memeorandum: Hillary Clinton leans on ‘relic’ Bill (Nancy Benac/Associated Press)

12:30 PM ET, January 5, 2008

Top Items:

A Campaign Retools to Seek Second Clinton Comeback — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in career-threatening scrapes before, but never quite like the one they face in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, when nothing less than their would-be dynasty will be on the line.

Discussion: The New Republic, Washington Post, The Politico, TPM Election Central, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Political Radar, TIME, New York Observer, THE REACTION, Prairie Weather, On Deadline, BAGnewsNotes, ScrappleFace and No Left Turns

Nancy Benac / Associated Press:

Hillary Clinton leans on ‘relic’ Bill — WASHINGTON - In a presidential race where the Democratic candidates are competing as agents of change, Hillary Rodham Clinton's most reliable campaign prop is something of a political relic — her husband. — The former president was at her side …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Sweetness & Light

Washington Post:

Clinton's Supporters Question Her Strategy — After an unexpectedly thorough defeat in Iowa, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faced a barrage of second-guessing Friday from supporters worried that her campaign strategy could cost her the Democratic nomination. — In a flurry of conference calls throughout …

Discussion: New York Times and Betsy's Page

Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:

TRB Calls the Democratic Race! — A few post-Iowa thoughts: — 1. In his book about the Democratic Leadership Council, “Reinventing Democrats,” Ken Baer recounts how DLC-ites always imagined Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign as a centrist crusade to take the party back from its orthodox liberal wing …

Discussion: JustOneMinute and Matthew Yglesias

Ben Smith / The Politico:
Bill Clinton takes a swipe at media

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Weekly Standard, Captain's Quarters, Neptunus Lex, QandO, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Jules Crittenden, Fausta's blog, PoliGazette, Sister Toldjah, The Trail, Scared Monkeys, Donklephant, Taylor Marsh, THE LIBERAL JOURNAL, Blue Crab Boulevard and THE REACTION

Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
Air Spin One — Hours after Hillary Clinton finished …

Discussion: Redstate, TIME, The Carpetbagger Report and Political Radar

Jay Newton-Small / TIME: Swampland:

Hillary Booed at NH Democratic Party Dinner — If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any bell weather - Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner's last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!”

Discussion: Hotline On Call, Daily Kos, The Caucus, Viking Pundit, protein wisdom, Wizbang, QandO, MyDD, Althouse, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Newsweek, Macsmind, Outside The Beltway, Blue Crab Boulevard and PunditGuy

Matthew Yglesias:

Clinton: Obama's Too Liberal — Hillary Clinton's campaign seems determined to convince Barack Obama's detractors in the blogosphere that he is so a liberal after all: … Progressive record? Heaven forbid! I thought he didn't have experience. — The Tom Edsall article I got …

Discussion: The Mahablog, The Carpetbagger Report, Open Left, D-Day, Sister Toldjah, TalkLeft, Daily Kos, The RBC, Cogitamus, BitsBlog, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Associated Press, MoJoBlog, PoliGazette and Time

Gateway Pundit:

HILLARY BOOED In New Hampshire! — Democrats smell blood. — This is like watching a pack of wild hyenas turn on their matriarch after she gets a bum leg. — There was a feeding frenzy at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Dinner on Friday. — And, the main course was Hillary.

Discussion: Power Line, Washington Wire and 2008Central.net

Marc Ambinder:
The Clinton Counter Attack

Discussion: Rising Hegemon, TPMCafe blogs, The New Republic and Spin Cycle

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

Huckabee Moves to New Hampshire, With Tweaks to His Message — HENNIKER, N.H. — Fresh from his victory in the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee has to be considered a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. But that has not sobered up his distinctive Bible Belt-meets-Borscht Belt act on the stump.

Discussion: MSNBC, Hullabaloo and PoliGazette

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle# Washington D.C. Newspapers:

Our View: Wyoming GOP caucuses futile — On Saturday, a few Republicans from across Wyoming will converge at local county caucuses to pick delegates to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., in September. — Party leaders in the state believed by moving their caucuses …

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, NewsBusters.org and American Thinker

Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com:

Mitt's Divided Strategy — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Desperate to save Mitt Romney's Republican presidential campaign in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, his advisers all wanted to attack Sen. John McCain but were divided about how to do it. — Coming out of his disappointing performance in the Iowa Caucuses …

The Campaign Spot:

With 24 Hours Until Caucusing Ends, The Projected Winner in Wyoming Is... Here's some more on what to expect at tomorrow's Wyoming Republican presidential caucus. — At 9 a.m. local time, Wyoming Republicans will go to 23 county seats for their caucuses. At eleven of those locations …

Discussion: PoliBlog (TM), LewRockwell.com Blog, Stop The ACLU, Reason Magazine and Fred File

New York Times:
McCain May Benefit From Huckabee's Jolt to G.O.P.

Discussion: Washington Post, American Power and Real Clear Politics

Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Stop Lying About Huckabee and Evangelicals!

Discussion: Redstate, Jonathan Martin's Blogs and race42008.com

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of “social unraveling” if Obama loses — (updated below) — Over at National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a “theory” about what might help Obama win in the general election. After noting that Obama will be “the first serious mainstream black contender …

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Shakespeare's Sister

The Corner:
Obama: Ecstasy & Agony

Discussion: QandO, JustOneMinute, Daily Pundit and The Heretik

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

WTF? — Okay, I could come up with a few good snarky lines on this one. But I'll settle for someone just explaining to me what the hell Mike Huckabee's talking about. — TPMer Eric Kleefeld and I were chatting this evening about whether everyone's underestimating Huckabee's chances in this race.

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Washington Monthly, The RBC, protein wisdom, The Sideshow, Outside The Beltway, PoliGazette and BitsBlog

Zogby:

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby New Hampshire Poll: McCain Leads Romney; Clinton Leads Obama as Edwards Remains at 20%... Zogby News Releases

Discussion: TPM Election Central, Talking Points Memo, Ben Smith's Blogs, NewsBusters.org and Spin Cycle

Campaigns & Elections, politics …:

He's Absurdly Likeable. A Favorite of the Faithful. But, Does Mike Huckabee Have a Prayer? — Pick an issue - any issue - being debated in the United States of America as we approach the 2008 elections, and Mike Huckabee can find a way to tell you that it won't matter until we collectively slim down.

Discussion: Unqualified Offerings and Will Wilkinson

Bill Gertz / Washington Times:

Inside the Ring — Inside the Ring — Coughlin sacked — Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, has been fired from his position on the military's Joint Staff. The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work …