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From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Barack Obama said Hillary Clinton looked “in her element” at last night’s debate, which he described as a “roll out of the Republican’s campaign” against him in November.

“I have to say Senator Clinton looked in her element,” Obama said. “She was taking every opportunity to get a dig in there. That’s alright. That’s her right. That’s her right to kind of twist the knife a little bit.”

While not completely ruling it out, Obama seemed disinclined to participate in another debate with Clinton before the North Carolina primary on May 6th.

“We had agreed earlier to a debate, Senator Clinton declined that,” he said. “We’ve now had 21 [debates], and look, the previous three, we did very well, so it’s not as if we don't know how to do these things.”

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From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

WALLINGFORD, PA. -- Barack Obama’s six-day bus tour has been chock-full of local stops through out the state, where he has had personal interactions with voters. However, during a stop at the Italian Market in Philadelphia, Obama had several testy run-ins with a man who wanted to take a picture with the senator.

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From CBS News' Aaron Lewis:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While waiting out a layover at Ronald Reagan National Airport this morning, a fellow producer pointed it out to me:

Rudy Giuliani for President t-shirts - CLEARANCE $2.99.

The display was sitting at the front of a souvenir store in Terminal C.

At only three bucks a pop, these shirts printed with Hizzoner's likeness will surely be priceless in the eyes of some obscure political memorabilia nut 20 years from now.

I couldn't help but wonder, though: with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shirts prominently on display, it's only a matter of time before one of them gets the clearance rack treatment, too...

If you've visited this site before, you know that eight CBS News staffers have spent the last four months embedded with the major presidential campaigns. Traveling by bus, plane, rental car, and sometimes helicopter, these off-air reporters, armed with camcorders and laptops, captured the candidates from a unique perspective seldom seen in past races.

When the candidates left the stage, and the network pool cameras were turned off, our team kept rolling, recording intimate, unguarded, and often humorous moments with the White House hopefuls, the best of which is compiled below.

And check out our full "Scenes From The Road" video library for more.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- CBS News' John Bentley, who was embedded with the Fred Thompson campaign until yesterday, filed this Web-exclusive report on Thompson's exit from the White House race:

Joining David Letterman on the "Late Show," John Edwards spoke about the fireworks between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at Monday's South Carolina Democratic debate.

"What I was trying to do was represent the grownup wing of the Democratic party," Edwards said.

Letterman later asked the famously well-coiffed Edwards if he could mess up his hair.

"Has it ever been messed up?" Letterman asked.

Watch the video below to see what happened next:

From CBS News Producer Jennifer Yuille:

MANCHESTER, N.H.: Mitt Romney reiterated his mantra that Washington is broken and that he is the Republican candidate for change in an interview with CBS News Anchor Katie Couric.

He continued to portray Arizona Senator John McCain as a Washington insider, and said that if McCain wins the Republican nomination, Senator Barack Obama would win the election in a landslide.

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With the presidential nomination process concluding in less than one month, candidates are trailed by dozens of media outlets.

CBS News' Fernando Suarez, who's been on the trail with Hillary Clinton since October, takes you behind the scenes of covering a presidential campaign in this web-exclusive video.

From CBS News' Aaron Lewis

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Elizabeth Edwards dropped by the field office in Iowa City this afternoon and made some last minute phone calls to mobilize support for her husband at tonight's caucuses.

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From CBS News' John Bentley:

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA -- As the rumors swirl about Fred Thompson possibly dropping out of the race, his first event on the day of the Iowa caucuses was packed with over 200 enthusiastic supporters.

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