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President Obama continues to hold a substantial lead over Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, despite the presumptive Republican nominee's heavy campaigning in the state.

The WMUR/Granite State Poll shows Obama with a nine-point lead over Romney, pulling more than half â€" 51 percent â€" of New Hampshire voters. Romney trails as the choice of 42 percent of those surveyed.

Romney plans to return to the state Tuesday night for a prime-time address in which he is expected to pivot his campaign to a general election showdown with President Obama. But despite owning a house in the state, governing neighbor Massachusetts, and campaigning there heavily to secure a win in January's primary, the presumptive GOP nominee has made little headway against the president.

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