(6:32 p.m. ET) 

Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman told FOX News on Tuesday that the New York senator plans to soon bring in "a lot more top-level advisers," even as former Bill Clinton advisers Paul Begala and James Carville earlier denied reports that they are on tap.

"We want to bring in as many new people as we can," Chairman Terry McAuliffe said. "I would love to have James and Paul come in and help this campaign. We'd wanted them from day one ... I'd love to have them come in and give us some advice."

FOX News reported Tuesday that the campaign is due for a significant shake-up after what could be a defeat in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary. Senior Clinton sources told FOX News no one will be fired, but that numerous advisers from Bill Clinton's White House and campaigns, including Begala and Carville, will take on roles likely to overshadow the input of the current team.

Clinton's senior strategist, Mark Penn, is expected to remain on the campaign, as is current campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle.

McAuliffe said he has already begun to look past the New Hampshire vote, and the new strategy and staff will be geared toward Feb. 5, when nearly two dozen states vote.

"We have plenty of money, we've got millions in the bank ... we're in for the long haul," McAuliffe said. "I never thought (New Hampshire) was a firewall."

All the new volunteer Clinton advisers are believed to be committed through the Feb. 5 primaries.

Click here for more information on this story in The Bourbon Room.

-- FOX News' Major Garrett

More Ballots Sent to Some N.H. Districts  

(2:17 p.m. ET)

Dispatch from the field:

The weather is extraordinary. Jan 8 is usually about 10-15 degrees.

When NH Secretary of State Bill Gardner earlier projected 500,000 voters he was anticipating temps in the 20s.

500,000 would have been 100,000 more than the all time primary record and yet it seems likely to exceed that.

Here in Hooksett where they have about 5,000 previously registered voters, the moderator tells me that they have already crossed 2,900 and she says that they are seeing a lot of same-day registrants.

The Secretary of State's office is worried that some areas especially on the more liberal New Hampshire seacoast will run out of ballots

THEY HAVE NOT ACTUALLY RUN OUT OF BALLOTS ANYWHERE (as has been reported elsewhere) but vans have been dispatched to those areas just in case.

They are not printing new ballots. They have reserves. No one has run out and they don't expect to run out. This is precautionary.

-- FOX News' Carl Cameron

Back to the Future at the Clinton Campaign 

(12:56 p.m. ET)

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is looking backward as some of the top advisers to former President Clinton are set to join to Clinton's faltering campaign as early as  Wednesday.

Senior Clinton sources tell FOX News that the New York senator intends to bring in as top day-to-day advisers James Carville and Paul Begala. The campaign could also add other strategists from Clinton's presidential years, but Carville and Begala are the biggest names so far, and could join the campaign after a post-New Hampshire strategy meeting on Wednesday.

Click here to read Major Garrett's report.

Thompson Campaigns From Afar

(12:34 p.m. ET)

Apparently unswayed by unseasonably warm weather in the Northeast,  GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson is spending Tuesday in South Carolina, some 800 miles away from the action in New Hampshire.

Thompson is putting his money on The Palmetto State primary with it's "First in the South" status. It's close to his home state of Tennessee. And of New Hampshire's tendency to predict eventual winners?

"Everybody looks at the current wisdom, you know, Hillary Clinton was inevitable a few days ago. Rudy Giuliani was inevitable a few days ago. John McCain was going to run third in Iowa. He didn't, of course, I did," Thompson said, speaking with FOX News by phone.

Thompson bested McCain by a slim margin of 345 caucus votes, taking 13.3 percent of the 118,696 GOP caucus votes cast last Thursday, over McCain's 13.1 percent.

"So the conventional wisdom about all these things -- or what history tells one to conclude -- didn't work out a great deal of the time. Never have these primaries been situated the way they are today." That, Thompson said, "allows us to do what we're doing."

Nice Weather, Tough Times on Primary Day 

(11:53 a.m.)

The polls are open in New Hampshire, and we hear the weather is great (except from S.C. Sen. Lindsay Graham, who shivered on camera today while stumping for Sen. John McCain. "It's winter here!" he told his home-state constituents.)

According to Weather.com, right now in Concord, N.H., it's partly cloud; 43 F; feels like 43 F; predicted high 62 F.

Interesting reading ...

An A1 Wall Street Journal story this morning continues the sour note for Hillary Clinton's campaign, which is facing increasingly unfavorable polling numbers heading toward poll closing tonight: 

"With Barack Obama strongly favored -- even within Hillary Clinton's camp -- to win a second straight victory in today's New Hampshire Democratic primary, both rivals are looking to the next battle grounds. But his momentum threatens to swamp her in the next two states as well and shows signs of fracturing her support in the party establishment.

"Already some Clinton associates have begun lobbying for her early exit if she loses the primary by a big margin, as polls suggest she could. Several Senate colleagues who have sat on the fence are now in talks with Obama advisers about endorsing the freshman Illinois senator over his more experienced colleague.

"Despite raising more than $100 million, Sen. Clinton also faces financial worries as contributions have begun to slacken. But she vows to fight on: Her campaign will pivot to focus more heavily on "Super Tuesday" Feb. 5, when 21 states vote. "We are going all the way to the convention," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said." The rest ...

This Washington Post editorial rings a stinging note for Mitt Romney -- also sliding in pre-primary New Hampshire polls -- on the immigration tune:

"MITT ROMNEY, struggling to revive his floundering candidacy and to stiff-arm a surging Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary, has pushed his plan for dealing with illegal immigration to center stage. Unfortunately, it is no plan at all. That has become clear in recent days, and particularly at the GOP candidates' debate Saturday, when Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, contradicted himself repeatedly, as well as his own TV advertisements, while stumbling in rhetorical figure-eights around the immigration debate.

"Mounting his attack on Mr. McCain, Mr. Romney has blanketed New Hampshire television stations with ads deriding as "amnesty" the senator's plan to provide an eventual pathway to legalization for America's 12 million undocumented immigrants -- the same plan he once called "reasonable." But in the debate Saturday, Mr. Romney twice said the McCain plan is not "technically" amnesty because it would sock undocumented immigrants with a $5,000 penalty if they wanted to remain in the country. He also denied that his own ads describe McCain's program as an "amnesty," which in fact they do. He then managed to double back on himself by asserting that "most people" would consider the McCain plan an amnesty." The rest ...