Preparing For A Long Primary Season

Candidates are assigning budgets and priorities to different states.

In the next, sprawling phase of this campaign, strategists will have to decide which states to contest, and how hard to do so. Many of those decisions will be made Tuesday night, after the results of the New Hampshire primary, where the battle for second or third place has been brutal, judging by the polls.

"We're adjusting to a new reality coming off of Iowa, and we may have a totally different reality after New Hampshire," said Joe Trippi, campaign manager for Dr. Dean. Mr. Trippi said the campaign halted some of its advertising in the Feb. 3 states, in part to figure out the new lay of the land.