It was a nailbiter for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, but she finally beat Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary. According to polls (and pundits), Clinton was trailing Obama as much as 10% as late as the even of the primary:
In Iowa, Clinton lost out to Obama among women 35 percent to 30 percent. In New Hampshire, however, 45 percent of female Democratic primary voters picked Clinton, compared to 36 percent who went for Obama.
Older voters also overwhelmingly outnumbered younger voters, a proportion that benefited Clinton. Sixty-seven percent of Democratic primary voters were over the age of 40, and they were breaking heavily for Clinton over Obama.
On the Republican side, John McCain handily beat his closest rival Mitt Romney even though before the primaries, Romney had been leading in the polls (just like the situation Clinton was in).
Link: CNN article
Trivia: I just found out that Mitt Romney's first name is Willard, named after Willard Marriott (of the hotel fame!). "Mitt" comes from Milton Romney, who played quarterback for the Chicago Bears in the 1920s.
Either rigged, or people believed President Clinton's speach full of lies about Obama, taking his quotes out of context.
The Clintons need to hang it up and go the philanthropic route. Make way for the new generation of democrats the everyday American can relate to.
Obama/Webb 08!!
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/obama-actually.html
That being said, Hilary has a total of 183 vs Obama's 78 as she has more Superdelegates, which are handed out in some way outside the caucus/primary system- if anyone understands how they arrive at the number of superdelegates promised and if that # can be changed, let me know. I think this will come down to the wire on the democratic side, frankly. Delegates score card is up at CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/#D
Mindysan
Since you can't see my face I'm rolling my eyes at you, John K.
They ran out of Democrat ballots by 2 p.m. in most areas.
Can't wait for the Presidential election.
Did I miss the memo where they actually made the Futurama "head in a jar" thing a reality?
It takes about a minute or two.
I don't blame people like Anthony (above) for wanting to hide their heads in the sand. It's a very scary thing to face up to.
Whenever we hear the words like "surprise" and "unexpected upset" in an election with electronic voting machines and no paper trail it's time to take a closer look.