An extensive poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg News Service has concluded that the Democratic race for presidency is now a two-headed monster in New Hampshire and a three-way in Iowa.

The poll finds Barack Obama with 32 percent of Democrat support in the Granite State versus 30 percent for Hillary Clinton. In September, say pollsters, those numbers were 16 and 35 percent, respectively.

The numbers for Iowa are within the margin of error as well, with Clinton and Obama at 29 and 26, respectively, and Earnest John Edwards nipping at heels with 25 percent support of those polled.

On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee is suddenly crushing Mitt Romney in Iowa, with a whopping 37-23 percent lead in the poll. New Hampshire sees Romney leading John McCain with a 34-21 advantage.

Meanwhile, many news outlets are speculating about the effect of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto; most reckon that Clinton, Giuiliani and McCain could benefit should campaign discourse refocus on foreign policy issues. And, of course, quotes on the matter flew fast and furious.

While Giuliani stated that "[Bhutto's] death is a reminder that terrorism anywhere - whether in New York, London, Tel-Aviv or Rawalpindi - is an enemy of freedom," the former NYC mayor was actually out-toughed in rhetoric by Fred Thompson, who proclaimed "the forces of civilization against the forces of anarchy. And it's us against them."

And Obama campaign strategist found a way to put the same old spin on a new story: "Barack Obama had the judgment to oppose the war in Iraq. And he warned at the time that it would divert us from Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, and now we see the effect of that. Senator Clinton made a different judgment. Let's have that discussion."