McCain Wins New Hampshire: Romney Second

010708-nh-liquor.jpgUpdate: No winner for the Democrats yet, which makes CNN look bad because they were calling it for Obama all day.

But, even more embarrassing, Rudy Giuliani is thisclose to getting beaten by Ron Paul, 9% to 8% as of 10:00 pm.

Update to the Update: CNN has projected Hillary Clinton as the winner of the New Hampshire primary, a huge comeback after Iowa. (The "Iron My Shirt" dudes can stuff it.) Obama wasn't far behind, so Super Tuesday is going to be fun.

CNN just projected John McCain as the winner of the New Hampshire primary. Romney will likely take home yet another silver medal in the presidential Olympics.

Huckabee is far behind in third right now. That's bad news for Huckabee and for Stephen Colbert. In his writer-free return to the airwaves last night, Colbert reminded his audience and aired clips proving that Huckabee offered Colbert a slot as vice-president. If Huckabee made it (a long shot at this point), Colbert will have to wrestle Chuck Norris for the job. As for Big Blimpin' Ron Paul, the existence of the "Ron Paul Wall" didn't make him the winner, but he did kick Fred Thompson's ass.

Regarding the Democrats, "Cooter Power" didn't work out as well at John Edwards hoped. He came in third. We'll let you know how it turns out between Clinton and Obama.

Map of the New Hampshire liquor stores from the New Hampshire Liquor Commission. We're trying to help all the journalists out there.

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  • Jenny321

    Most people I know classified the event of Clinton's crying as "pointless" and "insignificant gossip". Not worth discussion time. We were more interested in character development. To conceive that this incident would dramatically affect polls is improbable.

    Character speculations aside, the Republican candidates' platforms for these elections are inadequate overall compared to the Democrats. It's obviously up to the Democrats for 2009. Considering Romney's professional history, however, the new president should appoint him for an economic advisory seat.

  • Mac

    On the GOP side, the numbers for Romney suggest that people who voted for him really liked him. Almost half of those who voted for McCain

    stated that they had "reservations" about him!
    But the picture for Romney was even worse: 36% of all voters stated that they had an either "somewhat unfavorable" or "strongly unfavorable" view of Romney! If Republicans don't like him up here, they sure aren't going to like him anywhere else around the country. He was also pegged by 30% of the voters as running the "most unfair" campaign -- he won this particular vote by a landslide. It may be time for Romney to quit.

  • Mac

    CNN further confused things by calling it for Clinton, despite a very narrow margin of victory. Some of CNN's press corps (and Clinton herself) are painting her win as a "comeback," but

    CNN's own exit polling
    shows that Clinton's strongest area of dominance was in the vote of people who decided over a month ago (she won nearly half of those voters, compared to Obama's 31%). Clinton did hold a very slight lead among people who decided today, but it wasn't a significant number. All of which is to say that the positive effect of Clinton's "crying" wasn't all that great, just as Bostonist suggested recently.

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