Manchester, N.H.

As caucusgoers gathered Tuesday night in Iowa, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign here tries to maintain its focus on the first in the nation New Hampshire primary. In the campaign office on Elm Street, a cadre of young, college-aged volunteers works the phones and snacks on pizza. Except for the communal television which is tuned to Fox News to check in on Iowa, and which only attracts the scattered attention of a few staffers, work goes on as usual.

Tom Rath, attorney general of New Hampshire over three decades ago and a senior Romney adviser, points to a Suffolk University poll released Tuesday morning, which showed Romney widening his lead in New Hampshire to 43 percent, over Ron Paul with 16 percent and Jon Huntsman at 10 percent. “I think our vote is firming [up] here,” says Rath.