Posted on 01/08/2008 7:32:20 PM PST by Aristotelian
In a stunning upset victory, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton beat Sen. Barack Obama in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary election in New Hampshire.
LOL
Sadly , I agree with you . The end is near folks.Be ready for The Great American Socialism Experiment
“Just goes to show how totally full of sh~!t the pollsters are these days. I don’t think you can even call it legitimate statistics anymore ~ they’re anything they want to be.”
The pollsters are helpless if the voters lie to them. It’s called the Bradley effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
True , true and true again. They are VERY dangerous and don’t ever forget that .
All the pre election talk was of an Obama blow out and the Republicans deadlocked.
So it looks that a lot of the Independents, who can vote in either primary, said "Well heck, my vote will not count in the Dems election so I will go vote for my boy John McCain."
That would explain this massive last second swing away from Obama and towards McCain. It would also explain why Hillary is won if a bunch of Obama leaning independents went over to McCain based on the assumption that "Obama will win anyway, my vote will count over here"
All the rest of the vote results are coming out right in line with the pre election polls. Huck at 12, Rudy and Paul duking it out for 4th at 9% and Fred at 1. Edwards 17, Richardson 5, Kucinich 2.
It only at the top of the ticket, on both sides Dem and Republican that the results are wrong. Obama lost to Hillary, McCain did much better then predicted
I hope she tries it again in the general election.
It would be Clintoon/Dole ‘96 all over again. God help us.
McCain would have destroyed Obama.
Now he will when by 5% over Hillary.
In any event, the presidency is assured.
Now if conservatives in Congress would just get there act together and stay out of bathroom stalls, and pages pockets.
I think we will find that this is a prime example of machine politics at it’s worst/best. The Clinton Machine and the Democrat establishment likely brought in the big guns and manufactured this win. I doubt fraud was involved but given the turnout everyone was talking about, the machinery got to work and got all hands on deck to squash this newcomer and let him know who is in charge.
There isn’t enough money in the world to get me to watch her victory speech.
I don’t believe this for one second. But a a Clinton they can get away with anything. Anything.
True, but most pundits thought a big turnout bode well for Obama.
It turns out the big turnout helped Hillary!
Which suggests fraud of some kind.
I don’t see how any single person could be torn between McCain and Obama. They are miles apart choices. ( both crappy ones though )
That’s a good reminder on that aspect of the caucus - no wonder the white liberals supported Obama there. Bingo!
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