‘Comeback Kids’ back on winning trail

IN THE land of comebacks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain revived their sagging campaigns on Tuesday night and catapulted the Democratic and Republican presidential races into a surprise state of chaos.

Neither could afford to lose New Hampshire and suddenly, the fallen front-runners look like winners again.

Ms Clinton defied campaign-closing polls and the expectations of her own advisers to pull out a narrow victory over Illinois senator Barack Obama, the self-styled agent of change bidding to be the nation’s first black president. She won with a last-minute show of emotion and pointed criticism of Mr Obama, the harshest attacks coming from her husband Bill.