Senator Hillary Clinton wins New Hampshire!

I can't say I'm not disappointed, but Senator Clinton's 109,567 votes beat Senator Barack Obama's 101,916 votes to win the Democratic New Hampshire primary. Senator john "grandpa" mccain won the republican primary with 86,078 votes. This marks the first time in history that there were four different winners in the first two primaries. And the way South Carolina is shaping up it might be six winners in the first three primaries (See Edwards and thompson).

There are certainly benefits to a party primary season that doesn't have the coronation right away, and by right away I mean after the first one or two "contests" (the campaigns started a year ago). The longer it remains a contested race, the more the primaries in the other FORTY EIGHT states will matter. People may even start feeling like "their vote counts" and anything that does that is a good thing, right? It makes it all feel a bit more democratic. Candidates also get more time to talk about their "plans". I've been barraged by detail seekers who long for "substance" from the candidates, and after a quick jab like "you mean how gore and kerry gave them, you know, like an economics professor?", I agree with them. But if you are sick of waiting for Katie Couric or the increasingly misogynistic chris matthews to ask "real" questions and then ask follow up questions for more details, you can go to the campaigns' websites for more "substance". If that's not to "pro-active" for you. Here are Hillary Clinton's "plans", Barack Obama's "plans", and John Edwards's "plans". Grist actually has a good "How green is your candidate?" page, too. It's really quite interesting to see this whole thing play out. It's a shame all the primaries are crammed into one month. What the hell have we been watching for the past year? Votes are so much better than polls. I wish the primaries were once a week for a year, a real Nationwide tour for the next leader of the American People.

In other primary related news, bill o'lielly, whose "news network" Obama has boycotted since their Lies about Barack's early education in Indonesia and whining about him not wearing his patriotic pledge pin, tried (a la Michael Moore) to "get an interview" with the Democrat at an event in New Hampshire. The arrogant baby of a man gave a shove and some weak "strong" words when a member of the Senator Obama's staff was in the way of "his" shot. Not to worry, the Secret Service didn't tase him for attempting to disrupt an event or getting physical. Poor little vibrator expert billo. You can smell the desperation on some of the attack dogs. He wasn't the only red air bag to have a bad week. Sean "i have an ass for a head" hannity was followed to his car by a bunch of Ron Paul supporters who were shouting "fox news sucks" all the way. A fine moment of writerless television indeed.

And just to end with some Democrat news, Obama picked up endorsements from Bill Bradley, Larry David, and the Culinary Union of Nevada. Ralph Nader endorsed John Edwards. And Former President Bill and Senator Hillary Clinton went on the attack and then Hillary cried.

Oh yeah and "the flipper" won the Wyoming primary.

Hopefully the next rant/post/web log will be about news outside of Campaign 2008. You know like hundreds of Kenyans dying while protesting the latest election there, the price of gas, heating oil and food, the rising jobless rate, the recession, and president junior's first trip as president to "the middle east".