New Hampshire

The winners for the New Hampshire primaries were released the other day, and with an unexpected victory, Hillary Clinton winning susbatially against opponent Barack Obama. The strange thing about Clinton's victory was that it had been polled and predicted earlier that New Hampshire would vote Obama in a landslide victory. That wasn't the case.
At 8 o'clock on January 8th, the poll predictions for New Hampshire were released, declaring that John McCain would take the republican vote while Obama and Clinton were to close to call for the democratic vote.

For the past few days the common belief was that Obama would take New Hampshire which would only increase his lead in teh democratic race, making his Iowa win seem small. However, Hillary won against common belief and took 39% to Barack's 37%.

This unexpected win really demonstrated the often faulty nature of polls. Although a poll had been taken earlier that morning, the results that evening were substantially different. This difference really illustrated the high amount of new voters becoming involved in this years election. We can only hope the same number of people will vote in the actually presidential race as did in the recent primaries.