If there’s a clear message of any kind in the New Hampshire numbers, I’m danged if I can find it.
Hillary got the gals, for sure, especially the unmarried ones. She is, in fact, the Spinster Candidate:
Clinton won nearly half the women’s vote, compared to only one-third for Obama … Single women offered the strongest support, by a 17 point margin.
People who believe there is some point to the Iraq war like McCain. People who don’t, also like McCain:
among the 34 percent [of Republicans] who said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the GOP field — even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole advocate of a U.S. withdrawal in the Republican field.
Perhaps the anti-war McCainiacs believe he’ll win and get out, while the anti-war Paulines believe he’ll just get out.
Even evangelicals don’t seem to be so, er, easily led:
Compared with the Iowa caucuses, where 60 percent of Republicans described themselves as evangelicals, exit polls in New Hampshire put evangelical turnout at about 21 percent. Among those evangelical voters, Huckabee got only 32 percent, while McCain got 31 percent.
So there you have it: Hillary the Spinster Candidate, McCain the evangelical anti-war candidate. Or something.
One of Steve Sailer’s readers claims that among voters under 24, Ron Paul got more votes than Hillary. It wouldn’t surprise me, but I can’t find numbers to confirm.






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