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Take look at what the candidates have raised and their powerful donors. For the first time in the history of Presidential politics the candidates are expected to raise over 1 Billion dollars. The stakes are high in this race. Senator Hillary Clinton has already announced that her campaign has raised over 100 million to date.

It appears that Senator Clinton's war machine wants her to be tough down the strectch. She continued to invoke Senater Barack Obama's name when she was asked questions about her vote to authorize the war in Iraq. When she was asked questions about personal mistakes she accused the Bush Administration of lying to the American people. In this situation the buck stops on the laps of all of her political enemies. She also blamed Obama's camp for the comment she made about Martin Luther King.

The latest Fox News Opinion Dynamics Poll shows McCain and Obama up with a sizable lead in NH of likely Republican and Democrat voters. Take a look: Complete Report: http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/FOX_NH-3_JAN_web.pdf

Excerpt: TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGNS Mon Jan 07 2008 09:46:28 ET Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!Source Drudge Report

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama, who won the Iowa caucuses, leads Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire by 12 percentage points among likely voters in the Jan. 8 Democratic presidential primary, according to an American Research Group Inc. poll.

When all is said and done, the question would have to be, did Clinton stop the momentum of Barack Obama since Iowa? Primary night will have be a better indicator, but unfortunately there were scene of desparation on the part of Clinton. There were no real specifics in her argument and Obama did well enough in the debate to keep charging towards victory.

The news media in the Granite State of New Hampshire have been covering the New Hampshire Primary from stump speech to stump speech. There is no doubt that this is one of the most thrilling elections in recent memory on both the Republican and Democratic side. eNews References: Amherst Citizen Bedford Bulletin Bedford Journal Neighbourhood News Berlin Reporter Bow Times Eagle Times Weekly Flea Colebrook Chronicle News and Sentinel Northern New Hampshire Magazine Concord Mirror Concord Monitor Conway Daily Sun Mountain Ear Derry News Dover Community News Foster's Daily Democrat MSNBC Foster's Daily Democrat New Hampshire Exeter News Letter MSNBC...

Senator Hillary Clinton has hit the ground on the attack, but her problem is 40% percent of New Hampshire voters are independent and nonaligned. The have been packing into everyone of Obama’s events at this point. And if this movement continues, Clinton loses big in this state.

Iowa has given Obama’s campaign the viability it needed to go national and raise the crucial funds needed. More and more Democrats will begin to believe in the electability of a candidate who proposed a dramatic realigning of the red/blue state dynamic. Obama speech indicated that voters disappointed with the war in Iraq, ethics in government, energy and corporate greed will vote in his corner.

In the United States of America an Afro-American candidate has won in a state that is 95% white based on his message of uniting the country around core middle class values. The numbers of participants in the Caucuses around Iowa indicated people are captivated about the message of changing politics as we know it.

Hillary Clinton is showing third according to the Zogby/Reuters/C-Span poll. If Hillary Clinton pulls in third in this race then she has to face the possibility of going into New Hampshire to face Obama with a great deal of momentum or Edwards from possible victors in Iowa.

Here is what the media is saying in Iowa: Ackley World Journal Dallas County News Akron Hometowner Albia Newspapers Albia Union Republican Monroe County News Algona Upper Des Moines Reminder Weekend Express Butler County Tribune Journal Altoona Herald Mitchellville Index Ames Tribune Iowa State Daily Story County Advertiser Atlantic News-Telegraph KJAN Audubon County Advocate Journal Bedford Times-Press Belle Plaine Union Belmond Independent MSNBC Quad City Times South Benton Star-Press Bloomfield Democrat Boone News Republican Britt News Tribune Hawk Eye MSNBC Hawk Eye Carroll Today Cedar Rapids Gazette KCRG KGAN WMT Daily Iowegian Chariton Herald Patriot Chariton Leader Chariton Newspapers Charles...

Governor Mitt Romney has put up issues oriented ads criticising Senator John McCain and Governor Mike Huckabee’s record on a whole hose of issues around immigration, taxes and conservatisim. Romney has for the most part stayed on message and has not went negative in this race. He has contrasted his point of view with his opponents point of view albeit with a lot of personal assets to do it with. Both Huckabee and McCain has not responded in-kind. Both campaigns have limited resources for a long national race at this point. This is why it is not surprising that McCain’s...

Edwards have been receiving a lot of political coverage of late and analysts have speculated that he could possibly sneak away with the race in Iowa. Edwards has injected a tough populist them in recent weeks and has even clashed with the Obama camp on issues concerning trade, Iraq and even education. Clinton has refrained from being too negative in recent days and have been content to see Edwards and Obama go at it as all of the candidates make their closing arguments. One thing is certain, all of the candidates have to campaign up until the closing hours of...

Two polls show Senator Clinton and Governor Huckabee with commanding leads in Iowa. The polls show Obama and Romney’s leads slipping significantly in the closing weeks before the Iowa Caucus. All of the candidates have increased their attacks in recent days.

Very tragic news out of Pakistan. The latest news have the potential of setting the entire country in an uproar and political unrest.

For the first times in this race I’ve heard a candidate for the White House state that 911 was the United States’ fault? Paul excuses Osama Bin Laden in his theory that if we didn’t have troops overseas the ruthless thugs would not have attacked us. Ron Paul had to defend himself several times with I might have said that, but I’m not campaigning on it.

Obama has expressed the need to reach out to Independents and Republicans on a whole host of issues as well as putting thinkers outside of the liberal policy groups in his administration. He has demonstrated the ability to talk tough to groups like the teacher’s union on merit pay, Afro-Americans on personal responsibility, and automakers about fuel efficiency standards and he will also have to push back the excesses of the liberal wish list if he becomes president.

Former President Bill Clinton has led the charge from the Democratic establishment that the Junior Senator from Illinois is not experienced enough to be the leader of the free world. They have also raised questions in the media about his Muslim ties and an early admission that he used cocaine in his teen years to boot.

Bill Clinton didn’t deny Charlie Rose’s assessment that he was angry at Clinton’s advisors over her lackluster performance in Iowa and he seemed to know the tid bits of every argument presented in the media against her candidacy. It was funny to hear his assessment of the much reported Kindergarten Debacle. It seemed like Washington swooped down and overwhelmed the Board at the Des Moines Register.