Clinton Takes New Hampshire

DEMOCRATSMagic Number 2,025

Obama 25		Clinton 24		Edwards 18

Full Democratic Scorecard

REPUBLICANSMagic Number 1,191

Romney 23		Huckabee 17		McCain 9
Thompson 6		Paul 2		Hunter 1

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Clinton - McCain Leading in New Hampshire Primaries

Source: CNN

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY January 08, 2008

Race	Status	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Del*	Precincts
New Hampshire Updated 0 minutes ago County Results Exit Poll		Clinton	17,008	40%	0	13% reporting
		Obama	14,959	35%	0
		Edwards	7,077	17%	0
		Richardson	1,832	5%	0
		Kucinich	803	2%	0
		Biden	75	0%	0
		Gravel	58	0%	0
		Dodd	35	0%	0

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY January 08, 2008

Race	Status	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Del*	Precincts
New Hampshire Updated 0 minutes ago County Results Exit Poll		McCain	9,741	37%	0	13% reporting
		Romney	7,523	29%	0
		Huckabee	3,174	12%	0
		Giuliani	2,465	9%	0
		Paul	2,186	8%	0
		Thompson	381	1%	0
		Hunter	153	1%	0

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Obama Speech Transcript Dec. 27 2007

(Photo by Darin Codon of Branson, Missouri)Barrack Obama was on fire during the last days of the Iowa campaign. We posted 6 minutes of his speech below. A few days later, in our presence he would add the now famous phrase,"I'm a hope monger."

Our team saw Obama on January 30th, three days after the speech transcript linked below was delivered.
Reporters embedded in Obama's campaign saw the speech as a turning point - they noted his delivery was smoother than ever.
Perhaps, the Senator from Illinois began to believe himself that a victory in Iowa was possible. From early reports from New Hampshire - a primary win in NH seems inevitable.

Barrack Obama Des Moines Iowa Transcript Dec, 27th 2007

Barack Obama shows why foreigners consider us naive. (by Brett Stephens Wall Street Journal)

Great opinion piece by Brett Stephens this morning.

...When foreigners assail Americans for being naive, it is often on account of contrasts like these. A nation in which the poor are defined by an income level that in most countries would make them prosperous is a nation that has all but forgotten the true meaning of poverty. A nation in which obesity is largely a problem of the poor (and anorexia of the upper-middle class) does not understand the word "hunger." A nation in which the most celebrated recent cases of racism, at Duke University or in Jena, La., are wholly or mostly contrived is not a racist nation. A nation in which our "division" is defined by the vitriol of Ann Coulter or James Carville is not a truly divided one--at least while Mr. Carville is married to Republican operative Mary Matalin and Ms. Coulter is romantically linked with New York City Democrat Andrew Stein.

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Gloria Steinem - New York Times - Women are never Frontrunners

In one of the most incredible pieces of rhetoric ever delivered to congress Gloria Steinem declared Women are "biologically superior to men" while pushing for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  . Speaking to a non-interested congressional crowd, Steinem declared women could replace the word black seamlessly  during the civil rights movement. Steinem's approach to gender politics remains unchanged. The article posted below was published in the New York Times this morning.

THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6. Herself the daughter of a white American mother and a black African father — in this race-conscious country, she is considered black — she served as a state legislator for eight years, and became an inspirational voice for national unity.

Be honest: Do you think this is the biography of someone who could be elected to the United States Senate? After less than one term there, do you believe she could be a viable candidate to head the most powerful nation on earth?

If you answered no to either question, you're not alone. Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House. This country is way down the list of countries electing women and, according to one study, it polarizes gender roles more than the average democracy.

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Former Republican House Leader Dick Arney Says Huckabee is counterproductive

With a definitive win in last week's Iowa caucus, Mike Huckabee talked himself into the frontrunner position for the Republican presidential nomination. His folksy demeanor and populist promises are central to his appeal, but they mask a strategy designed to divide the conservative movement. If the Republican party chooses to follow Huckabee's lead, it will allow political sweet talk to destroy its greatest electoral and policy-making advantage: the GOP's traditional political consensus built around limiting the size and scope of government.

Mike Huckabee abandoned conservative governance long ago. As governor of Arkansas from 1996-2007, his record on economic issues was long and dismal. He raised the sales tax and passed a tax on gasoline, increasing the state's overall average tax burden by almost 50 percent. Spending shot up more than 65 percent under his leadership. In the current campaign, he supports expensive, restrictive energy legislation, a misguided new national sales tax, and nanny-state notions like a federal smoking ban.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/01/huckabees_counterproductive_sw.html


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