Politico.com is reporting this important bit of Nevada news:
“(A) loss in New Hampshire, coupled with Obama’s presumed strength in South Carolina, could leave Clinton without a safe harbor to catch her breath before Feb. 5. Her aides also are pessimistic about winning the support of the powerful Culinary Workers union in Nevada — a crucial […]

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SALEM, N.H. — Via Ben Smith at Sun partner Politico, Obama has surged to a 10 point lead in the closely watched CNN/WMUR poll here. The same poll yesterday showed a tight race, but the the public is now tuned in and overnight Obama opened a huge lead, which matches other polls from […]

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This Washington Post story is fascinating for a number of reasons. It details how perturbed Clinton supporters in New Hampshire are with the rise of Obama.
The subtext is this: Who are these people? And where do they come from?

It’s a very New England thing I can testify to. For instance, my parents moved […]

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CONCORD — Note Politico’s Ben Smith account of a Saturday Clinton event at which she took questions for 1 hour 50 minutes. This is astounding, especially for a campaign that was so tightly controlled in Iowa, as well as New Hampshire, before this weekend.
As Smith and others note, she’s great at this format because […]

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When in Iowa in November I met a guy at an Obama event named Jerry David Flusche, who works for a wind power company and seemed like a really cool guy.
Like most Nevada Democrats, he’d never caucused before. After seeing Obama in Fairfield, Iowa, the funkiest town in the entire state, he decided to caucus […]

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Ben Smith of Sun partner Politico writes on his blog that he got an early look at the CNN/WMUR poll taken Jan. 4 and 5, and it shows a dead heat, with very little bounce out of Iowa for Obama.

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CONCORD, N.H. — Two new New Hampshire polls show the Iowa results are spilling over into New Hampshire: American Research Group gives Illinois Sen. Barack Obama a 12 point lead, while Rasmussen paints a 10 point spread.   Neither is the Gallup for accuracy, but it shows the movement.
On the ground, the polls feel right. Obama is […]

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CONCORD, N.H. — I’ve just returned from the 100 Club dinner in Milford, N.H., which is sort of like New Hampshire’s version of Iowa’s pre-caucus Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, a fundraiser beauty pageant.
Sen. Hillary Clinton had a big crowd there, but the event turned into a rally for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. His crowd rushed […]

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CONCORD, N.H. — I just picked up a flier for an event for Sen. John McCain here Saturday.
Special guest: Wilford Brimley.
For a guy battling the idea that he’s too old to be president, oatmeal salesman Brimley, who’s looked 75 years old for the past 25 years, is a curious choice as your surrogate.

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Some overnight analysis.
Peter Wallsten in the LA Times crunches the numbers.
The turnout was 80 percent larger than 2004’s big turnout.
Wallsten: “Long viewed as an insular process dominated by longtime political activists, Thursday’s first-in-the-nation voting event of the 2008 campaign turned out to be a forum for unaffiliated voters and first-time participants to say they […]

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