New Hampshire was actually the first state called Tuesday evening and consequently the first state called for Senator Barack Obama, part of a night in which the junior senator from Illinois was literally unstoppable. According to Real Clear Politics the race was close but Senator Obama took the state's four electoral votes 55% to McCain's 45% with 94% of the precincts accounted for.
In other important news, the Democrats in New Hampshire emerged victorious in their quest for a majority in the senate with Democratic ex-governor Jeanne Shaheen coming out on top of incumbent Republican Senator John Sununu. This was a hard-fought rematch of the two's 2002 fight in which the results were reversed. According to US News & World Report the Democrat Shaheen was able to achieve such a victory due to her consistent attacks on Sununu for being "in sync" with George W. Bush.
Since 2002 when Sununu beat Shaheen and earlier year in which the state elected George W. Bush as president, the state has moved from red to purple to what now seems to be a solid blue.
Although John McCain fought hard in this state from the beginning when the state helped him win the nomination in the primaries, I don't think anyone would have said the senator from Arizona ever had that much of a chance in blue New Hampshire.
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