Congratulations to Hillary Clinton. You Go Girl!
NBC has called New Hampshire for Hillary. AP News is also calling it for Clinton. Update: It’s official.
As a woman, I gotta say, I couldn’t be more thrilled to see Hillary pull this off. This race isn’t over yet. I had tears in my eyes when I heard the [...]
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It’s still too close to call, but Hillary Clinton is leading with 65% of the precincts in. (Updating as the results change)
Per CNN: Clinton has 39% of the vote, Obama 37% and Edwards 17%.
With the race as tight as it is between Clinton and Obama, folks claiming Obama was a shoe-in after Iowa might want [...]
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NBC and The NY Times have called it for John McCain:
Sen. John McCain won New Hampshire’s Republican primary Tuesday, defeating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and climbing back into contention for the party’s presidential nomination. [...]
“We showed the people of this country what a real comeback looks like,” McCain said as he savored his triumph. [...]
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There’s been rumblings all day about a shakeup in the Clinton campaign including false rumors reported by Faux News, that Begala and Carville were jumping in. The Begala – Carville to the rescue story has been debunked and now Chris Cillizza on The Fix reports:
Maggie Williams, a longtime Hillary Clinton confidante, is reportedly being brought on [...]
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TNR has a piece on Ron Paul today that should be a wake up call on “The bigoted past of Ron Paul.” Here’s a quip:
Paul’s alliance with neo-Confederates helps explain the views his newsletters have long espoused on race. Take, for instance, a special issue of the Ron Paul Political Report, published in June 1992, [...]
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Word is that the turn out in New Hampshire is ‘absolutely huge’ today and there seems to be a run on Democratic ballots:
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Building on posts from Pamela (here and here) and others, Gloria Steinem makes a devastating charge in this morning’s NYT, arguing that Women are Never the Front-Runners:
“But what worries me is that [Obama] is seen as unifying by his race while [Clinton] is seen as divisive by her sex.”What worries me is that she is [...]
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Here’s the headline from WaPo today “Even Conservative Media Chorus Sings Obama’s Praises”. We now know the candidate the Republicans want nominated: Senator Barrack Obama.
Here’s a simple political reality that has held true for many, many years: If you want to knock down one opponent that you fear, bring in or back a surrogate you [...]
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Goodness gracious, are things heating up in New Hampshire. Voting has already been going on for hours, at this point.
Things are getting down and dirty. I hope there are plenty of hip-waders for all of us, because it is getting deep.
We’ll get into all of that, soon enough. But, let’s take a deep breath and [...]
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As is tradition in New Hampshire, the first votes in the New Hampshire primary were cast at Midnight in Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location.
Four years ago, the two towns favored Wesley Clark, but as we all know it was John Kerry who was the winner of the New Hampshire primary.
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