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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters)-Mitt Romney is poised to win a second straight battle in the race for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination on Tuesday but it remains to be seen whether the anticipated victory in New Hampshire will be big enough to put to rest doubts about his candidacy. “
The former head of the investment companies managed a large enough lead in the polls in New Hampshire contest despite the rival attack 11-hour fierce painting himself as a corporate raider who like heartless cut jobs.
Romney’s stint as Governor of Massachusetts relative moderate neighbors have also caused many conservative Republican voters to look at him skeptically.