LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee came to the hometown of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell and picked up an endorsement yesterday from one of his sons.

Jerry Falwell Jr. said after Huckabee spoke at a Liberty University convocation that he would back the former Arkansas governor for president. Falwell became chancellor of the school after his father died in May.

"He's my choice," Falwell said.

Huckabee, a Baptist minister, told some 8,000 students that "I think there are people all over America praying for me." A recent Washington Post-ABC News survey shows him in second place in Iowa, closing on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

New Hampshire poll: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has the support of 34 percent of Granite State Democrats, compared with 22 percent for Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, and 15 percent for ex-Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.

On the Republican side, Romney was supported by 34 percent, compared with 20 percent for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and 13 percent for Arizona Sen. John McCain. The Suffolk University poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.65 percentage points.

Clinton: The New York senator accused Obama, her leading Democratic rival, of flinching from the effort to provide health care for all Americans. "I am not afraid of the Republican attacks" on the subject, she said yesterday.

She criticized Obama's health care plan for failing to provide universal coverage. Obama told reporters that while Clinton's plan nominally requires coverage for all, "she hasn't told anybody how she would enforce this mandate."

Romney: A Republican group that backs abortion rights will start an ad campaign portraying the former Massachusetts governor as a flip-flopper, citing a 2002 questionnaire endorsing abortion rights.

Romney's campaign said the ads were an attempt to blur his anti-abortion position and said the group supports Giuliani.