Before her two, main rivals got too far tagging Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's commitment to reforming Social Security, Clinton unveiled an ad to innoculate herself today.

   CONCORD [-] Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said primary rival Hillary Clinton’s stand on preserving Social Security amounts to ``political doubletalk’’ and voters don’t view it as a lasting solution

  This really could be the year of the woman because Mitt Romney owes his biggest endorsement to date in part to the former first lady of New Hampshire, Kathy Gregg.

   Gardner got welcome news from two of New Hampshire’s lingering adversaries of its first primary law in this cycle [-] Iowa and Michigan.

  Anyone can see Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson needs a lifeline in New Hampshire and he got one today with the naming of Charles Arlinghaus as a volunteer adviser to the effort.

   ``He's gotten a late start of course but I've been an admirer of Fred Thompson going quite a while back. I truly believe he's someone who can unite economic and social conservatives,'' Arlinghaus said during a telephone interview.

  If Obama National Campaign Manager David Plouffe is panic-stricken about Hillary Clinton's big lead in New Hampshire polls, he's got one of the better poker faces in the business.

  Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton may be the last, major candidate to file for President a week from Friday.

   The Clinton campaign informed Secretary of State Bill Gardner's office that the New York senator will come to sign up at noontime on Nov. 2, the last day of filing.