On the Republican front, John McCain took New Hampshire with 37 percent of the vote. The victory came six months after McCain’s campaign appeared over, when he nearly ran out of money and was forced to lay off staff. McCain managed to beat Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, even though Romney had served as governor in neighboring Massachusetts and had outspent McCain on television ads by a two-to-one margin.

John McCain: “I am grateful beyond expression at the prospect that I might serve (America) a little while longer. That gratitude imposes on me the responsibility to do nothing in this campaign that would make our country’s
problems harder to solve or that would cause Americans to despair that a candidate for the highest office in the land would think so little of the honor that he would put his own interest before theirs. I take that responsibility as my most solemn trust.”

Mitt Romney, who also placed second in Iowa, is now setting his eyes on Michigan, the state where he was born and where his father once served as governor. Republicans in Michigan holds their primary on January 15.

Mitt Romney: “I will strengthen America as your president, and when I come back here next November I will fight across this nation onto Michigan and South
Carolina and Florida and Nevada and states after that.”

Rounding out the Republican race: Mike Huckabee placed third. Rudolph Giuliani narrowly beat Ron Paul for fourth place. And Fred Thompson came in a distant sixth.