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This isn't the stuff from which stark conclusions can be drawn, I know. In search of more clarity, I called Jim Leach, the former Republican Congressman from Iowa who has long had a reputation as one of Capitol Hill's deepest thinkers...
...skeptical of all future reports that Hillary Clinton is fading. Twice now, after the Iowa caucuses and on the eve of Super Tuesday, Obama has surged in the polls and thrilled the Democratic elites. And his strength in this race is real. Yesterday in Missouri, he drew roughly as many votes as the entire Democratic field - eight candidates - tallied four years ago. But Clinton is just as strong. Her losing effort this year racked up nearly twice as many votes as John Kerry managed in his landslide 2004 primary victory. This is a battle of behemoths, and if Missouri...
...indicative of Obama's strategy overall, gathering everyone, actors, directors, producers, elbow to elbow to elbow with everyone," said David Washington, a senior adviser to the campaign in California. Indeed, Obama has approached organizing in California much in the way he did Iowa - with precinct captains and small groups banding together from the ground up, in addition to the more traditional strategy of phone calls, media hits and advertising...
...Romney and offer each other tips on how best to undermine him: "Like, 'Hey, I saw you hit Mitt on immigration - have you thought about going after him on this issue?" In some cases, the attitude even extends to the top of the campaigns. The night of the Iowa caucuses, after getting a congratulatory call from McCain, Huckabee told the candidate, according to aides: "Now it's your turn to kick his butt...
...Fairly or unfairly, however, race has been injected into the Clinton-Obama contest in the past few weeks. Until the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary, Obama, who is half-white, half-black, pretty much transcended race, winning Iowa, which is 95% white, and placing a close second in New Hampshire, which is 96% white. But in subsequent weeks both campaigns traded charges of race baiting. Obama accused Clinton of politicizing Nevada's Latino vote and Clinton accused Obama of using her and her husband's remarks on civil rights out of context with black voters. Whatever the intentions...