The Real Losers In New Hampshire

Plenty of candidates ran last night up in the Granite state, but there were only two true losers in that race. None of them were Democrats. All the front runners including Edwards had tremendous support and overall Democrats had a 55-45 advantage in total votes. That leads us to the first loser, the Republican party. The GOP is out of step with America and its candidates can't even lead the followers that are left over. The change in New Hampshire is evident across the country, as many states are turning "purple" like Colorado, Virginia and even Goldwater Country Arizona.

People are realizing that when push comes to shove, the Republican party has shifted far to the right and after a while, many are seeing that when they look inward, they see the Democrat within.

Now for those that are already Democrats and have seen the light in a previous election cycle, we saw the pundits and pollsters try (and fail) to predict the outcome last night. I went along with the hype (pushed by the wind in my sails not to see Hillary get the nomination) that Obama was going to cruise to a landslide victory and then collect delegates by the hundreds before the convention was even close to happening. I'm still an Edwards supporter and stick with him to this very moment, but I'm still aware of what is going on at the present time.

Anyways, this brings me to our second loser from last night, the press. We all know they suck and the New Hampshire primary coverage proves it. They tried to guess at what the voters would do instead of actually reported on the process and it was abysmal failure. Tom Brokaw saw the truth of the situation, and promptly excoriated one of the ringleaders of the punditry in excellent fashion. And of course don't forget the pollsters in all of this, but still remember that their information is reported by those pundits and "journalists."

So congrats to the Democratic Party last night, and pooh pooh to the Republicans and the media. I'd love to see a concession speech from both, but I won't hold my breath.