Furiously working their BlackBerries and cellphones, [Obama Staffers] were trying to figure out just when the expected bare-knuckles street brawl might begin.
To be sure, Hillary Clinton's camp isn't planning to sit easy with their loss to Obama in the Iowa caucuses yesterday, sending signals that they will be pointing out contrasts between the two candidates in the four days leading up to the New Hampshire primary.
That's arguably the logical course of action for a candidate who needs to contain the damage of an Iowa loss with a solid win in New Hampshire.
Obama operatives were trying to get out ahead of the news by spinning it in advance.
"I think the attacks will define their candidacy," Obama strategist David Axelrod said this morning. "When you have to resort to those tactics, that begins to define your campaign. It's one more way in which you have a very hard time standing up and saying you're the candidate of change."
Obama, of course, lays claim to that sunny point of view. And he suggested in an interview this week that he can handle the heat.
"I come from Chicago, man," he told the Tribune's John McCormick
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