Before the New Hampshire Caucus had begun, the ABC news reporter Cookie Roberts reported the importance and chances of winning the New Hampshire Caucus for each candidate after analyzing the results of Iowa Caucus. According to Cookie Roberts, Obama's victory in Iowa Caucus was definitely a historic moment. She reported that both Obama and Hilary Clinton “were making a history”, however Obama had took a head start in this race. Further, Cookie Roberts reported that after finishing third in Iowa, “It's going to be tough if she loses New Hampshire” and thus expressed that Clinton needs to win the New Hampshire Primary. In the other hand, Cookie Roberts also analyzed the Republicans.
According to Cookie Roberts, Mike Huckabee has more appeal than Robertson, and thus would have a greater chance of winning the New Hampshire Caucus. In addition, she also analyzed Romney and appreciated his spending of 7 million dollars in television advertisement alone. However, apart from all this, Cookie Robert expressed, “At this moment, I think McCain is the beneficiary of all this.” Roberts said that McCain has the greatest chance of winning the Republican Caucus in New Hampshire.
As the results of the New Hampshire Primary came out, Cookie Roberts' assumptions proved pretty accurate. According to 99% reporting, McCain had won the Republican Caucus with 88,447 votes or 37% of the total votes. Next, Romney whom Cookie Roberts had said to have spend a lot of money in advertisements came second as he received 75,202 votes or 31% of the total votes. Third in the Republican Caucus was Mike Huckabee whom Cookie Roberts had reported of having a good appeal. He received 26,760 votes or 11% of the total votes.
In the other hand, the Democratic results were pretty interesting as well. According to 99% reporting, Hillary Clinton had beat Barack Obama and thus had won the Democratic Caucus. Hillary Clinton had received 112,238 votes, which is 39% of the total votes. Next, Barack Obama had got the second spot as he had received 104,757 votes, or 37% of the total votes. This change in the first spot from the Iowa Caucus to New Hampshire Caucus was definitely significant. However, in both the cases, it was the “change that had won”.
