The first New Hampshire results are in. From Dixville Notch: Democrats: Obama 7, Edwards 2, Richardson 1. Republicans: McCain 4, Romney 2, Giuliani 1. From Hart’s Location: Democrats: Obama 9, Clinton 3, Edwards 1. Republicans: McCain 6, Huckabee 5, Paul 4, Romney 1.
The results are not necessarily predictive of anything – Wesley Clark won both localities in the 2004 primary, while coming in a distant third overall. One thing that is striking, however, is that more people voted in the Democratic primary in a village that has historically voted heavily Republican for the general elections, and that the crossover votes went decisively to Obama.
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Folks get together, have a lot of hoopla and put their ballot in a box. I love the fact that the citizens there make a big deal about voting.
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p>It’s positively hilarious that the media cooks up major headlines talking about how Obama blasted Hillary Clinton. I love that there’s a giant CNN bus in Dixville Notch, a place hardly anybody would otherwise ever hear about, just to report that Obama got 6 more votes than Clinton.
Or 7. Depending on whether I made a typo or switched towns.
Get a life, guys. I can’t believe blogs are reporting these “early results from New Hampshire” as front page news.
Lighten up, Will. Here is a morning beer for you: (B) and a smaller one for the afternoon, which you can hide in your desk until after lunch, (b).
You didn’t run it as a joke — like DailyKos ostensibly did, which, had you done similarly, would have made you merely late to the punch — but no, you tried to run it as a real result with the “cross-over votes for Obama” analysis.
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p>Thanks for the beer, but I would recognize this as sub-par blogging even when intoxicated. Cheers.
People are voting in the Democratic Primary so that “she who should not be name” is not elected president. I became convinced of this yesterday when talking to a couple of conservative registered independents. They said “the most important thing is making sure Hillary Clinton is not President”.
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p>I think that had a lot to do with Obama’s victory in Iowa and I think that will have a lot to do with Obama absolutely crushing Ms. Rodham-Clinton tonight.
Seriously though, these “the Clintons will stop at nothing” people are certainly some wierd ducks.
Does anybody have a rundown of what is closed and what is opened vis a vis primaries?
That would be bad for McCain today, and good for Romney.
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p>While, if the Democrats go too far off the liberal populist edge, it is at least possible (though highly unlikely, thanks to Bush and Rove) that I would vote Republican this November, there is absolutely no way that I would do so for Romney.