Hillary Clinton focused on last night's Democratic victory in her concession speech last night, because, after coming in third place, there was really no other victory to focus on. While she stayed very positive last night, political insiders, as well as her very own campaign aides, are saying that things are about to get ugly.

For weeks now Clinton aides have been threatening on and off the record to use some bad stuff against their chief opponent. First, two of them told conservative columnist Robert Novak the Clintons had very damaging information on Obama, but they weren't going to use it. Then her New Hampshire co-chair, Billy Shaheen, said, not that any Democrat would use Obama's admitted youthful drug use against him, but boy, would the Republicans have a field day with that later this year.

Meanwhile, John Edwards, who came in second to Obama in Iowa, had this to say to his supporters last night.

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I wonder if one has to be an Barack Obama supporter to go all goose-bumpy watching this speech (watch Part 2 here), which the senator made after the Iowa results came in. Obviously, I'm a supporter, and I'm plagued with goose bumps every time I think about what happened last night — "after the longest, costliest and most intensely fought campaign in the history of the Iowa caucuses," Barack Obama won! And the top three Democratic contenders matched up in a way that is certainly lighting a fire under the ass of one Hillary Rodham Clinton.

We'll surely be hearing, reading and (in my case) writing about this all day. But for now, get the hard facts after the jump.

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Iowa's time in the sun is almost over. I hope it's denizens are making the most of it. The much, much-talked about Iowa caucus is tomorrow, and all the candidates are doing last minute pushes for votes — a new Zogby poll shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a dead heat! And on the GOP side…some white guys are campaigning, too. Are there any Stereohypers in Iowa?

If any of you are confused about or interested in the way the Iowa caucus works, USA Today has a good overview.

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