Candidates focus on New Hampshire

Mitt Romney supporters cheer as Romney exits a town-hall meeting in Nashua, N.H.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting in Salem, N.H.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting in Salem, N.H.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton canvasses in a Manchester, N.H., neighborhood.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns in Nashua, N.H.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Sen. Barack Obama gives a speech at the Palace Theater in Manchester, N.H., ahead of Tuesday’s primary.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

A Secret Service agent, right, watches over Sen. Barack Obama as he leaves the Palace Theater in Manchester, N.H., after delivering a speech Sunday morning.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Democratic presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina takes a moment with his wife, Elizabeth, during a healthcare forum held at the Franco-American Centre in Manchester, N.H.  (Ann Johansson / For The Times)

GOP candidates John McCain, Fred Thompson, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Rudolph W. Giuliani, from left, take the stage before a sharp and tense debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. The setting was more informal and conversational than others in the last year, with candidates sitting at tables instead of standing at lecterns.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

GOP candidates leave the stage and Democrats step up for the St. Anselm College debate. Barack Obama is behind Hillary Rodham Clinton, far right, and John McCain is behind him; John Edwards faces Mitt Romney, far left, and Rudolph W. Giuliani. In the Democrats’ debate — which was, like the Republicans’, 90 minutes long — Clinton was the aggressor and Obama wore a figurative bull’s-eye.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

In grand New Hampshire tradition, supporters of different campaigns assemble outside St. Anselm College in Manchester for the presidential debates.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Hundreds of people line up in front of Nashua High School for a chance to see Obama at a rally this morning.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Darren Garnick holds up his 5-month-old, “Obama”-bib-wearing daughter, Dahlia, at the Nashua High School rally.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Obama supporters at the Nashua High rally hold up a banner with the number of days to New Hampshire’s Tuesday primary.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Framed through the stars of a large U.S. flag, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds an “Ask Mitt Anything” rally at Pinkertown Academy in Derry, N.H., today.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Romney throws a snowball at children sledding in the backyard of a house that he was visiting in Bedford, N.H., today.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

New Hampshire residents listen to Romney speak at a crowded coffeehouse in Hampstead today.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Romney and his wife, Ann, leave a home after attending a party in Bedford, N.H.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with daughter Chelsea, campaigns at Merrimack Valley High School in New Hampshire on Friday.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Clinton arrives to campaign at the Bagelry in Durham, N.H., on Friday.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

People gather outside the Bagelry in Durham to see and snap photos of Clinton on Friday.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Clinton campaigns at the Bagelry in Durham, N.H., on Friday.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a Republican presidential candidate, is surrounded by the media after a town hall meeting today in Peterborough, N.H.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

McCain speaks at a town hall meeting today in Peterborough, N.H.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

McCain, with his wife, Cindy, greets supporters before boarding his campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, after a town hall meeting today in Peterborough, N.H.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)