Analysis: Nomination Races Still in Flux

Call it a failure to gel.

Iowa and New Hampshire, where presidential politics at this early point may matter more than in the nation as a whole, are in a state of flux just seven weeks before the first voting is to begin.

Voters who have managed to pick candidates in these two leadoff states are split among the top contenders in both parties, and more than half in both states say they have not made up their minds. For the leading candidates who have been campaigning for nearly a year, this is where they are after all their efforts:

_ For Democrats, a three-way virtual tie in Iowa among Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

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