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CONCORD, N.H. (Jan.8) — Mike Huckabee is spending his last day in New Hampshire visiting polling stations and thanking voters. Richard Zussman was with Huckabee most of today and say Huckabee is campaigning hard to be the second U.S. president from the town of Hope, Arkansas.
Mike Huckabee has asked voters on the campaign to give Hope another chance. He stresses he is not another Bill Clinton. But he says there is something special about the city they were both born in.
[“All I can tell you is that Hope was a great place to grow up. I think there are certain things about that community, about that part of Arkansas, that helped develop in us all a sense that we could do it.” Huckabee]
Huckabee has drawn comparisons to the Former President because of his smooth-talking and music-playing. But he says he isn’t a repeat of Clinton.
[“I have not seen a lot of people say that we’ve already had a Governor from Arkansas, we’re not ready to have another one. People look at me as a unique individual. They don’t assume I’m Bill Clinton redux.” Huckabee]
Huckabee will await the primary results here in New Hampshire tonight. He leaves for South Carolina tomorrow morning at 9 am.
For FM 89 News, I’m Richard Zussman in Dover, New Hampshire.
(Richard Zussman, a broadcast journalism graduate student, is covering the New Hampshire primaries for KUAR Public Radio.)
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