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Don't follow the money

Campaigning in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Bill Richardson told voters to pay no attention to those awesomely funded candidates at the head of the presidential pack.

"Wait until you see all the candidates. Wait until you see the debates. Wait until you see who has the best record and the best plan to lead our country," he said at New England College. "Don't get swayed by rock-star status or polls or how much money we've raised. I did OK in that area, but I'm not in the stratosphere."

The former congressman also took a crack at Congress, saying, "They do nothing there." Huh. So we were paying him to do nothing all those years?

Another love letter

A blogger named Rook at "The Daily Kos" blew some kisses at the guv Wednesday:

"Richardson is doing amazing things inside and outside New Mexico. He just signed a law to legalize medical marijuana in New Mexico because he's not going to let running for the White House stop him from doing what he thinks is right, no matter how controversial. How much does it rock to see a candidate with courage rather than just safe talking points?"

Richardson `wins'

That silly NCAA-like online contest we wrote about Tuesday is over, and guess what? Richardson won. For whatever it's worth, here's how Ken Camp at "Washington for Richardson" analyzed the result:

"Most noteworthy . . . isn't that Bill Richardson beat Barack Obama, but that the Obama Internet operation lost to the Richardson netroots by 20 percent. That's the same Obama Internet operation that's being touted by the media as the best in the business. . . . You can have thousands of `friends' on a social networking site, but if they aren't willing to take action on your behalf, what is the point?"

`Foreign policy stud'

A.B. Stoddard, a writer on "The Hill" blog, said Wednesday that Richardson is having the week of his life:

"Not only did Richardson raise more money than his second-tier colleagues, Sens. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, and Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, but he got President Bush to bless his trip to North Korea, creating an opportunity to remind everyone again that he is the Foreign Policy Stud of the Democratic contest."

And then, of course, Stoddard just had to throw in this:

"Sure, he may be the only governor whose lieutenant governor went on the record to say he touches her too much, but there's no getting around his usefulness to this race and ultimately to a Democratic nominee for president."