by Frank James
Mac is indeed back! Sen. John McCain is projected to be the winner of the New Hampshire primary with a decisive win over Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and his rival for the Republican presidential nomination. McCain has about 37 percent of the vote to Romney's 28 percent.
On the Democratic side, the numbers are very tight, with 31of the state's 301 precincts reporting. Sen. Hillary Clinton has 39 percent of the vote and Sen. Barack Obama at 37 percent.
CNN and WMUR are both providing numbers on their websites, with CNN's coming in a bit faster.
Obviously, the numbers can changes significantly. If the Democratic race remains this close, and Clinton winds up winning, then the polls were way off since Obama had been running a double-digit lead.
If she winds up winning, it could also mean that many of the independents went Republican and voted for McCain.
A Clinton win would revitalize her campaign after Obama's stunning victory in Iowa. It would also raises the importance of South Carolina and Nevada.
On the Republican side, McCain did well not only with independents but with Republicans as well. That could bode well as he moves forward into Michigan and South Carolina, an indication that many Republicans are willing to forgive him for campaign finance reform and illegal immigration.
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Comments
The Wingnut vote goes to the crazy old man.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
It must suck to be a Republic Party member these days.
Posted by: John E | January 8, 2008 8:45 PM
Let's see how old, corrupt, incompetent St. McCain does down in S.Carolina. 100 years in Iraq is OK by him. If you like Shrub, you'll love McCain.
Posted by: weinerdog43 | January 8, 2008 10:03 PM
The slander from the John Es of the world just didn't work!
Where press, where are your jokes today about the "bankrupt" campaign and how long it will be until McCain drops out?
Angry democrats, PLEASE continue to bring your vitriol and your hate to this space. Continue to slander McCain in every tasteless and classless way you have for the past year. Say he's too old. Bring up that he graduated third from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, a fact McCain readily admits in "Faith of My Fathers."
Continue to ignore his graduation with flying colors from five years in the school of hard knocks that is the Hanoi Hilton. A place where his resolve and his loyalty to the United States of America never wavered.
Continue to ignore how he called for the troop surge that has brought more peace to Iraq today three years before it happened.
Continue to ignore his wealth of experience getting things done in both the Pentagon and the U.S. Senate, where he delivered the landmark overhaul of campaign finance that is McCain-Feingold, now upheld by the Supreme Court.
Continue to ignore that this is the man ready to lead his country from day one and ready to hunt down Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice.
Ignore it all. The people of New Hampshire haven't and Michigan and South Carolina won't, either.
p.s. Didn't some of you guys post that Obama had New Hampshire locked up? Wha, wha, wha hoppen?
Posted by: Jeff | January 8, 2008 10:38 PM
p.s. Didn't some of you guys post that Obama had New Hampshire locked up? Wha, wha, wha hoppen?
Posted by: Jeff | January 8, 2008 10:38 PM
McCain will win just this ONE STATE, Jeffy. and now you'll have to pack up your flag and go home.
As for Obama, I still like his chances.
I think your missing the bigger picture Bill/Jeff, America want's a DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, not some senile old man who babbles on about staying in Iraq for 100 years.
Posted by: John E | January 8, 2008 11:46 PM
"Continue to ignore that this is the man ready to lead his country from day one and ready to hunt down Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice."
Sorry, Sept. 11th happened on the Republic party's watch and now, 7 years later, he still has not been brought to justice. St. McCain only brings more of the same level of incompetence. It's time for responsible and competent leadership. Anyone on the Democratic side, from Kucinich to Clinton has that in spades. On your side...not so much.
Posted by: weinerdog43 | January 9, 2008 7:40 AM
Heh, heh, Kucinich. You guys are funny.
McCain called for the surge three years before it happened and now things are looking better in Iraq. That doesn't look like incompetence to me.
I do like the "democratic" ideas about the war on terror, though. There's some incompetence. Did you see when Charlie Gibson asked them all "how, exactly, will you get us out of Iraq?"
Obama threw out some platitudes like he always does, Hillary said she's not even sure if she could, and Bill Richardson started babbling about removing 17 people a week until their were none left.
Yeah, that's leadership. America wants that. Sure.
Remember, keep posting this kind of stuff:
"not some senile old man who babbles on"
... it doesn't make you look angry or bitter at all.
Posted by: Jeff | January 9, 2008 11:51 AM
Angry democrats, PLEASE continue to bring your vitriol and your hate to this space. Continue to slander McCain in every tasteless and...
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Ummm, wasn't it boy george and kkkarl that was slandering McCain in 2000? Does that mean the repubics also have hatred and vitriol, are classless and tasteless?
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The commercials, which began running on Wednesday on local stations throughout the three states, open with a picture of Mr. McCain superimposed over smokestacks belching dirty air.
The voiceover says Mr. McCain voted against solar and renewable energy programs, leading to "more use of coal-burning plants that pollute our air."
The narrator goes on to say that Mr. Bush "led one of the first states in America to clamp down on old coal-burning electric power plants" and that the Texas governor was "leading so each day dawns brighter."
http://www.boycottgreenmountain.com/mccain-ads-nyt.html
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In South Carolina, the ad -- jointly funded by NRLC PAC and its state affiliate, the South Carolina Citizens for Life PAC -- makes a lot of hay about a 1992 McCain vote in favor of overturning the ban on fetal tissue research. The ad, which began running on Monday, bemoans McCain's "flip-flop" on the 1992 ban. A closer examination of the vote shows it is a bad litmus test for pro-life credentials.
http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/01/14/mccain/index.html
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Third-party attack dogs helped pull the Texan through in what turned out to be the critical states of South Carolina and New York. South Carolina residents were barraged with messages assailing John McCain on abortion. They were targeted by mysterious groups with names like the National Smokers Alliance, which ran anti-McCain ads, and Keep It Flying, which praised Bush and attacked McCain on the Confederate flag, even though both men had adopted equally mushy positions on the issue. They were assaulted by telephone push polls that disparaged McCain’s integrity and raised questions about his wife’s former drug addiction.
http://www.dailyhowler.com/h051700_1.shtml
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More hypocritical garbage from Swamp infesting erectile-dysfunctional military-wrecking xenophobic inbred World War III-agitating trailer trash dating selfish race-card-playing Busheviks. But then, who's surprised?
Posted by: rncbs | January 9, 2008 2:16 PM