The New Hampshire verdict; NBC, Fox calls it for McCain; Romney: “Another silver, I’d rather have a gold;” “Mac is back!;” Update: AP calls race for Hillary, Fox projects Hillary the winner; Obama concedes
Update 11:08pm Eastern. I broke out liveblogging of Hillary’s exultation here.
Update 10:49pm Eastern. Obama takes the stage: “I am still fired up and ready to go. I want to congratulate Sen. Clinton on a hard-fought victory here.”
Obama’s giving a morale-boosting speech to his troops, but let’s face it: This is a stunner.
“Change is what’s happening in America,” says Obama.
Well, yeah. Everyone’s changing their predictions. Changing their forecasts. Changing their bets. (And in my case, changing my column filed earlier today anticipating a Hillary loss!)
Obama’s back to lobbying for increasing teacher pay.
Yawn.
Update 10:35pm Eastern. Hmmmm. The Associated Press is calling the race for Hillary. All the talking heads are now confidently asserting the reasons Hillary won: It was the tears. It was Bill Clinton. It was independents.
Maybe they should wait until the last vote is counted.
Or does everyone just want to get to bed?
10:27pm Eastern. John Edwards just spoke. Questions: Can’t he find something else to do? Surf fishing? Golf? Shouldn’t his kids be in bed? Maybe he could another book for HarperCollins? Oh, wait. No…
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Alright. All eyes are on the surprisingly close results on the Dem side. Here’s the NYT’s map of the precinct returns as of 9:32pm Eastern with 44 percent reporting. There’s still quite a way to go. I think a Red Bull is in order.
Question of the hour: If Obama loses, will we start hearing about how racist America still is?
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Scroll down for updates…9:00pm Michael Barone thinks Hillary can pull off a win tonight…9:13pm McCain on stage: “We sure showed ‘em what a comeback looks like…9:21pm Eastern We are the makers of history, not its victims.”
I’m starting a new NH primary thread now that the polls have officially closed. Here’s last night’s thread from midnight to eight.
Fox News Exit polls reporting:
McCain 35
Romney 30
Huckabee 13
Obama 39
Clinton 34
Edwards 18
With 10 percent of precincts reporting, CNN’s projects that Edwards will come in third. CNN has:
McCain 37
Romney 28
Huck 12
Giuliani 9
8:11pm Eastern update. Clinton’s now 38, Obama 36.
8:14pm Eastern update. NBC calls the GOP race for McCain. Fox calls for McCain. I asked the question once before. Time to ask it again:
8:27pm Eastern update. Just wanted to remind you of how much contempt John McCain has shown the grass-roots over the past year. In January 2007, he cursed and grumbled about immigration enforcement activists who’ve spotlighted the chaotic state of the borders:
A day earlier, in Milwaukee, in front of an audience of more sympathetic businessmen, McCain had been asked how debate over the immigration bill was playing politically. “In the short term, it probably galvanizes our base,” he said. “In the long term, if you alienate the Hispanics, you’ll pay a heavy price.” Then he added, unable to help himself, “By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.”
And here’s McCain’s fear-mongering rant from June 2007 warning about Paris-style ethnic riots if we get serious about deporting law-breakers:
At one point McCain went back and forth with one audience member, who said he was upset that the immigration proposal before Congress is not tough enough.
The man asked McCain why the United States couldn’t execute large-scale deportations, as he had heard they did in France and other countries.
“In case you hadn’t noticed, the thousands of people who have been relegated to ghettos have risen up and burned cars in France,” McCain replied. “They’ve got huge problems in France. They have tremendous problems. The police can’t even go into certain areas in the suburbs of Paris. I don’t want that in the suburbs of America.”
8:48pm Eastern update. Romney speaks. “Another silver, I’d rather have the gold.” Congratulates McCain. Thanks state staff/supporters.
9:00pm Eastern update. Michael Barone thinks Hillary Clinton might eke out a win. Huckabee takes the stage to congratulate McCain and Romney,thank his organization.
9:13pm Eastern update. McCain basks in victory: “We sure showed ‘em what a comeback looks like.” Reading his staff’s stump speech, McCain looks forward to the next win. Crowd shouts “Michigan! Michigan! Michigan!” Ending: “Tomorrow we begin again.”
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As many have said of John McCain, we have the utmost respect for his service to our country and for his years as a POW. For that we honor him. However, he also has many glitches in his armor not the least of which are his (very) wrong views on immigration/amnesty and of course his corroboration with Uncle Ted on the Campaign reform debacle. Two serious strikes. And, he’s too much one of the good ol’ boys in the “congass”. If he gets the nomination? Well, I don’t see any reason not to support him. To do otherwise is to cut off our noses to spite our faces. That would amount to lowering ourselves to the Democrats and throwing one of their whine fests/tantrums we decry them for. No, we will have to react as the mature adults we are and support a Republican to avoid a Democrat in the Whitehouse AT ALL COSTS. Besides, if enough of us put the pressure on, maybe John can wise up, grow BACK his POW testicles and tell Uncle Ted and the other “good ol’ boys” to go screw themselves.
My two cents. FWIW.
Jacob, thank you for the count above!
McCain and his media sycophats need to shout about his NH win, as hopefully, it will be his last.
Besides, other comments have mentioned that there are many more states than Iowa and NH. It ain’t decided by a long shot. This just gives fodder (or feed lot refuse) to the media and they don’t mean refuse anyway. The year is young yet.
