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Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is about to get really boring—at least, if everything goes according to plan.

For anyone who paid attention to her trip to Iowa last week, the former secretary of state’s agenda for Monday and Tuesday in New Hampshire looks strikingly similar: two small roundtable conversations open to the press but not to a larger audience of voters, a few carefully-staged photo ops at coffee shops and restaurants, plus private meetings with party activists and elected officials.

Rick Perry is beefing up his policy shop.

The likely Republican presidential candidate’s political action committee, RickPAC, will announce new staff hires as early as Monday, including senior-level advisers in the areas of health care, economics, and foreign policy, a person familiar with the plans told Bloomberg.

Democratic rivals pitch themselves on Sunday TV as Clinton is represented by stand-ins

Democrats in the emerging 2016 presidential field angled for exposure on the morning talk-show circuit on Sunday as the formidable front-runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton, stayed out of the fray and sent emissaries instead.

Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley and former Virginia senator James Webb pitched themselves as possible alternatives, with O’Malley declaring during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that it would be “an extreme poverty indeed” if no Democrat mounted a serious challenge to Clinton for the nomination.

Scott Walker stresses his discount attire and ‘regular guy’ credentials

Calling voters “folks” and boasting about his cut-rate suits from Jos. A. Bank, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker campaigned vigorously in New Hampshire over the weekend, citing his polarizing labor policies and urging Republican primary voters to resist pleas for moderation in a party that has lost the last two presidential elections.

Carly Fiorina strategy: Stay in race long enough to shake it up

Carly Fiorina is preparing to challenge conventional campaign wisdom that says the Republican presidential nominee must place in the top three in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, instead preparing a longer but less-expensive campaign strategy.

Lindsey Graham eyes May presidential announcement

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday there’s a better than 90 percent chance he’ll run for president, saying he’ll decide in May.

“If I can raise the money, I’ll do it,” the South Carolina Republican said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Huckabee to share 2016 plans on May 5

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Friday that he will tell supporters on May 5 in the hometown he shares with former President Bill Clinton whether or not he will seek the Republicans’ presidential nomination.