New Hampshire went for George W. Bush over Al Gore in 2000 and then John Kerry over Bush in 2004, but the state is not so much swing as swung: As the Christian Science Monitor puts it, an influx of new residents has turned the "Live Free or Die" state into "Blue Hampshire."
That being said, the near-final election results from Tuesday night's primary may be a cause for some cheer among Democrats. Barack Obama, the Democrats' second-place finisher, polled substantially better than John McCain, the Republicans' first.
With 96 percent of the precincts reporting, here's how the combined results look now:
Hillary Clinton: 110,550
Barack Obama: 102,883
John McCain: 86,802
Mitt Romney: 73,806
John Edwards: 47,803
Mike Huckabee: 26,035
Rudy Giuliani: 20,054
Ron Paul: 17,831
Bill Richardson: 12,987
Dennis Kucinich: 3,845
Fred Thompson: 2,808
Mike Gravel: 397
And yes, Fred Thompson, that means you were beaten not just by Ron Paul but by Dennis Kucinich, too.
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