Marathon Pundit: Hillary, McCain win in the Granite State

Well who wrote this about Hillary Clinton's prospects in the New Hampshire Primary on Monday afternoon?

Don't count her out just yet. The people of New Hampshire relish their "first primary in the nation" distinction, and some votes may come her way courtesy of some very self-conscious Granite Staters

Oh, that was me.

Of course, sometimes I'm wrong.

But at least for now, it's premature to press the delete button on the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign. Not by a huge amount, but she edged Barack Obama (more on him in the next post) in the New Hampshire primary.

John McCain won on the Republican end. I pretty much wrote him off last summer in this post, where I compared the McCain campaign to the 18th Century partition of Poland. (Yes, I'm wrong sometimes.) That's McCain up on top giving his victory speech in Nashua, New Hampshire, taken from a TV monitor in front of Dulles Airport's gate D15, as I waited to board my flight back to Chicago last night.

The big loser last night was Republican Mitt Romney, who spent tons of money and time in New Hampshire, as well as in Iowa, and ended up on second place both times. Romney of course is the former governor of neighboring Massachusetts, and the bulk of New Hampshire's population is whithin the broadcast reach of Boston radio and television stations.

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