Wow! Great insight that New Hampshire independent voters may forsake McCain, take a Democratic ballot and vote for Obama based on his showing in the Iowa caucuses held 5 days before the storied New Hampshire primary. Good one! John and Barack have polar-opposite personalities. Yet, McCain and Obama have an outsider status in their respective parties - the feisty straight-talking McCain and the cerebral Washington-outsider Obama. Obama's politics hew to the traditional (example: his national health insurance plan, similair to Clinton and Edwards, would be voluntary with theirs mandatory) and McCain's are bolder (example: advocating an Iraq Troop Surge many months before Bush took up the idea). Each conveys the image of thinking outside the box while respecting the accepted foundations. Obama may be the McCain of 2008 for the Granite State's independent voters who often like to challenge the conventional wisdom and foregone conclusion. They'll take a chance but not take a risk. Iowa's cornfields may indeed cast long shadows onto the White Mountains.
