Clinton and Obama tied in NH

I know that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in New Hampshire. However, they are splitting the total number of delegates from NH, so technically they actually tied with nine delegates apiece.

One of the political pundits on Newshour with Jim Lehrer suggested that the Bush Administration released news stories of the Iranian boats and images of Bush going to the Middle East on the day of the NH primary to bring National Security back in the spotlight. Somebody else retorted that the Bush Administration was neither that smart or calculating to do something like that. It makes for an fascinating conspiracy theory though.

As my former classmate pointed out to me, less than 2% of the total population has voted so far. With John Kerry endorsing Obama, it could be an extremely close race with lots of in-fighting between the Democrats. The next few weeks are going to be very interesting.

Since the Superbowl is only a few days before Super Tuesday, there is going to be a lot of news fighting for mindshare.