Hampstead, N.H.

Chris Christie has four events scheduled for today, which is good. Less good is that all of them are in tiny venues, the type of awareness-building, candidate-shopping size places most campaigns hope to do back in early January. This morning, for instance, Christie is booked into a coffee shop in a strip center. Maybe 80 people—counting voters, employees, and media—pack inside, before police close the doors. Another 20 or so stand outside as the snow begins. They hang around because campaign staff promise the locals that as soon as Christie arrives, he’ll talk to them, take selfies with them, whatever they want.