The lady came first

Five days separating Aiov from New Hampshire were given to candidates with extraordinary stress of forces. They spent these days and nights on the buses, looking for the state along and across, having no time to put themselves in order, eat humanly and sleep.

Chuck Norris, who participates in the campaign of Mike Khakkabi, at the next meeting with voters, when Norris to the President shouted out of the hall! ", Shook his head:" No, I am not as strong as Mike, I can’t! " Hillary Clinton could not stand it at some point, a woman complained and even sought out: it was terribly difficult, but what to do ... If it was an acting game, then very talented. Her opponent John Edwards immediately took advantage of the minute weakness of the competitor: "We need a strong, decisive commander in chief. The presidential campaign is a difficult lesson, but working as president is even more difficult." It was not in a gentlemanly manner. But there is no gentlemen in such an acute battle.

The state law allows settlements with the number of inhabitants less than 100 to open polling stations at midnight and close them as soon as everyone votes. Two tiny town, Harts-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Local Schools, they voted before everyone else. In the first 29 voters, in the second - 17. In both independent voters make up the majority. The turnout turned out to be one hundred percent. Some couples came to vote from long farms on skiing.

In the early morning, the candidates stood at the door of the sites, welcoming voters. It was especially a pity to look at the obsessed, solid Republican Mitt Romny, who, smiling at a glued smile, looked into the eyes of a passing one and held out his hand with the words: “Hello, how are you? Mitt Romny. Nice to meet you, thanks ... Good morning, how are you doing?” - But the voter suddenly refused a handshake and passed by, barely nodding, and the former governor Massachusetts rushed to the following: "Good morning, nice to meet ... Hello, as a mood? .."

Handsome did not help. Romney came the second. The winner of the Republicans became, as expected, Senator John McCain. McCain won the initial elections in New Hampshire four years ago and yesterday confirmed his electoral viability. The Vietnamese veteran, who had been captured for several years, the senator opposes the reckless withdrawal of troops from Iraq and promises to catch Osamu Ben Laden. His relatively soft position in relation to illegal immigration does not like many Republicans. But independent voters participate in New Hampshire primaries, this is their special value, and it was they who decided the outcome of the struggle in both camps.

For the Democrats, Barack Obama was supposed to win by all grounds. Not only surveys, but also the general atmosphere spoke in his favor: he performed in crowded halls - it was sometimes content with two dozen visitors to the cafeteria. At one meeting, Hillary rushed to rearrange the chairs so as to create the illusion of crowded for cameras. Her team had already reconciled with the defeat and weighed whether to miss the primary elections in Nevada and South Carolina, having bet on the super -vator on February 5, when 22 states would vote at once. But she made almost impossible, proving that there would be no light victories in this election.

The watershed between Clinton and Obama swayed along the line "Experience - Change". Hillary positioned herself as a politician with 35 years of experience, Obama emphasized the need for cardinal changes, she appealed to American individualism, he - to the unity on top of the party schism and a sense of involvement. Polls showed that voters give preference to changes before experience. But in the ecsit regulations, many of them said that they did not understand where, in fact, Obama’s state ship was going to unfold.

The second place in New Hampshire for Hillary, who came the third in Aiov, would be a heavy blow. The next stage of the campaign is Nevada, where the influential trade union of cooks was preparing to officially support Obama. South Carolina with its many African American population would be even more so in his pocket. Two victories in a row would provide an influx of funds to the Obama election box office. But the result of yesterday's vote confused the map. The cooks and donors should now diligently scrape in the heads. It all starts first.