Clinton looks to youth for New Hampshire rebound

By Ellen Wulfhorst

NASHUA, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, after losing the youth vote to Barack Obama in Iowa, turned her attention to young voters in New Hampshire on Sunday.

Young voters turned out in large numbers in Iowa, helping push Obama to victory in the nation's first presidential nominating contest there last Thursday, while a large swath of Clinton's support came from older voters, research showed.

Clinton, a New York senator once seen as the Democratic front-runner but who came in third in Iowa after Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, is under enormous pressure to regain political momentum ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.

Obama has pulled into a virtual dead heat with Clinton in New Hampshire, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.

New Hampshire holds the second of the state-by-state contests to nominate Republican and Democratic candidates to compete in the November election to succeed President George W. Bush.

Taking newfound aim at young voters, Clinton told supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, she wanted to help give "every generation, especially young Americans, a chance to live their own dream and hopes."

By contrast, in Iowa, Clinton scarcely mentioned young voters directly in her campaign stump speeches.

In Nashua, accompanied by her 27-year-old daughter, Chelsea, she said: "When I think about the world that awaits her and all of the young people who are here, I want to be sure that our country keeps faith with their dreams, that we can deliver the kind of possibilities that will give each of you the chance to live out your own hopes."