When you're done here, be sure and check out the debut of my colleague, Dean Spiliotes, in the New Hampshire blogosphere. Spiliotes was doing this when Cosmo was still watching first-run Seinfeld episodes, and you can expect the usual thoughtfulness at his new home.
With, of course, just a little bit of attitude.
For instance, today Spiliotes flies in the face of the CW and calls the Clinton campaign to task for running a general election campaign during a primary:
Her campaign must know the danger of eschewing intra-party
dialogue in the primaries for a candidacy tailored to the more centrist
and incremental preferences of the general electorate. Clinton’s
decision to increasingly highlight her ability to work within the
current political system, rather than to change it, may not resonate
with Democratic primary voters eager for a more substantial recasting
of our national politics.
Here's my question: Do Democratic primary voters in the Granite State still have the urge for the upset?
After all, for the last two cycles New Hampshire was where insurgent campaigns went to die. New Hampshire all but ended Bill Bradley's campaign in 2000, and did the same to Howard Dean in 2004.
(Second thoughts: Of course one could argue that Barack Obama is a better candidate than Dean or Bradley was. He's got twelve weeks to prove that, at any rate.)
