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Republican primary voters in New Hampshire say it's natural to be attracted to a new face. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty could be among the beneficiaries of that phenomenon if Mr. Romney falters.
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, is participating in candidates forums in New Hampshire as another presidential hopeful. He is among the favorites of social-issues conservatives.
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Associated Press photographs Polls in New Hampshire show former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the man to beat in the first-in-the-nation Republican primary, despite the reservations of some grass-roots activists in the Granite State.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, Maine Republican, likely will face re-election challenges for working with Democrats. But she can make key alliances with tea party activists and point to her record for fiscal conservatism.
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Associated Press White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," called the material seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan “one of the great achievements in the history of intelligence.” He deflected questions about the role enhanced interrogation played in the raid.
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Conservative activists are pressing Senate Republican leaders to tap Sen. Jim DeMint for an open seat on the Finance Committee. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the White House Situation Room on May 1.
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Yemeni children, lifted by anti-government protesters, flash the victory sign during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, May 8, 2011. The Arabic on their sunglasses says," Leave." (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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A Pakistani woman looks at an army soldier standing guard near the house of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, May 8, 2011. Bin Laden was killed by a helicopter-borne U.S. military force on Monday in the fortresslike compound on the outskirts of the city. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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An Afghan border policeman fires on Taliban fighters hidden in the Traffic Department building, where smoke rises from the rooftop, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 8, 2011. The Taliban unleashed a major assault Saturday on government buildings throughout Kandahar, Afghanistan's main southern city, an attack that cast doubt on how successful the U.S.-led coalition has been in its nearly yearlong military campaign to establish security and stability in the former Taliban stronghold. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Syrian anti-government protesters shout slogans as they gather in the coastal town of Banias, Syria, on Friday, May 6, 2011, in this image taken by a citizen journalist with a cellphone camera and acquired by the AP. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is shown in a video released by the Department of Defense on Saturday, May 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)
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Supporters of the Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami, listen to their leaders during a rally to condemn the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the U.S. for violating Pakistan's sovereignty in an operation to kill Bin Laden, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday, May 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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** FILE ** In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released on Saturday, May 7, 2011, by the U.S. Department of Defense, a man whom the American government identified as Osama bin Laden watches television with an image of President Obama on the screen. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. troops. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Defense)
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In this undated image taken from video provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, a man who the American government says is Osama bin Laden watches television in a video released on Saturday, May 7, 2011. The videos show bin Laden watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist videos. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)
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FILE - This May 3, 2011 file photo shows a view of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the day after a U.S. military raid that ended with the death of the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Holed up in the compound, bin Laden was scheming how to hit the United States hard again, according to newly uncovered documents that show al-Qaida plans for derailing an American train on the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed, File)
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In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, taken on Friday, May 6, 2011, Syrian anti-government protesters carry a banner that reads in Arabic:"the security services has become out of laws and must be tried," during a rally in the central city of Homs, Syria. Syrian tanks rolled into Banias, a Mediterranean coastal town on Saturday May 7, 2011 in an escalating crackdown by President Bashar Assad, just a day after clashes with anti-government protesters that left tens of people dead nationwide, activists said. (AP Photo)
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President Obama addresses military personnel who recently returned from Afghanistan on Friday, May 6, 2011, at Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama talks with U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. McRaven, who as commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) had operational control of the mission to get Osama bin Laden, Friday, May 6, 2011, at Campbell Army Airfield in Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
