Reply #4: Stop it. Just stop it. [View All]

[SoxFan]

Diebold had nothing to do with the NH results. Hillary won, largely because Obama's state director (Matt Rodriguez) and state chair (Jim Demers) made some stupid strategic decisions, e.g., devoting very little candidate time and field resources to the suburban commuter towns in southern Rockingham and Hillsborough Counties.

The discrepancy between scanner and hand count towns has to do with political demographics. The towns that still use hand counts are clustered in Grafton, Cheshire, and Carroll Counties. The Democrats in these towns tend to be highly educated, liberal, and upper income. These towns have more in common with Vermont than with Manchester or Nashua. Bill Bradley clobbered Gore in these places, and Howard Dean beat Kerry in most of them as well.