"I'm In"she says. And as blogger savvy as John Edwards was in outreach, Clinton internet team had the email's of bloggers to notify them separate from the press (no such outreach from the Obama camp). The website has the clean, Kerry-2004 look about it. A smart "write our first post" call to action on the website. The announcement of "an unprecedented series of video webcasts beginning Monday, January 22nd at 7pm EST for three nights" creates a quick narrative of interaction and response around Bush's SOTU address. It'll be interesting to see if she gets a bump in the national and early state polls.

Also, rumors: California has the votes to move their primary up, and are looking at February 5th, 2008. Based on that happening, and even moreso if Florida also moves up, I will predict that it a brokered convention becomes likely; NH's SoS is just waiting till later in the year to leapfrog the NH primary ahead of IA to become the first event in 2008 (Jan 8th); if NH does such a move, MI has been given the wink to move their Democratic 'firehouse' primary before them all.

Update [2007-1-20 10:42:42 by Jerome Armstrong]:

Republican Sam Brownback is also in the race today:

Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas today will become the first major Republican to officially declare his presidential candidacy.Brownback, 50, will speak to reporters and 300 invited guests at noon in the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka, according to his staff. “That’s his hometown; that’s where he started his career as the state secretary of agriculture,” said Brownback spokesman Brian Hart. Hart said the topic of Brownback’s speech would be “rebuilding America’s families and renewing American culture.”

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