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A supporter of President-elect Barack Obama's campaign is organizing various volunteer activities in preparation for the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.

Concord resident Kris Schultz held a "snacks and Barack" meeting this past weekend to discuss volunteer opportunities for the next week.

A former reporter who covered the New Hampshire primary for NBC has been hired as a White House reporter for the website Real Clear Politics.

Mike Memoli worked in the Granite State during the presidential primary and then went on to cover former President Bill Clinton and Vice President-elect Joe Biden during the general election for NBC. During the campaign, Memoli wrote for various NBC websites and shot footage for the network.

Mayor Frank Guinta

Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta will deliver a political speech to a group of Republicans in central New Hampshire, PolitickerNH.com has learned.
 
Guinta will be speaking in late February at the Pemi-Baker Valley Republican Club Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner. 

Guinta's name is often mentioned as a possible statewide candidate and Guinta made similar speeches in the spring of 2008 when he was considering running for governor.

The New Hampshire House Republican Alliance announced last week that it has elected two new co-chairs for the upcoming legislative session.

The group of conservative Republicans said that state Rep. Nancy Elliot (R-Merrimack) was re-elected as co-chair and state Reps. Robert Mead (R-Mount Vernon) and William O'Brien (R-Mount Vernon) were also elected co-chairs of the group.

Good morning New Hampshire, here is your Wake-Up Call. Each morning PolitickerNH.com sifts through the day's news and commentary to find the stories you need to read. We scour the web for New Hampshire's top political stories to pull together the important headlines in one place. Like the Wake-Up Call? Sign up to have it emailed to your laptop, Blackberry or phone. It's free and easy!

Below is the collection of various lists PolitickerNH.com has developed over the past week.

Another county that moved toward the Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s was Carroll County. By the end of the ‘70s, Carroll was still strongly Republican, but the county had lost half of its GOP tilt.

The year 2008 brought many fun memories for New Hampshire political junkies. From Hillary's tear in Portsmouth to the Gary Dodds-Leland Eisenberg showdown to even watching House Speaker Norelli change out disloyal committee chairs in December. And let's not forget one of the more interesting U.S. Senate races the state has seen in 30 years. But putting aside a list of the more interesting events, let's examine a different question: what 2008 event has most political impact on 2009?

In 2008, Granite Staters saw a presidential candidate cry on television, the defeat of an incumbent United States senator and Democrats become the majority party in a state that was once considered a bedrock of Republicanism.

All of these stories and more help make up PolitickerNH.com's top ten political stories of 2008.