Reply #112: The fact is that a 8 point victory was MAJOR

[karynnj]

and if you remember it really gave Obama momentum. Hillary Clinton had been sitting on a 20 point lead in NH and her campaign was being run by Senator Shaheen's husband. They were known to have an excellent get out the vote machine. Hillary did eke out a narrow victory.

CNN was very pro Clinton in 2008 and this was a case of playing down a massive Obama victory. Had Edwards or Clinton won NH, Hillary would have almost certainly won the nomination. (I posted the entrance poll results - and Kucinich had only about 1.5% of the caucus goers. Additionally, Edwards gained nearly twice as much as Clinton or Obama from the caucus process. Obama started with 35% to Edwards 23.4%.