CONWAY — It’s our turn now.
The coldest Iowa Caucus on record — minus 10 degrees with wind chills as low as minus 40 Monday — is in the rearview mirror and New Hampshire becomes the center of the political universe with its first-in-the-nation Presidential Primary next Tuesday.
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