New Hampshire Primary Results

Bernie Sanders is expected to handily win the New Hampshire primary tonight. That will likely be the end of the line for his campaign because he does not have the ground game Clinton has.

As for the GOP, who the hell knows who is going to win. Politico had the very early results a three-way tie among Cruz, Kasich, and Trump.

Here is a link to the results.


CNN has projected Bernie Sanders will win NH for Dems, while Trump will win it for the GOP.

Current returns have Kasich, Bush, Rubio, and Cruz, in that order following Trump.

Marco, We Hardly Knew Ye

One of the latest polls:

@EmersonPolling: #Breaking New Hampshire GOP Poll Results:
Trump 31%
Bush 16%
Kasich 13%
Rubio 12%
Cruz 11%


The ticket will be Kasich-Jeb or Jeb-Kasich or one or the other with somebody else with Trump going third party to ensure Hillary Clinton wins the presidency.

This was the game plan all the time.

If Congress wasn't under siege by the batshit crazy Bircher contingent, I could almost live with Kasich in the White House.

I don't mean literally live with him. I mean it as a figure of speech.

Jeb is still a fucking crook and shouldn't be allowed anywhere NEAR the Oval Office.

Marco's problem is not an excess of caution but an excess of stupidity. Chris Christie ended his presidential candidacy when he finally let all of the hot air out of that inflatable doll.

ABC New Hampshire Republican Debate

You can watch the bloodbath for yourself:

link

or at the YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRM2qSOkRLU

This link and video do not include the bizarre beginning.

Etc.

You can tell this country has hit rock bottom when you watch the GOP primary debates.
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Speaking of Republicans: On his way to becoming the 45th president of the United States, Mitt Romney handily won the New Hampshire primary over his rivals:

It took him nearly six years and two attempts, but Mitt Romney Tuesday finally won the support of New Hampshire Republican primary voters Tuesday and became the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination.

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I came across this article from last summer about some Chicago teachers who were given the career kiss of death: the non-renewal or "do not rehire" scheme. Good comments following the article.
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Grandstanding Dennis Kucinich

doesn't believe there was "fraud" in New Hampshire; he's trying to showboat and draw attention to himself instead of focusing on his House seat.

What a goddamned loser. I got sick of him when he attacked Edwards.

Did Heckling

help Hillary Clinton win New Hampshire?

For Once In His Life,

Turd might actually be right with regard to Hillary Clinton's win in New Hampshire.

Obama DID have a mediocre night in last Saturday's debate, just as he always does, and his remark about likability with regard to Clinton did hurt him:



He might have tried to make a joke, but the least he could have done was put his head up and actually look at her instead of writing on his notepad.

The "tears" moment probably helped, too, plus the fact she had many women and undecideds go for her.

No, there was no rigging in this race.

Here is the video:

Pollsters Are Wondering

why in the hell New Hampshire voters had enough sense to reject the media's anointed Democratic candidate.

I Don't Agree

with everything in this post:

A few observations on yesterday's New Hampshire primary:

1. Because I am a supporter of John Edwards, you might think that I would be disappointed in last night's third-place finish. Well, think again. Edwards campaigned very little in New Hampshire, and New Hampshire voters are among the nation's most likely to be turned off by a southern accent and boyish charm.

But Hillary's narrow victory pleased me, throwing our increasingly nasty-toned race into the kind of turmoil that leaves a third-place finish not looking so bad. It leaves Edwards a little bit out of the way of all the mudslinging going into a few races, in Michigan, South Carolina and Florida, where he might fare better and have some freshly-minted momentum going into Super Duper Tuesday on February 5.

It's really not a bad position to be in at this particular moment.

2. Hillary's close victory is being touted as some kind of "upset" because polls over the past few days (not even a whole week, actually) showed Obama to have taken a fairly substantial lead, with one poll even showing an Obama margin over Hillary of thirteen percentage points. But one week ago the positions had been reversed, and people's opinions really don't swing that rapidly.

Indeed, the narrowness of her win would have been considered an OBAMA "expectations victory" as recently as last Thursday, and I believe that it shows that neither of these candidates has a particularly strong hold on any widespread support.

