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Until she refreshes herself adequately for the next round, devotees of your blogstress may amuse themselves by reading coverage your ecrivaine provided to sites other than AddieStan: AT THE GUARDIAN UNLIMITED: "A WOMAN ON THE VERGE" AT TAPPED: "BUCHANAN HEARTS HUCKABEE" AT TAPPED: "CLINTON SWARM" AT REAL WOMEN, REAL VOICES: "THE VIEW FROM RADIO ROW" AT REAL WOMEN, REAL VOICES: "ARNIE ARNESEN AND HER REGULAR WOMAN PROBLEM" AT REAL WOMEN, REAL VOICES: "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN BE PRESIDENT"

MANCHESTER, N.H.--After having pulled two all-nighters in a row, your blogstress begins the long trip back to Our Nation's Capital. Thank goodness she does not have to do the driving herself, having had the good fortune of making a new friend who is younger and abler-bodied than she. How 'bout that Hillary, huh?

MANCHESTER, N.H.--Your blogstress has published a piece at the Guardian Unlimited "Comment Is Free" blog on WaterworksGate -- the scandal of the welling eyes of a presidential candidate. CLICK HERE TO READ "A WOMAN ON THE VERGE"

photo © 2008 Talk Radio News Service Arnie Arnesen interviews Elizabeth Kucinich on the Talk Radio News Service radio row. MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Deborah "Arnie" Arnesen is a lot of things: attorney, television producer, radio talk show host. Recently named by The Nation magazine as one of the country's Most Valuable Progressives , Arnesen was also the first woman to run for governor in the state of New Hampshire. In 1992 , while facing off against Republican Steve Merrill , to whom she lost by a hair, Arnesen also helped shepherd a young presidential candidate around the state. His name was Bill Clinton . Arensen has been broadcasting her radio show, Chowder in the Morning (WCCM 1110 AM in Southern New Hampshire), this week from the Talk Radio News Service radio row in Manchester, and I had the good fortune to get Arnie to sit down for an interview on primary night, in between interviews she was giving to media outlets as far flung as Australian TV and Al Jazeera. One...

The debate has been substantive, but your blogstress has been a bit too weary to stay focused on the details. So instead, she'll play the MSM game of writing the sports narrative. The strategery here seems united among the men: they want the broad out. Edwards seems to be hedging by not taking on Barack Obama , the party star, and Richardson seemed to cast his lot, as well, with the men. They'd all rather lose to a man than lose to a woman.

Hillary Clinton continues to fascinate. She can lull us to sleep with wonky policy descriptions, then suddenly lurch into an impassioned plea to be heard. From Jonathan Cohn at The Plank : was about to write an item suggesting that Hillary Clinton's angry response to John Edwards was going to become "the moment" of this debate, because the media -- which, regrettably, always focuses on theatrics more than substance -- would deem it evidence that she had lost control of her temper. From Ezra Klein , herewith: In the debate over health care mandates, rather than argue for his plan, or against Obama's, Edwards went after Hillary as a force "of the status quo" fighting those trying to bring about change. It backfired.

When asked to respond to polling showing that people do not find her likable, Hillary made a mock-sad face and said, "It hurts my feelings." And immediately seemed human and likable. (Barack Obama, in an ungracious moment, said, not looking her in the eye, "You're likable enough, Hillary.") She reminded the audience that the American people last elected a president that "they would like to have a beer with." But then she went on to argue that she is an agent of change, and it felt flat until she said that being the first woman president would makes a pretty strong statement of change.

Everybody seems really tired. Bill Richardson is advancing his simplistic and idiotic position that the U.S. should make Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf step aside, invoke a clause in the Pakistan constitution for a caretaker government, and call new elections. Hillary Clinton gave a very smart answer about how to move with Pakistan with regard to following actionable intelligence to go after Osama bin Laden , reminding viewers that you can't lob missiles into Pakistan without considering the possibility of igniting a nuclear conflict in South Asia if India activates its arsenal.

Scott Spralding , the moderator from WMUR just asked the Republicans to explain why people should not vote for Barack Obama . More revealing than their answers so far is the very fact of the question; it would appear to anoint Obama as the frontrunner, even though WMUR's own poll shows him tied with Hillary Clinton .