WASHINGTON — All eyes may be on Nevada, but the big ticket in town here today was the sold-out (well, it was free but you had to RSVP) forum on the economy at Brookings.
The White House and Congress are separately wrangling over the R-word, and whether a stimulus package is needed to fend off a […]

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Despite reports that Culinary Workers Local 226 will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow morning (see Tim Russert’s unattributed pronouncement on the Today Show this morning), the 60,000-strong union of casino and hotel workers is still undecided.
In fact, no vote has taken place yet. That’s planned for 11 pm EST tonight when the executive committee […]

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CONCORD, N.H. — Downtown at the state capital. The Clinton bus just rolled through. The sky is clear and the air has reached 50 degrees. Expect big turnout, which is what the campaigns are reporting thus far.
Larry David was at an Obama event on the campus of Dartmouth College today, and was a meanie to […]

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CONCORD, H.H. — As I write this, the polls here opening in just a few hours, the signs point to Sen. Clinton treating Nevada like her ultimate firewall. If that’s the case, we can expect 10 days of tough campaigning back home, heavy on the negatives from the Clinton camp. And the Obama team […]

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Overheard at Sen. Hillary Clinton’s huge rally in Manchester.
A national magazine journalist to a Clinton heavy: “Yeah, it’ll eventually flip around, because we need a new narrative.”
This means Obama will start getting a little bad press soon enough, and then they’ll pile on. But will it be soon enough for Clinton?

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Since Thursday’s Iowa caucus, the national media has skipped (or scorned) Nevada’s Jan. 19 caucus, skipping ahead to the South Carolina contest on Jan. 26.
Well, Sen. Barack Obama hasn’t forgotten about us.
As he ordered a hot tea with lemon in New Hampshire today, reporters fired some questions, including this one:
“Q. What’s next after New Hampshire?”
A. […]

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CONCORD — A quick note on New Hampshire voters. Jo and Elliot Mednick of the Salem area told me they get 10 calls a day from campaigns and/or pollsters. Usually they don’t answer, but they said it’s pretty cool when “Gallup” is what reads on the caller ID, so they sometimes pick up. They […]

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Remember, blog readers, the Democrats aren’t the only one holding a caucus on Jan. 19.
Following Romney’s 2nd place showing to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Iowa on Thursday night, his campaign manager held a conference call for reporters this morning to put the best face on what will kindly be described as a disappointing […]

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Sen. Hillary Clinton apparently doesn’t like the caucus process. In her speech last night, she left with a little kick in the shins of the Byzantine process.
From CNN’s transcript:
“You know, there were a lot of people that couldn’t caucus tonight despite the very large turnout. There are a lot of Iowans who are in the […]

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Out of all the Nevada campaigns, Sen. Barack Obama’s was the only one to hold a watch party. Despite skepticism from some campaigns (and some blog headlines) Obama’s campaign made the most of it.
• The place was packed as the results came in.
And in case you doubted a bandwagon effect, as the night wore […]

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