3. I have, in some recent writings, described a phenomenon that occurs when an election is between a black candidate and a white one, in which the black candidate fares much better in public opinion polls than he or she does when the votes are actually counted. I peg this disparity at around 6% of the vote, and it is fairly consistent nationwide. It is, in my opinion, the result of a latent racism that manifests itself only in the privacy of one's self, behind the closed curtain of a voting booth. Because it has become a social taboo, bigots hide their bigotry when speaking in polite company or in any public setting (as when being interviewed by a pollster), but are not afraid to express it in private or among like-minded racists.

I believe that this effect reared its ugly head once more among the "flinty" voters of New Hampshire last night, and if Obama is our candidate it will hurt us badly next November.

4. On the Republican side, I cannot foresee Mitt Romney being able to win anywhere if he could not win New Hampshire. And he quite emphatically did not win New Hampshire.

I'd love to think that money can only take an unfit candidate so far, but then I remember George W. Bush.

5. Has Rudy Giuliani dropped completely off the table? He deserves to. Giuliani is the scariest as regards our civil liberties.

6. I do not think John McCain will be the Republican nominee, but I am often wrong about what Republicans will do, constantly overestimating their intelligence (by assuming, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it's a number above zero). New Hampshire Republicans have always liked him, although why they like him is one of life's mysteries.

But one thing for sure: The media sure like him. Both Meet the Press and Face the Nation had him as their sole guest on the Sunday before the New Hampshire primary. And they constantly characterize his chief appeal as being his "straight talk." Hunh?

Listen, folks. That is NOT "straight talk" coming out of his mouth. He is toeing the Bush administration line on Iraq, and if anyone still really believes that invading Iraq was a good idea and that, knowing then what we know now, that he would do just what Bush did but with more troops, as McCain stated on Face the Nation Sunday morning, then he is either too stupid even to be considered for president or else he is engaging in semantic subterfuge intended to pander to Bush's base, still a significant factor in Republican circles.

In the past, McCain has behaved a little bit (but JUST a little bit) more reasonably than most Republicans when the issue was immigration, taxes, or campaign financing, but his TALK, at this point, is far more doctrinaire Republican, and so if it is actually "straight" then he has flipped his positions on a number of essential points.

And he now sweet-talks the evangelicals who he CORRECTLY laid into so heavily in 2000. He ain't the man he used to be.

People also speak of his expertise in foreign policy. Forgive me, but I do not see spending a few years in a Vietnamese prison camp, and a few more as a Senate back-bencher from Arizona, as imparting a whole lot of international depth or diplomatic expertise. Since then he's been a senator who's shot off his mouth a lot and been wrong on nearly every issue.

You want foreign policy expertise? Elect a Democrat and get people, a number of them, actually, who have actually achieved peace between implacable foes.

And that ridiculous, affected sing-song breathiness in his voice drives me up an effin' wall!

But most of all, I think he's actually crazy, really heavily paranoid and disoriented in his thinking. The hatred of the Islamic world that he expressed in his victory speech last night really gave me the willies.

All that said, I think he's the one among the Republican hopefuls that we'll beat most easily next November. I really don't think this country is going to give a vote of confidence either to Bush's war in Iraq or to Bushonomics, and McCain is clearly the candidate of Bush White House continuity here.

7. What are the Paultards saying today about that big 8% showing for their man in the one state most likely to show him favor? I know Ron Paul is the darling of weirdos who people the Republican Internet, but the chance of him winning, or even finishing in the top tier of finishers in ANY primary, is precisely nil.

On to Michigan. If John Edwards can't get a good showing there, I'm gonna start worrying.

The only problem with the last point is nobody but Hillary is on the ballot there, and I doubt any candidates will campaign there as a result.

I wouldn't be too worried--yet.

As for McCain, he's a bit off the mark. I think there is a better than average chance he will get the nomination, and, despite his shortcomings, he will beat either Clinton or Obama (but not Edwards). Remember, he has the media on his side shilling for him horribly.