Oops, syncophant it what I meant to say.
FOX used to be fair and balanced. I don’t think so this election cycle. They all seem to be pulling for McCain or Huck.
It’s a Victimologist’s dream. If Obama wins the nomination, it’s feel good superiority complex. If he loses, it’s continuous proof of racist America. Rinse and repeat for winning the nomination onto the actual election.
I think it’s Feminism’s fault. Had their silence against Bill Clinton not been so defeanding, with a dash of their continuous silence on Muslim women ringing in our ears, then their message of Inherent Sexism would have at least kept Hillary a contender instead of the Inherent Racism message running away with the election.
Sometimes it can be hard on liberals to know which particular message of the overall America Is Evil agenda to promote.
Ack, it’s “deafening”.
At this point because of the delgate count, Huck and McCain should drop out.
With its demographics, New Hampshire would be the last place to be aware of the magnitude of the invasion of illegals. (Does anyone believe Washington’s lowball estimate of 12 million?)
Their ignorance is McCain’s strength.
Lousy pilot. The government should make him pay back the cost of the F4 Phantom he lost. I figure about $13 million in today’s dollars.
In my book, McCain used up his POW sympathy by supporting policies that have caused a thousandfold more suffering to Americans than he endured:
McCain was hotheaded and churlish in the debates last weekend.
If he displays his pettiness for any length of time, everyone is going to hate him.
He cannot blow enough smoke to cover up the fact that he was and is so wrong on immigration.
Romney is not my man, either.
Will Fred ever get his act together?
Lindsey, Fox has been sliding left for the last few yrs…I guess their about middle-left now. I find it harder and harder to watch any of their shows. I’m down 3.5 and that’s pushing it.
A Hillary win is a good thing Maybe it will suck out all the air from McCain
Yeah, in CA alone. Since I moved here a little over a decade ago, the population has grown significantly. And if you look at the stats of WHERE the growth has been over the past decade, you’ll notice that the border counties have the highest growth rate.
A little dated, but look at the facts here:
Scroll down and you’ll see the section on how fast counties are growing.
How about FRAUD?
BO isn’t about change. He’s spawn of the establishment and status quo. His DNA is exactly the same as every other big government bureaucrat: it has the tax and spend double-helix dominant chromosome. He’s a mouth-breathing booger eater…one of my favorite Calvin & Hobbes zingers!
Obama can give a speech. Even a poorly written one, he delivered it well. Republicans need to be careful what they ask for: Hillary or Obama in the general.
R.J.
Um, just heard the “Yes we can” preacher speech by Barack. Is there anyone who can tell me what, if anything, he stands for, other than his election to the White House? If he’s the candidate for “change”, what’s the change? Is it really better for all Americans? Or are we just electing another leader on charisma alone?
In 2012 NH and Iowa should vote last any states that pick Huck and McCain should not get to decide next time.
Alphonse #106: Re: your pilot comment, ouch! Nasty. Still, you have points about his policies effects. Still again, do they and other things make him worse than BO or HC? Are they worth trashing him and trashing the Whitehouse putting it in the hands of either Democrat candidates? Y’all can’t be that serious. I hope. Again, that would be pulling a whine-out/tantrum we despise the Dems for. No, I DON’T want McCain as candidate, but should stupider heads prevail (gad…) do we stick OUR heads in the sand? I think NOT.
Having worked for Dem machines in both MD and Chicago, I was immediately suspicious when I heard that polling stations had run out of ballots by late morning. Perhaps the stock of ballots had been previously filled in. Or, perhaps some people were taking advantage of NH’s permissive motor-voter law.
Does anyone know whether there are chads on NH ballots?
chsw (would have posted earlier but just got home)
As I sit here, discouraged, listening to Hillary give her victory speech, watching Bill and Chelsea climb onto the stage with those big phony smiles I can only think “What will it take to get rid of these people?”
Now she breaks into her typical strident divisivness BS and how she is going to fight, fight, fight etc.. I see people cheering wildly after each hollow, phony remark. What do they see? What am I missing that drives them wild? This country nearly rid itself of this curse and now it is back, worse that ever.
Yes! What will it take to get rid of the Clintons? GAAAAAAAAAA! Why are they still here? How stupid can the public get? Apparently, quite…!
Keep in mind that a typical northeast conservative Republican=typical Heartland (sans PRI – Peoples Republik of Illinois and Michigan) moderate Democrat. There is a VAST difference between the northeast and west coast and the America most of us know, love and would fight to the death to maintain. Iowa is marginally representative of the Heartland the same way that NH is marginally representative of the northeast. Both are more closely representative of the national democrat voter than the national conservative voter. This explains the MSM’s fascination and over-emphasis on these two primaries. Both states more closely represent MSM bigotry and bias than the people of the vast majority of America’s land mass.
If the GOP and it’s candidates can do something right for a change and wait until Super Tuesday to hear from the majority of the Heartland, and if Heartland voters can avoid an anal-cranial inversion brought on by MSM propaganda, we will soon know the true mood of the Republican base.
Rush Limbaugh detests McCain. Rush also knows Huckabee is a RINO. Rudy is a one-trick pony. That leaves Mitt and Fred. Rush will decide who is the nominee. I think he will go with Mitt. As Rush goes, so goes the Republicans. McCain has zero chance to be nominated, thank God!