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From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

(JEFFERSON CITY, MO.) - Here on her second stop of a six-rally final day of the campaign, Sarah Palin briefly went off script to question whether a United States senator has the right kind of experience to be president.

Palin set up her remarks with a familiar attack on Barack Obama’s relative newcomer status.

“If you think about it, Barack Obama’s record, what is in his record?” she asked the crowd of over 15,000 who were gathered around the state capitol. “What has he accomplished? He spent about 300 days in the U.S. Senate before becoming a presidential candidate.”

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From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Mike Flathers of Salem, New Hampshire, is the embodiment of the Granite State's culture of engaging in presidential politics as a civic duty. Whenever Mitt Romney campaigns in the Granite State, I've come to look out for the man with the distinctive mustache and Navy baseball cap, who always seems to find a seat in the crowd.

Campaign reporters often complain about having to listen to the same stump speech again and again, but Flathers seems to never tire of Mitt Romney's spiel. A Navy veteran who served on a destroyer in Vietnam, Flathers racks up Romney campaign events like a Deadhead does concerts (he says he's been to 34 events).

I approached Flathers at a stop in Manchester to find out why he devotes so much of his time to politics and what it is he likes so much about Governor Romney.

Click on the video below to watch the interview.

From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

The Romney campaign gave its traveling press corps an early Christmas gift yesterday. Although the size was a little too big, no one complained. It was something we’d all wanted for quite a while, and it did not disappoint.

We got a bus!

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