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Hillary Clinton

stressed economic issues, and this may have helped give her the edge in New Hampshire.

Obama couldn't do shit but make some vague reference to "change."

Bill Clinton

sort of got teary-eyed over his wife's win last night.

Saner views prevailed, but Obama shouldn't even have had that much support.

Ninety-Six Percent

of the precincts reporting, and my last post on the results:

Democratic Primary Results
Tuesday, January 8
Real-time Race Results: Updated January 9, 2008 - 1:40 AM (all times Eastern Standard)
Precincts Reporting 96%
Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner
Clinton 110,550 39% 9 Winner
Obama 102,883 37% 9
Edwards 47,803 17% 4
Richardson 12,987 5% 0
Kucinich 3,845 1% 0
Biden 616 0% 0
Gravel 397 0% 0
Dodd 195 0% 0
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Estimated Delegates: 12
Republican Primary Results
Tuesday, January 8
Real-time Race Results: Updated January 9, 2008 - 1:41 AM (all times Eastern Standard)
Precincts Reporting 96%
Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner
McCain 86,802 37% 7 Winner
Romney 73,806 32% 4
Huckabee 26,035 11% 1
Giuliani 20,054 9% 0
Paul 17,831 8% 0
Thompson 2,808 1% 0
Hunter 1,195 0% 0

More About

Hillary Clinton's unexpected win over the Audacity of Hype.

AP Has Finally

called it for Hillary Clinton, thank God.

Clinton and Obama

have eight delegates each, but nobody is calling it with about 2/3rds of the vote counted.

Hillary's still up by three.

Fifty-Nine Percent

and the bastards still won't call it for Clinton:

Democratic Primary Results
Tuesday, January 8
Real-time Race Results: Updated January 8, 2008 - 10:01 PM (all times Eastern Standard)
Precincts Reporting 59%
Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner
Clinton 60,236 39% 0
Obama 56,460 37% 0
Edwards 25,844 17% 0
Richardson 7,308 5% 0
Kucinich 2,216 1% 0
Biden 344 0% 0
Gravel 208 0% 0
Dodd 112 0% 0

It's Tightened Again.

Democratic Primary Results
Tuesday, January 8
Real-time Race Results: Updated January 8, 2008 - 9:47 PM (all times Eastern Standard)
Precincts Reporting 51%
Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner
Clinton 53,127 39% 0
Obama 49,587 37% 0
Edwards 22,652 17% 0
Richardson 6,214 5% 0
Kucinich 1,925 1% 0
Biden 309 0% 0
Gravel 173 0% 0
Dodd 106 0% 0

Hillary Has Widened

her lead and the media won't declare a winner:

Democratic Primary Results
Tuesday, January 8
Real-time Race Results: Updated January 8, 2008 - 9:39 PM (all times Eastern Standard)
Precincts Reporting 47%
Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner
Clinton 49,741 40% 0
Obama 45,433 36% 0
Edwards 21,189 17% 0
Richardson 5,656 5% 0
Kucinich 1,799 1% 0
Biden 273 0% 0
Gravel 167 0% 0
Dodd 101 0% 0

Hillary's Widened Again.

Democratic Primary Results
Tuesday, January 8
Real-time Race Results: Updated January 8, 2008 - 9:31 PM (all times Eastern Standard)
Precincts Reporting 43%
Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner
Clinton 43,118 39% 0
Obama 40,318 36% 0
Edwards 18,513 17% 0
Richardson 5,135 5% 0
Kucinich 1,638 2% 0
Biden 224 0% 0
Gravel 145 0% 0
Dodd 90 0% 0
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Hillary's up by two now.

Forty-Two Percent.

The race is tightening:

Democratic Primary Results
Tuesday, January 8
Real-time Race Results: Updated January 8, 2008 - 9:27 PM (all times Eastern Standard)
Precincts Reporting 42%
Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner
Clinton 40,331 39% 0
Obama 38,223 37% 0
Edwards 17,295 17% 0
Richardson 4,901 5% 0
Kucinich 1,574 1% 0
Biden 207 0% 0
Gravel 133 0% 0
Dodd 85 0% 0