Chris Cillizza gives us a breakdown of the candidates' positioning in the Super Tuesday states, noting that Barack Obama has 19 offices in 13 states that have primaries on Feb. 5 while Hillary Clinton only has five offices in those states. His locations include places like Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Ala., in addition to Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York City, St. Paul, and Salt Lake City. Clinton just has two offices in California, and one each in New York, Arkansas and New Jersey.
He's also been organizing "Women for Obama Leadership Committees" in those states, an effort to draw female votes away from Clinton. All this shows that Obama anticipates the primary season being a knock-down, drag-out fight beyond January, while Clinton doesn't. Polls currently show Clinton with large leads in those states, but the on-the-ground efforts of the Obama campaign are sure to affect that over the next two months. While that doesn't matter if he tanks in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, it's evidence of the very different strategizing going on in the two camps, and could burn Clinton if January doesn't go as planned.
--Kate Sheppard
