New Hampshire Questions

The eyes of the nation are on New Hampshire. Going into the vote fest, it seems that Barack Obama has the momentum and barring something unusual should come out the victor. The question is -- how wide a victory. On the Republican side things are really confused -- McCain seems to have the edge, but the question is further down toward Feb. 5. Who will emerge and is it too late for Rudy?

Dan Balz writes in the Washington Post an article asking 8 questions that New Hampshire could answer.

In many ways, Balz suggests that the day will leave more questions unanswered than answered. But there are big questions here for Hillary Clinton. She obviously has the money to go on. She also has the tenacity and big guns at her side. It's unlikely she'll drop out before Feb. 5, when she'll have an opportunity to reap big rewards -- especially NY and possibly New Jersey and California (California is tricky because so many vote absentee). So, she could recover, but the question is how she'll do it.

I think she really wants to win, and that could lead her to embrace a scorched earth policy that would leave Obama a badly damaged winner in the end. The question she must ask is this: Is her desire to become president so strong that she would rather a Republican win than Obama? That is the question that New Hampshire can't answer, but she must address and soon.