As soon as I heard about the story that Sen. Hillary Clinton's eyes welled up with tears as she talked with voters in a New Hampshire restaurant, I felt a sick feeling in my stomach. Not for her - she's an adult - but rather for me.

As a solo reporter on the campaign trail, I am always worried about missing something. And I'm especially worried about missing something big, even though I know I can't be everywhere.

When I finally heard the actual Hillary audio while driving to a Barack Obama event, I gulped. It was that kind of unscripted moment that doesn't happen very often on the campaign trail. There was nothing a reporter needed to add. You just play the video or the audio and the viewer/listener takes it from there.

12 years ago, I was lucky enough to have been at the Dover Elks Club when Bill Clinton gave his famous "I'll stick with you til the last dog dies" line to voters a few days before the New Hampshire Primary. Unfortunately, this time I guess I missed what might be the seminal Clinton quote of the 2008 campaign.

Now while that sequence overshadowed the last day of campaign news in the Granite State, the real question is "Will it make any difference?" Maybe it makes the Senator more human, but it doesn't make me think it will somehow sway votes her way.

"In One More Day"

While the media was evaluating the Hillary story, Barack Obama was making his way around New Hampshire on Monday with the constant refrain of "in one more day" voters would be able to make their voices heard on the 2008 election and bring about change.

"That's what you can be a part of New Hampshire," Obama said, "if you stand up with me for one more day."

I caught up with him in Rochester, to the northeast of Manchester. As usual with Obama, several hundred people were turned away from the event, this time from what was a beautiful, old, historic theater in the city.

Just a few minutes after Obama started, he was interrupted by abortion protestors. It came as the Clinton camp has been applying pressure on Obama over some votes he took in the Illinois legislature on abortion, where he voted 'present' instead of 'aye' or 'nay.'

It was the first time that I had seen Obama slightly flustered as he tried to get the group to quiet down so he could continue. After a few minutes the transgressors were hustled out of the upstairs seating area to shouts of "Taser them!" from some of the Obama partisans.

Some protestors also interrupted a Hillary Clinton event in Salem on Monday, when two men began chanting "Iron my shirt!" and holding up signs that said the same thing.

I'll let you figure out what that's all about.

From my travels, John McCain has had the most protestors following him on many of his campaign stops. Some are upset by his stance on the Iraq war, others accuse him of not doing enough on HIV-AIDS.

As for McCain, he rumbled around the state in his "Straight Talk Express" which in fact passed me on I-293 as I headed home for the night.

I caught his rally at the State Capitol in Concord, which drew a fairly good sized crowd on a balmy 40 degree day. McCain clearly must feel like he is re-living 2000, when he easily defeated George W. Bush.

McCain told reporters later in the day that he is "confident" he will win on Tuesday. A victory would likely make him the defacto leader of the GOP pack and represent another setback for Mitt Romney.

Romney had been the favorite in both Iowa and New Hampshire. His people are arguing that a pair of second place finishes should not be ignored and means he is certainly part of this race. Let's see how close he is to McCain and then we can go from there.

I saw Romney Monday morning at the headquarters of the Timberland company (no free samples were handed out unfortunately.) The really striking thing about the event was that Romney said the word "change" or "changes" or "changing" about 18 million times. Okay, maybe less than that, but you get the picture.

Everyone is preaching "change" right now, mainly because Barack Obama is doing well so far. If it works, why not use it? Romney now has big signs that say "Washington Is Broken." Hopefully he won't say something like "you broke it, you buy it."

As for the Romney-McCain comparison, they are two different people and their campaign events certainly show it.

McCain can be feisty and his town hall forums are often a mix of him doing stand-up comedy, lecturing his opponents and flat out telling people that he's going to disagree with them on issue X and Y.

There is a sense of energy and action at a McCain event that you just don't get with Romney. His events are very CEO-like and are often business-oriented, just like he is.

I had to laugh today when the music used during after Romney was introduced on stage was "Dirty Water" by the Standells. Nothing like a song that talks about how polluted the Charles River and Boston Harbor are, especially when Romney was Governor of Massachusetts.

My agenda today also included a visit to Radio Row in Manchester, where a host of talk show people are gathered in the Radisson, which is the Center of the Political Universe right now.

There we found Neal Boortz and a host of others holding forth on the New Hampshire race and the issues related to it. We even got the talkmaster to smile a bit for his picture.

It's all pretty funny - everyone is crammed into these meeting rooms in the hotel, all babbling on the microphones with all kinds of political experts and important people stopping in for interviews.

I think I totaled 225 miles today on the car, which is pretty good considering how small New Hampshire is compared to Iowa.

Tuesday, I will run around in the morning trying to find candidates as they shake hands with voters outside polling places. There is one precinct I always go to - I can't really tell you where it is, or what it is named, but I went there the first time and every primary election since and I'll find it again today for old time's sake.

As for what happens today, it may depend on where the Independents go. If they vote for Obama en masse, that's great news for him and maybe for Mitt Romney, because it means John McCain loses some of the votes he won eight years ago.

On the other hand, a flood to McCain could produce a lower vote total for Obama. Whether we should be worried about Hillary actually winning, that's another story.

If she gets close, don't be surprised if you hear the line, "The Comeback Kid" used for her tonight.