The New Hampshire results were surprising to me but that's OK. It makes the bigger primaries more important and that is not inappropriate.

I still don't anticipate the Democratic Primary getting as nasty as the Republican battle. So I'm very comfortable with both Clinton and Obama being the focus of increased scruntiny.

They also need to be prepared to deal with the vicious attacks that will be generated from the Republican National Committee surrogates. One wonders what their favorite script will be.

Charley Noble