It’s not just Kossacks who think Hillary cheated in New Hampshire. This morning on the Chris Core show on local D.C. radio, numerous callers offered conspiracy theories of Hillary bringing in out-of-state voters to win New Hampshire.

There’s not much clear evidence of that, but there is something a little odd, though. Despite the widespread mockery, the polls beforehand weren’t terribly that far off in any category… except hers.

For starters, let’s look at the GOP results. In New Hampshire on the Republican side, with 99 percent of precincts reporting, the percentages are McCain 37, Romney 31, Huck 11, Rudy 9.

The margins in the last six polls on RCP: Romney by 4 (whoops, Suffolk/WHDH!), McCain by 7, McCain by 9, McCain by 1, McCain by 5, McCain by 4. That’s a pretty respectable showing.

Also note that the polls pretty much nailed how the non-frontrunners would perform. Huckabee finished with 11, and was slated at 11, 13, 9, 8, 10, and 8 percent in those last six polls. Rudy finished with 9 percent and was slated at 11, 13, 9, 8, 10 and 5 percent.

Even on the Democratic side, John Edwards finished with 17 percent and Bill Richardson got 5 percent. The last seven polls put Edwards at 15, 20, 17, 19, 16, 22, and 19 percent. Richardson polled at 4, 4, 5, 9, 7, 7 and 5 percent. So pollsters had no trouble getting reasonably close to these guys’ finishes.

Obama finished with 37 percent. Even here, the pollsters didn’t overestimate him by leaps and bounds – they had him at 39, 40, 43, 37, 39, 36 and 35 percent.

It was only with Hillary’s share of the vote that they were way off. She finished with 39 percent, and was polling at 34, 31, 29, 30, 30, 28 and 28 percent.

So why were Hillary’s numbers so out of whack with the last pre-election polls, while almost everyone else was more or less within the margin of error?