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TRENTON, N.J.--Guess they're not loving that U.S.A. Patriot Act up there in libertarian heaven, otherwise known as New Hampshire.


Rather points out that New Hampshire is the first state tonight to go a different way than it did in 2000, and it went for Kerry.


Nonetheless, it looks as though a Kerry victory is becoming ever less likely.

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