Interesting article about the upcoming primary battles

[ShaneGR]

Namely info on the Feb. 3rd primaries:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Democrats.html


It will cost upward of $1 million a week to air ads in every Feb. 3 television market, not to mention the cost of travel. Kerry, who dipped into his family fortune last year to keep his race afloat, is the only one of the five major candidates not advertising in any of the Feb. 3 states.

Edwards, whose candidacy hinges on a victory Feb. 3 in South Carolina, is hoping to carry his Iowa momentum to New Hampshire. One of his events was so crowded Tuesday that New Hampshire Democratic Party chairwoman Kathleen Sullivan was turned away at the door.

In South Carolina and elsewhere, Democrats were questioning Dean's political judgment after a bombastic election-night speech.

``He must not be thinking. He's heading to New Hampshire and those people are serious-minded. They're going to be thinking, 'Who's that cat?''' said Waring Howe Jr., a Charleston, S.C., lawyer and member of the Democratic National Committee.