concord (New Hampshire, US), Jan. 11 : Support among independents has dropped for both U. S. President Barack Obama and emerging Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney.

Democratic insiders fret that independents - mostly white, mostly middle-class - will be the president's electoral Achilles' heel, defecting by the millions and demolishing his 2008 majorities in a half dozen battleground states, including New Hampshire.

According to Politico, Independent voters don't like Romney much, either.

New Hampshire (US), Jan 27 : A retired schoolteacher, who cherished becoming a college graduate till her 100th birthday, died just a day after realising her life-long dream.

Harriet Richardson Ames, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Jan 2, earned a bachelor's degree just a day before she died in New Hampshire Saturday.

Harriet's health was failing, and she was under hospice care, Press TV reported Wednesday.

"Harriet was so moved that she started to cry," said Norma Walker, coordinator of the Keene State College Golden Circle Society, New Hampshire, who delivered a certificate to Ames last week.

"If I die tomorrow, I'll know I'll die happy, because my degree's in the works," Walker recalled Harriet as saying.

The nation’s deepening economic problems, having taken their toll on McCain’s candidacy, have recently led to his campaign increasingly focusing questions about Obama’s character and background. With a little more than a fortnight to the presidential election, McCain campaign has resorted to automated phone calls that link Barack Obama to the 1960s radical, William Ayers.

Zogby Interactive’s latest Obama vs McCain opinion polls show that Obama leads in Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, while McCain leads in Indiana and Ohio

Alaska Governor and Republican VP candidate, Sarah Palin, rallying in the battleground state of New Hampshire, said Wednesday that she feels a kinship with the moose-hunting, tax-hating voters of the state. She said New Hampshire shares much in common with her home state, and even wished she could share the motto “Live free or die.”

John McCain is trailing Barack Obama in the presidential race, in Nevada and New Hampshire — that’s what the recent Obama vs McCain Nevada, New Hampshire polls say. The polls show that Obama is having significant lead over McCain.

The women voters in New Hampshire are both full of praise and criticism for the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. In fact, Palin is under intense scrutiny for her experience, or lack of it; preparedness; and the interviews aired nationally.

Compared to 2007, people from New England states except Vermont had fewer poor air quality days and as a result, they breathed easier this summer.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says summer 2008 had 28-days as compared to 53-days when ozone monitors recorded concentrations above health standards.

Five of the region’s six states had fewer poor air quality days between April and September compared to the same period last year.

It appears from the recent Obama McCain New Hampshire pre-election opinion polls that Barack Obama and John McCain are going pretty close - going almost neck and neck in the presidential race in New Hampshire.

Out of three opinion polls conducted uptill now, Obama has 1 % point lead over McCain in two polls, and McCain, on the other hand according to Zogby Interactive poll, has 4 % points’ lead over Obama. So, statistically they are pretty close.

A recent poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire shows that John McCain and Barack Obama are statistically running neck-to-neck in New Hampshire.

Barack Obama has 46 percent of the votes, 3 percent more than John McCain who has 43 percent of the votes. 8 percent remain undecided.  

McCain seems to be popular among conservatives, older voters and those living near Massachusetts, while Obama has the votes of liberals, younger voters and those living along the seacoast.

For the first time, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, Barack Obama and his former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigned together today.

On Thursday, Michelle Obama campaigned, in New Hampshire, together with former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen who is now running for the U.S. senate.

In her campaign, Obama eulogized Hillary Rodham Clinton’s works saying that Clinton is responsible for bringing the concerns of working families in U.S. to the forefront.

“We are closer to this America than ever before, and that's because of an extraordinary woman who's not in this room but she's traveling with my husband tomorrow, and that woman is Hillary Clinton,” she said.

Exeter, NH: It was homecoming of the Republican Odysseus, Sen. John McCain, who returned from his victorious Odyssey, to the state, where he started his 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns.