My Feelings on the New Hampshire Primary

Once again, a cartoonist sums up my idea nicely. Tony Auth of The Philadelphia Inquirer did this cartoon.

Going into Tuesday, I was afraid for Democracy. I was afraid that we had lost our way. Instead of having a primary process to weed out the weak and protect the strongest candidates, we instead simply publicized that the candidate that would be picked was, instead, just who the media wanted to win. After the Iowa Caucus, it seemed that was exactly what was going to happen.

In this case, the "Golden Boy" was Barack Obama, the 2-year-old Senator from Illinois. Ever since his upset of then-media darling Hillary Clinton, who was all but officially dubbed "President" at this point, the media were on him like flies on honey, calling his campaign "a message of hope and change" that was nearly "derailed by Clinton and Huckabee". That is actually a quote from Reuters. You can see it here. And people laugh when I tell them the media is biased.

So after preliminary polling showed Obama with a 10 - 15% lead (which, they later admitted, they didn't do enough of and too fast to get a story) was terribly, terribly, TERRIBLY wrong and Hilary Clinton was the winner, the media began it's spin once more and decided that the people of New Hampshire were, in fact, lying racists. The reality, though, is that they're not. Instead, you have an electorate that either said, "No, your not going to tell me who to vote for, I'm an adult who can make up my own god-damn mind!", or they enjoyed The Simpsons Sunday and decided that, yes, they were going to screw around with the overall media and instead pick someone else and keep this interesting. Or, even better, they just liked their candidate

The other news is that John McCain won New Hampshire. It's amazing, considering the fact that he was all but dead in June of 2007 and next to no one had any faith left in him. The fact that he has pretty much sided with Bush in terms of the war, and the "surge" working, helped him gain in the polls. It's interesting to note that most Independent Voters actually did vote for John McCain as well.

Mitt Romney finsihed Second, but despite that, he is still in First Place in the Republican ticket with the most votes and delegates. Not being reported, but I don't know why. It's interesting because now the media is trying to get him to drop out if he doesn't win in the next battleground, Michigan.

On that same note, Senator Obama is currently beating Clinton in terms of delegates and votes. He will not be in the ballot in Michigan, along with John Edwards, so it should be an easy win for Hillary and she will be in the lead again. My question: How will this effect Dennis Kuchinich, and could he, the lone GOOD Democrat, pull off a major upset and, if not win, get more than enough to come in a MASSIVE second?

Ron Paul finished in 5th again, narrowly losing to Rudy Guliani. Disappointing to some, but not Ron Paul! Ron has been spending his money wisely and is doing everything he can to make a MASSIVE showing on Super Tuesday, when Ron Paul strongholds such as California and New York vote. This could make it interesting! GO, RON PAUL, GO!