Dante Scala Quotations

When a poorly known candidate emerges as the alternative to the front-runner in Iowa, that gives the poorly known alternative a bump here. What happens in New Hampshire in the week between the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary is it becomes a two-man race, and that is the way the story is told.

If he brings Bush down below 40 percent and if Forbes could somehow get into the low 30s and make the margin single-digits, then Forbes gets more attention than he might otherwise. A lot of people here have pretty much dismissed him.

A lot of Democratic elites are waiting for Hillary Clinton to decide,

There are a good number of Republicans in New Hampshire who wonder what happened to their party.

The basic belief of New Hampshire is: Hold the primary, and they will come. And that's what's happening so far.

She can always say that she's following the dictates of the law and doing her duty as attorney general. And it's clearly a great honor to argue a case in front of this court.

I don't see any political downside to this.

The numbers speak for themselves. And the numbers speak in a very good way.

Voters who are for McCain now in New Hampshire are not going to turn away from McCain because he did poorly in Iowa because there's no expectation for McCain in Iowa.

Bill Richardson is something of a blank slate to New Hampshire Democrats at this point, even to the core of activists who are paying attention now.