Once again, Nate Silver did a great job at predicting who was going to win the primary in New Hampshire, although, Silver couldn't predict whether Gingrich or Santorum would finish in 4th or 5th place. In fact, the race for 4th place was close enough to call it a tie.
What I found surprising is that Romney's numbers didn't go down as much given his performance during the debates over the weekend because his opponents were talking across him almost ignoring him. One example is when Romney was mute during the debate was when Santorum and Paul were raging over who is more conservative when looking at each other's record in congress.
Upon reading news blogs (CNN, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post) I found out that people were claiming that Romney won the debate when in fact he wasn't participating in the debate. Judging from the amount of screen time on the candidates Paul and Santorum were assumed by yours truly to win/gain some momentum from the debate, and seeing the results from the NYTimes; my assertion that Paul performed well is correct, but incorrect when looking at Santorum.
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