Who won the New Hampshire Primary?
If you define "win" as "gets the most delegates for the convention" - which is the point after all - then you have an interesting situation:
So by my count that is 1.5 for Obama and .5 for Clinton.
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama each won nine delegates in New Hampshire's Democratic primary, followed by former Sen. John Edwards with 4 delegates, an AP analysis of primary results shows. All 22 of New Hampshire's delegates to the national convention this summer have been allocated.
Clinton and Obama won the same number of delegates, even though Clinton edged Obama in votes, because New Hampshire awards delegates proportionally, and the vote was relatively close.
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I had the same thought when I saw the results. It's interesting how everyone likes to pick a single winner. And it's not just the media, the candidates themselves had the same reaction. If it wasn't for the last few polls that put Obama ahead of Clinton, New Hampshire would have been seen as a huge victory for Obama because he was able to catch Clinton when she had a huge lead in the polls in the weeks leading to the vote. Perception is a funny thing.
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