As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary, TIME’s Mark Halperin gives a few theories about how it happened.

McCain Aides are convinced that they won — and Hillary Obama lost — because they wound up taking away all (or a good portion) of Obama’s independents.

UPDATE: I wasn’t drunk, I was just in the midst of chaos, and once I pressed “send,” I didn’t get a chance to look at the post until now. I am embarrassed and sorry that this post …

Earlier tonight on the Drudge Report:

The Mitt “victory party” will have no shortage of orange inflatable thingees.

The McCain “victory party,” I can report, is a mob scene. Aides are nervous and giddy at the same time. Trading exit poll numbers with hands shaded over their Blackberrys so mere mortals can’t see.

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