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Good move Josh. Nothing brings out the funny like Jews, and Slog have gotten rather heavy of late. We all need to lighten up, and discuss “the Jews,” which always produces rational discourse by the ton!

Their are Jews in N.H.?

All right. Who let THEM in?

Illegal immigrants indeed.

Josh, I think you're confused about how the global zionist conspiracy works. It's not who the Jews vote for, it's how the cabal controls the process.

but its so easy to blame the jews.

Psh. Maddox could find a reason.

i heard earlier that obama rocked the atheist vote.

@6 duh. atheists are rational ;)

Yeah, but you still killed our Lord and Savior.

What? Are they expanding settlement activity on Arab land or in N.H now? Taking land away from the Arabs of Granite State people to build a wall? Rounding up men over 16 and slapping them around? Come on, stop it Josh. The martyr complex needs to be ditched.

If the theory that NH was different than Iowa because people voted in private instead of in public why would you believe a public exit poll would be accurate?

Question Authority and POLLING!

"Blame"? "Fault"? Some of us think NH was the best political news of the last six months (except the McCain part, of course.)

Not that The Stranger staff is biased, or anything.

The Jews? Ah, yes.

I'm sure they are behind it.

What are we talking about?

You're weird, Josh.

Here's a theory:

http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Decision2008/story?id=4107883&page=1

Sadly, it's plausible and supported by data.

The link cited discusses weird ballot placement -- all over NH Clinton was listed 2d from top, Obama 21st, and for the first time this year there was no rotation. But, the link says the effect of this is 3 points.
The unexpected Hillary performance (actual % - projected % based on polls) was more like 10 points.
Evidence relating to 3 poitns, does not explain 10 points. It coudl only explain about 1/3 the problem. It's a plausible partial explanation. And, a pretty good one as the placement effect is well known and we don't have to speculate about NH'ers lying to pollsters due to race, "women are affected by crying" and other theories of dubious verifiability.
(The comment assumes that her overall ~3 point advantage over Obama is all that needs to be explained, as if they somehow naturally start with equal %'s).

What? It's not the Jews fault?

Quick. Blame The Seattle Times.

Don't forget the bicyclists!

Pit bulls.

"(The comment assumes that her overall ~3 point advantage over Obama is all that needs to be explained, as if they somehow naturally start with equal %'s)."

I wasn't trying to say that at all. Yes, it's probably just a partial explanation, but I'm not one to trust those "likely voter" polls, anyway.