However, on both occasions when it looked like the tourists would be walked over and left for dead - they always came storming back in the second half to deny any major thumping.

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Left for dead just a few months ago, there seems to be a zip in his step, if not in Iowa, then certainly in New Hampshire, where polls show him contending for at least second place.

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