Update: Obama's speech:

He congratulates Hillary Clinton for winning New Hampshire. More about change. This sounds like the same speech he would have given had he won New Hampshire.

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Here's Obama. Guess he agrees Hillary takes New Hampshire.

He can thank the media for its trashing of Hillary Clinton. There must have been a huge backlash -- or else the pollsters don't know what they are doing.

Another pundit said he made a mistake by laying in the weeds the past two days and not putting up a fight.

Update: Several media pundits have remarked his speech was a victory speech. On his new slogan, "Yes, We Can," Pat Robertson and Rachel Maddow got into a dispute whether it was meant to reach out to, as Robertson said, "illegal immigrants" (see Si, se puede) or, as Rachel said, organized labor.

She did it. Amazing!

The importance of tonight's win can not be overstated. It was a revolt of women sick and tired of the likes of Chris Tweety Matthews and the Media Misogynists.

Barack Obama did not lose New Hampshire. The Media did. Their misogynist hatred of Hillary Clinton was soundly rejected by the voters. Especially the women voters of New Hampshire.

How the Media will react to this well deserved rebuke is the question. And let's be clear, Chris Matthews should be removed from covering this race. His offensive behavior is a disgrace to NBC.

Thread One....Numbers, Predictions, Reactions? New Threads are below.

Update: (TL 10:50 pm):Hillary won! End of live updates.

Update: (TL 10:33 pm): AP is predicting Hillary the winner.

Update (TL 10:24pm): 63% in, still Hillary 39% to Obama's 36%. The votes are coming in slower now. What takes college towns so long to count their votes?

Wolf Blitzer says her 4,000 vote, 3% lead is a "slight" lead. He calls the race "a nailbiter."

Update (TL 10:11 pm): 62% in and Hillary's still ahead, 39% to 36%. Wapole and Mason, the Beyond Currier and Ives town expected to go for Obama are already in and counted.

Update (TL 10:05 pm): The pundits are all surprised. 60% in, Hillary 39% to Obama 37%. But the college towns of Hanover and Durham aren't in yet. Two more Volvo towns, going for Obama as expected, are in: Peterborough and Portsmouth.

More....

John Edwards is taking the stage with Elizabeth for his speech.

He congratulates Clinton and Obama and says, "2 states down, 48 to go."

Edwards: 99% of us haven't voted and we all deserve to have our votes counted.

I couldn't agree more. Hang in there, John.

Update: He's staying in until everyone has been heard. An energizing speech. I'm really glad he's staying in.

CNN Exit Polling shows Hillary MIGHT have won New Hampshire. She took 47% of the women's vote to Obama's 34%. She lost men to Obama 42 to 30%. Women comprised 57% of the vote. The Media Misogyny is not taken to kindly by women. My math tells me that means Hillary won.

That would be a shocking result. And it would be a clear signal that the Media Misogyny, and yes Tweety Matthews, I am talking about you and your ilk, is unacceptable to women in the United States. And thank gawd for that.

CNN calls McCain the winner over Mitt Romney really early. It projects John Edwards will come in third.

What's next for John Edwards? Will he back Obama or stay in until February 5? I hope he stays in.

Update: Romney says he's staying in. Huckabee concedes. He sounds triumphant and announces they are on their way to Michigan, South Carolina and Florida. McCain's getting ready to speak.

Via dkos diarist rmjob (who is pretty solid):

Bill Schneider:

Here's an interesting fact we discovered in the exit poll. About 1 in 7, 14% of both Democrats & Republicans, told us they made their minds up, how they're going to vote today. So there could be some changes from the pre-election polls.

Here's an intriguing finding:

Most Important To Your Vote?

[Democrats]
Issues 57%

Personal Qualities 41%

Most Important To Your Vote? [Republicans] Personal Qualities 54%
Issues 43%

One strain of interpretation could make this good for Clinton and McCain. Less about "personal qualities" would be better for Clinton and Romney it seems to me. But who the heck knows?

More . . .

Watch Mitt Romney turn away from a medical marijuana user in a wheelchair.

Here's the Granite Stater's Scorecard on the candidates. Hillary and Obama both get "A"'s. John Edwards gets an A- and Bill Richardson gets an A+.

• Hillary Clinton
• Barack Obama
• John Edwards
• Bill Richardson

John McCain, Rudy, Huckabee and Romney get "F's. [Hat tip Crooks and Liars.]

Some more New Hampshire numbers, from Boston Globe:

• 1.3 million people
• 253,736 Republicans
• 216,005 Democrats
• 356,897 Independents

When the returns come out, here's some of their expectations:

• The Volvo Towns, "home to east coast elites of the culture wars" , the affluent and educated, will probably go to Obama whom they are apt to view as the reform candidate. Towns of : Hanover, Concorde, Keene, Portsmouth, Brookline, Durham and Peterborough.

• The Metropolis, Less affluent and more moderate Dems, could go either way. City of Manchester.

• Lunch Pail Priorities: Blue collar, Berlin and Lyme and a few others.

• Beyond Currier and Ives: Off the beaten track, Walpole and Mason.

Tonight Barack Obama and John McCain will be battling to be the Media Darling for the night. I think McCain leads that contest, AS LONG AS he wins tonight, even if by a point. The Media is rooting hard for him. Here is the latest RCP average:

McCain 31.8
Romney 28.2
Huck 12.2
Rudy 9.3
Paul 8.2

Personally I am rooting hard for Romney because I want to see the long faces on Tweety and Co. if Saint John loses. I am also rooting for Paul to beat Rudy. Another 5th for Rudy would be sweet.

But make no mistake, if McCain wins, he will be toasted all night long. The Media loves McCain even more than it hates Hillary Clinton.

BTW, drop your predictions here if you like. I predict Willard in an upset.

Update: Odinga has changed his mind and now agreed to meet with President Kibaki. It may be that Barack Obama's telephone call was successful.

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The U.S. today urged Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga to engage in bi-lateral talks to resolve Kenya's political crisis.

Barack Obama called the opposition leader to urge him to agree to the talks.

Barack Obama, whose late father was Kenyan, spoke with the opposition leader Raila Odinga for about five minutes from New Hampshire, asking the opposition leader to meet directly with President Mwai Kibaki, said the Democratic presidential candidate's spokesman.

"He urged an end to violence and that Mr. Odinga sit down, without preconditions, with President Kibaki to resolve this issue peacefully," said the spokesman, Bill Burton.

The outcome (from first linked article): [More...]

While I'm pretty glued to New Hampshire and have to work do as well, there's other important news happening. Here's a roundup which I'll add to as the day goes on:

• The ACLU begins its Close Guantanamo campaign today on the eve of the 6th anniversary of the first detainees' arrival. Please wear orange on January 11 to support the campaign for closure.
• Jose Padilla's sentencing hearing began today. It's expected to last three days.
• Inmates in Georgia complain of widespread beatings.
• Ohio Death Row Inmate Ken Richey freed after 20 years, to return to Scotland.
• Georgia Supreme Court takes up banishment of offenders.