This doesn't make sense to me given the result, but...
Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire viewed Senator Barack Obama as more likely than Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to beat the Republican nominee in 2008, according to exit polls conducted Tuesday, a reversal of the previous trends in national polls.
...e.g. "What was the most important reason you voted for your candidate?", "most likely to beat the Republican candidate" was low under the list.
Which I am guessing means that the Democratic voters are not too worried about an R win. Have to admit, I'm the cautious type but I don't see the R's winning as very likely either.
2. There are all kinds of variables that aren't really answered by
the tangle of polls. The MSM always manages to have toilet paper on their shoe by inserting themselves too much into the process. Anything could have happened.
Perhaps the MSM Magic 8 ball prediction that Obama would kill in a landslide was enough to convince any indies that might have voted for him that his position was safe and they could vote in the GOP primary instead. Well, that's the consensus among my tin foil hat-wearing friends.
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