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Kerry solid as granite in New Hampshire 'l CHARLES KRUPAASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Sen. John Kerry at Manchester, N.H., polling place. ing money just as fast as raising it and he will keep up the pricey pace with his new strategy. Kerry also pledged to compete everywhere, but his twin victo-ries should fuel the drive.

An AP analysis of the delegate count showed Kerry winning 14 delegates and Dean capturing eight, while Edwards and Clark appeared to finish below the 15 percent vote threshold needed to win any delegates. His eye warily cast toward the fall, Bush planned a trip to New Hampshire to counter criticism heaped his way during the Democratic race. He used a similar tactic after Iowa's caucuses, scheduling his State of the Union address one day after that contest. It has been a topsy-turvy race, with Dean leading New Hampshire polls by 25 percentage points when the year began, Kerry seizing a similar lead after Iowa and Dean gaining a bit of ground after an llth-hour political overhaul. In a race that has been hard on front-runners, Kerry said he is ready for the role.

"I've been in public life for a long time, and I have been in tough races before and have been scrutinized," he said. "I'm ready to lead our party to victory." But the front-runner's mantle may prove as weighty as it was for Dean. Rivals were already sharpening their knives, Republicans calling him a Massachusetts liberal and Democrats accusing him of equivocating on the Iraq war and accomplishing little in the Senate. back from brink toring the ebb and flow of possible votes, precinct by precinct. Their job is to move resources direct-mail pieces, phone-bank calls, door-to-door canvassers, sometimes the candi-date himself to their highest target of opportunity.

While Kerry's success had a number of parents, many within the campaign credit the wiry, balding Whouley 44, with making the on-the-ground calls that helped sew up Iowa. It was Whouley, for example, who came up with Kerry's stunt of hopscotching around the state in a helicopter (and occasionally piloting it) to maximize the number of his personal By Ron Fournier AP Political Writer MANCHESTER, N.H. John Kerry overpowered Howard Dean to win New Hampshire's primary Tuesday, scoring a second-straight campaign victory to establish the four-term senator as the Democratic Party's presidential front-runner. "It's an enormous victory, a huge turnaround," Kerry told The Associated Press. "We were written off for months, and plugged on and showed people the determination we have to defeat President Bush." Sen.

John Edwards of North Carolina and retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark were in a distant race for third. Sen. Joe Lieber-man of Connecticut was in fifth place, his candidacy in peril. After trooping through coffee shops, country stores and livings rooms of Iowa and New Hampshire, the candidates now move to the cold realities of a national campaign airport rallies and multimillion-dollar ad buys in seven state holding contests next Tuesday.

With 70 percent of the precincts reporting, Kerry had 39 percent, Dean had 25 percent, Clark 13 percent, Edwards 12 percent, and Lieberman 9 percent. Dean, the former five-term governor of Vermont, lost by double-digits less than he needed for a complete rebound or to erase doubts about his viability. He did manage about twice as many votes as either Edwards or Clark, and found solace in gaining ground since his disastarous third-place finish in Iowa. Massachusetts By Paul Farhi Die Washington Post MANCHESTER, N.H. Back in the bad old days of Sen.

John Kerry's presidential campaign about two months ago that is his newly appointed campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, put out a distress call to an old friend from Boston. Reluctantly Michael Whouley an-sweredit. With the Massachusetts senator falling in the polls and running out of money, Cahill had an important assignment for Whouley: Move to Des Moines and overhaul Kerry's field operations in the Iowa, whose caucuses were shaping up as a po .1 fc. Looking toward next week, Dean insisted he will "play to win in every single state," overruling aides who urged a more cautious approach. The former Vermont governor plans to compete in South Carolina, Missouri, New Mexico and Arizona, which holds contests next Tuesday; Michigan and Washington state four days later; and Wisconsin, with its contest Feb.

17. Several Dean advisers had urged him to pick fewer targets, cherrypicking states to conserve resources, but he vetoed the strategy, insisting that his campaign was muscular enough to compete nationally Dean has raised more than $200,000 in the 24 hours before the primary but he has been spend brought Kerry Whouley the voters keep their eyes on the candidate, strategists like Whouley are shuttered away in "war rooms," constantly moni 7 Stewart Prosecutors: Martha lied By Erin McClam Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Martha Stewart sold stock based on "a secret tip" that no one else had, then told an avalanche of lies to save her reputation and enormous fortune, prosecutors said Tuesday as they laid out their case against the homemaking queen. Stewart's attorney insisted the case was based on "speculation, surmise and guesswork" and suggested the government's pursuit of the domestic style-setter was reminiscent of George Orwell's Big Brother novel "1984." The jury of eight women and four men listened to three hours of opening statements that outlined starkly different portrayals of Stewart's sale of nearly 4,000 shares of biotechnology company ImClone Systems on Dec. 27, 2001. The government contends Stewart, on her way to a va: cation in Mexico, was tipped that ImClone founder Sam Waksal was trying to dump his shares, then ordered the sale of her own stock.

Federal prosecutor Karen Patton Seymour said Stewart then conspired with her stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, to tell a series of cover-up lies about the sale. "The reason that Martha Stewart dumped her shares is because she was told a secret," Seymour said. "A secret tip that no other in- vestors in ImClone had." Stewart was almost motionless as the arguments unfold ed in front of her, resting her chin on her hand and occasionally tapping an index finger against her lips. "It looks like we are going to li finish a solid sec- AN ENORMOUS saidt)ean, who with Kerry VICTORY, A is flush with uiipc monevandsuP-HUbt port needed to wage a lengthy campaign. Edwards, who Sen.

John Kerry finished a sur-On New Hampshire prise second in win Iowa, predicted he would finish in the double digits, an improvement over his standing in polls before Iowa. He's staking his candidacy on South Carolina, a centerpiece of next week's contests. "Beyond South Carolina, I don't want to make any predictions," he said. political sharpie tential last stand for Kerry And so Whouley the semi-reclusive Mr. Fix-It of Democratic presidential hopefuls stripped off the coat of one of his $1,500 suits and went to work.

Kerry's stunning victory in Iowa burnished the reputation of a blunt-spoken but press-shy operative whom Kerry has referred to as "the magical Michael Whouley" Little known outside Democratic political circles, Whouley (pronounced Hoo-lee) is a Boston-based strategist who specializes in the unglamorous work of analyzing voting patterns and identifying a candi- date's pockets of strength and weakness. While the media and.