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“I’ve come from behind before and I’m going to take the same fight that I’ve been making here to New Hampshire.”Sen Edwards, aged 50, also claimed momentum. Kerry, whose campaign was given up for dead just weeks ago, predicted another comeback in New Hampshire’s 27 January primary, where Sen. Dean’s once-commanding lead in the opinion polls has been shrinking.”As I’ve said in New Hampshire and here, I’m a fighter,” the four-term Massachusetts senator and Vietnam War veteran told The Associated Press. Dean, the former governor of Vermont, finished third, stripped of his front-runner’s mantle and humbled althopugh adamant that “We’re still alive.”Representative Dick Gephardt finished a weak fourth and planned to end his 33-year political career by pulling out of the race today, which would reduce the field of Democratic candidates to seven.Sen Kerry secured 38 per cent of the votes, Sen Edwards 32 per cent, Sen Dean 18 per cent and Rep Gephardt 11 per cent Long-shot candidate Rep Dennis Kucinich of Ohio won one per cent.Sen. Kerry’s comeback blew the contest wide open, setting the stage for a free-for-all in next week’s New Hampshire’s primary.Sen John Edwards came in second Sen. Senator John Kerry rode an 11th-hour surge to victory in the Iowa presidential caucuses, dealing a stunning blow to front-runner Howard Dean in the race to choose the Democratic nominee to run against President George Bush. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing children1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152) than any governor in modern US history2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the three years of the Bush administration221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush’s tax cuts took effect.

He promised the measure would add 306,0001,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December. A fast-growing Hispanic population meanwhile has made traditionally Republican Arizona a much less safe bet than in the past.For the Democrats the primaries are the focus. After their fluctuating and draining struggle in Iowa, the candidates headed to New Hampshire for a week of campaigning before the 27 January primary.None of them is wasting any time. After his late surge in the polls in Iowa, John Kerry scheduled a 7am arrival rally at Manchester, New Hampshire – even though he reportedly had lost his voice yesterday after a fortnight of relentless 18-hours-a-day campaigning.. In Ohio, a traditional swing state won by Mr Bush four years ago, the downturn in the traditional manufacturing economy has given Democrats new hope of victory. To all intents and purposes, however, that campaign has long since started.The government is quietly launching programmes to help Mr Bush in key states, including an animal research laboratory in Iowa and financial help for orange-growers in Florida, two states decided by a whisker in 2000.Hours after delivering the State of the Union, the President leaves Washington tomorrow for campaign-style visits to Ohio, New Mexico and Arizona, three states up for grabs in the general election.Republicans hope to snatch New Mexico, which Al Gore very narrowly carried in 2000.

Under the Bush plan, workers would be allowed to invest in the stock market some of the social security taxes they currently pay.On health care, the speech will contain proposals to broaden coverage, and reduce costs – now running at an unprecedented 15 per cent of GDP. But with the federal deficit at its own record of some $500bn (£280bn) or 5 per cent of GDP, there is scant money available to fund large new initiatives.Publicly, the White House insists Mr Bush will not be holding any gala rally formally launching his re-election campaign. Insisting that recovery is now well under way, he is expected to make specific proposals on health care and for a part-privatisation of social security, an issue that figured prominently in his 2000 White House campaign. In a calculated bid to steal the Democrats’ thunder, President Bush will deliver a State of the Union address tonight depicting himself as a statesman and setting out the main themes of his 2004 re-election campaign.
The hour-long speech is unlikely to broach much new ground. Instead, it will seek to present the President as a proven, unifying leader, in contrast to the eight Democrats jostling to replace him, fresh from their fierce and divisive battle at the Iowa caucuses.As White House officials privately admit, tonight’s date was carefully picked, giving the President an uninterrupted hour of network prime time to get across his case, stressing an optimistic, positive agenda – in sharp contrast with the Democratic candidates who have been heaping abuse on him and each other in almost equal measure.In his speech, Mr Bush will not dwell on the embarrassing failure to find Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, the prime justification for last March’s invasion – and with good reason. He said it was a modern ship, with the latest in equipment, making it difficult to understand what went wrong.. After the ship is stabilized, they hope to tow the wreck to a nearby dock so divers can enter it.At least 15 rescue ships and small boats responded quickly, most from a nearby Norwegian naval base.