We do worse in NH than Iowa??

[Ron2Win]

They are trying to break us down. 10% now 7% then 4%....

 

[Minuteman2008]

And you guys laughed at us Iowans i tried my best and i still try my best

I've got one HELL of a lot more respect for Iowa voters as a whole than New Hampshire voters.

Paul did better in Iowa, but Iowa also rejected several "frontrunners" like Giuliani and McCain especially. I believe McCain to be the absolute opposite of what the conservative movement needs, even worse than Giuliani.

I would take Huckabee or Romney over McCain.

New Hampshire voters blandly chose Clinton and McCain, the media appointed frontrunners. What could be more disappointing from a supposedly libertarian state? New England states have become worthless for any kind of true conservative movement. I at least take solace in the fact that McCain isn't going to fare so well in the south and midwest.

Independents choosing McCain? What a damn joke! All they chose was four more years of the same policies we've had with Bush.

 

[seapilot]

Delegates wouldn't have mattered in NH, this was voters voting.

Delegates WILL matter though, and having delegates can get Ron Paul nominated even if he doesn't win a single primary state.

So true, this is what Julie annie is betting on, look he is the mayor of the world and he cant beat us in Iowa and squeaks past us in NH? He is looking to the big prize and so should we. DELEGATES! Alaska has twice the delegates to national convention as NH 29 to NHs 12.

We have 2 offices open here and the others have zero. We only have 700,000 people here and GOP is only 20% of the population or less, and hardly any of those know that we even have local caucuses. Do not give up your state until the counting is over. We can only do our best and say we did something to foward liberty, that in itself is satisfying and honorable.

 

[tboss]

This is BS. There is no way that we did worse in New Hampshire.

 

[margomaps]

I've got one HELL of a lot more respect for Iowa voters as a whole than New Hampshire voters.

Paul did better in Iowa, but Iowa also rejected several "frontrunners" like Giuliani and McCain especially. I believe McCain to be the absolute opposite of what the conservative movement needs, even worse than Giuliani.

I would take Huckabee or Romney over McCain.

New Hampshire voters blandly chose Clinton and McCain, the media appointed frontrunners. What could be more disappointing from a supposedly libertarian state? New England states have become worthless for any kind of true conservative movement. I at least take solace in the fact that McCain isn't going to fare so well in the south and midwest.

Independents choosing McCain? What a damn joke! All they chose was four more years of the same policies we've had with Bush.

Say what you want about NH, but in the end, we will have turned out 50% MORE voters for Paul than Iowa did, and our population is less than half as big as Iowa. For a tiny little state with a tiny population, a lot more of us bothered to get out and vote for Paul than did the Iowans.

If you factor in the population difference, NH turned out 3 times as many Paul votes than Iowa did. Iowa was low-hanging fruit with the low-turnout caucuses, and the people there totally dropped the ball. We could have easily achieved 3rd in Iowa.

McCain has a history in NH, having won the state back in 2000 when he was the "maverick" battling the establishment candidate, Bush. I guess a lot of older folks here remember him fondly, and that's why they voted for him.

Romney is well known here, being a former governor of the state next door. He owns a home in NH. He spent an unbelievable amount of money here advertising. He's been on TV and radio constantly for probably 9 months now. It is not even remotely surprising that he did well here.

Huckabee never had much of a chance in NH. He's playing the religious card, and NH is the most secular state.

Paul never had a chance here because nobody knows who he is. Seriously, outside of our little grassroots world, nobody knows who Paul is. Or they think he's that "kook who wants to get rid of the IRS." Sad, but true.

If Paul can string together a series of respectable showings while some of the other candidates slowly begin to drop out, then a lot more people will come to know who he is. And sadly, I think we'll find that most of those people will hate Paul and his message.