... but her lead is dwindling in NH, and does not exist in IA or SC.

And of course, among low-information, low-engagement voters, she also has a far more substantial base of "will never vote for her" developed. Any time she loses ground among primary voters, she has to know that any effort she makes to regain that ground will be instantly seized upon by the radical right wing noise machine to attempt to further entrench her unfavorables. And the higher they can pump her unfavorables, the weaker her position becomes among the "any Democrat as long as they can win" crowd.

Given a strategic inability to make up ground in the primary race when she loses it, the prospect is for a long term slide through the remainder of 2007, with the main question of interest being the rate of the slide ... 0.25% monthly? 0.5% monthly? 1% monthly?