I ended up going with Joe to the event which was so big — they expected 1,500 and got more than 3,000 – the campaign had to open up a second gymnasium where the overflow crowd watched on a hastily set-up monster tv screen. “We needed a bigger boat,” Obama joked, taking the stage, promising to shake hands with those in the …

My colleague Nancy Gibbs and I* next went to Durham to await Hillary Clinton at an event she had scheduled for undecided voters. The venue was a little restaurant called the Bagelry, which could hold about 50 people. There were more reporters and camera crews there than voters–and the voters included some people who told us this was …

I had planned to attend his rally at 10 a.m. at a Nashua high school, but can’t get anywhere near it. Traffic is quite literally backed up for miles. The parking lot was full an hour before the event, and people were standing in line in the snow. Joe is there, so he can tell us what it was like inside.

In this week’s issue of dead-tree TIME, I take a look about New Hampshire’s much talked-about “undeclared” voters and discover … they are Democrats.

Those words, spoken by Bill Clinton, sum up the enormous challenge facing Hillary Clinton as she tries to halt Barack Obama’s Iowa momentum in New Hampshire. Five days is a blink of an eye; ten days a languorous stroll by comparison. She needs to change the narrative, give voters in New Hampshire a reason to doubt the wisdom of giving the …

You could tell things were different the instant he came to the back of the bus. Always a bit of a wisecracker, McCain was positively giddy, bouncing in his seat and miming a boxing stance at the mere mention of Mitt Romney. Asked about the spin coming out of Romney’s campaign, that people voted for Huckabee “on their emotions,” rather …

I have a piece on John McCain and the improbable fact that he just might be on the verge of becoming the GOP frontrunner again.

The good news: When the Clinton press plane landed at 4 a.m. this morning in Manchester, the campaign had arranged for plenty of cars for hire to take us to our hotels.

Bad news: The drivers (not the campaign) charged us $150 apiece for a 10-minute ride.

NOTE TO HIGH SHERIFFS: I’ve got a receipt.

is making it pretty clear that things are about to get a lot rougher.