Lest we should forget and tear out each other's throats: "Part of Obama's problem, analysts say, is that despite how hard his campaign is working to highlight its differences…he and Clinton are simply not far apart on major issues."

On that note, here's some speculative – very speculative – polling done by SurveyUSA. It's much too early to breathe a collective sigh of relief, but it is slightly comforting, no?

Hillary Clinton has significantly pulled away from Barack Obama in New Hampshire, according to a recent CNN poll that puts Clinton 23 points higher than Obama in the very important early primary state.

The New York Democrat registered 43 percent in the latest poll, 23 points more than Obama, an Illinois senator. In a similar poll conducted in July, only 9 points separated the candidates, with Clinton then at 36 percent and Obama at 27 percent.

"The seven-point change for both candidates is within the poll's sampling error, but may indicate growing support for Clinton as the primary approaches," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.

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Barack Obama gets mentioned in the conventional media nearly as much as Hillary Clinton, and, I'm just guessing here, a hell of a lot more than Dennis Kucinich.

Hillary Clinton was mentioned in 41 percent of all media articles covering presidential candidates in August, the same share of coverage Clinton generated since May, 2007. Barack Obama's coverage increased to 40 percent of media articles in August compared to 34 percent since May, an increase of 17.8% over his average.

While there has been some negative coverage on his foreign policy position, according to Biz360's Point-of-View Sentiment™ tone analysis, the majority of Obama's recent increase in coverage has been positive or neutral.

That one percentage point is all well and good, until you realize that in actual polls of voter, B.O.'s trailing Hill by about 19 points.

All three of the top Dem candidates — Barack, Hillary, and John — are mentioned far less in blogs, with Obama mentioned in 28 percent of online presidential discussions to Clinton's 31 percent. Here at Stereohyped, I'm just trying to even out the score, one Obamarama* at a time.

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*Although it probably doesn't count when I mention either Hillary Clinton or John Edwards in nearly every post.