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Who won NH?

Posted in 2008 Election on January 9th, 2008

The New Hampshire Primary is over and the press is proclaiming the results to the world at large. According to the media Clinton and McCain won their respective races. But is this actually the case? That depends on how you look at the primaries and caucuses.

The Democratic results from NH were: Clinton 110,550 (39%); Obama: 102,883 (36%); Edwards: 47,803 (17%); Richardson: 12,987 (5%); Kucinich: 3,845 (1%). This shows that Sen. Clinton barely edged out Sen. Obama, but did win the popular vote in the NH Primary. This is what the media is reporting about.

Let us look at the practical matter of the allotment of delegates, since it’s these delegates who will actually nominate the Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate. It’s these men and women, plus 852 “superdelegates”, who will determine which candidate is nominated. Democratic primaries and caucuses award delegates on a proportional basis. Below is the break down of delegates for the 2008 NH Primary:

Hillary Clinton won 9 New Hampshire delegates
Barack Obama won 9 New Hampshire delegates
John Edwards won 4 New Hampshire delegates

From the perspective of delegates the 2008 NH Democratic Primary was a tie between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.

On the Republican side of the 2008 Election race the results were more conclusive: McCain 86,802 (37%); Romney 73,806 (32%); Huckabee 26,035 (11%); Giuliani 20,054 (9%); Paul 17,831 (8%); Thompson 2,808 (1%). This shows McCain as a solid winner of the popular vote in the Republican primary.

Let us once again look at the practical matter of the allotment of delegates, since it’s these delegates who will actually nominate the Republican Party’s Presidential Candidate.

John McCain won 7 New Hampshire delegates
Mitt Romney won 4 New Hampshire delegates
Mike Huckabee won 1 New Hampshire delegate

John McCain actually did win the 2008 NH Republican Primary in all practical ways.

NH Primary – 10PM

Posted in 2008 Election on January 8th, 2008

10:00PM EST, January 8th, 2008 – with over 50% of the precincts having reported, the results are currently:

Democratic party with 59% reporting:

Clinton 60,839 39%
Obama 57,013 37%
Edwards 25,845 17%
Richardson 7,409 5%
Kucinich 2,240 1%
Dodd 388 0%
Biden 343 0%
Gravel 209 0%

Republican party with 57% reporting:

McCain 46,600 37%
Romney 39,501 31%
Huckabee 14,242 11%
Giuliani 10,926 9%
Paul 9,917 8%
Thompson 1,487 1%
Hunter 645 1%

Frankly the result are still very much up in the air. The Obama v. Clinton battle is much closer than was to be expected, especially since none of the pundits expected an early lead by Hillary. The Romney v. McClain battle is shaping up to be far closer than the MSM would like us to believe.