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Video: What Did Pollsters Miss in Predicting New Hampshire's 2008 Democratic Primary?

The voting has begun in New Hampshire, America’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, and many are the questions we won’t have answered until this evening.

Scott Rasmussen and a panel of high-profile guests looked at what to expect and what it means in a one-hour TV program that  aired on WBIN-TV in Derry, N.H. last night. Excerpts from “What New Hampshire Thinks with Scott Rasmussen” will be released on the Rasmussen Reports website every hour all day today beginning at 8:30 am Eastern.

Scott’s guests include New Hampshire’s two most powerful legislators, state House Speaker Bill O’Brien and state Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, along with State Senator Bob Clegg, the former majority leader. Also on hand are Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review, the Boston Globe’s Washington Bureau Chief Chris Rowland and Bloomberg News political reporter Julie Davis.

Helping to get a handle on the primary in the closing hours are Democratic strategist Jim Demers, Republican strategists Tom Rath and Fran Wendleboe and Jennifer Horn, president of the conservative issues group We the People.

In this segment, The Boston Globe's Chris Rowland, former NH Senate Majority Leader Bob Clegg and Democratic strategist Jim Demers discuss what went wrong in Election 2008 with predicting the results of the Democratic primary.

Check back at 2:30 p.m. EST for Scott Rasmussen's closing remarks on today's New Hampshire GOP primary.

 

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Looking past New Hampshire, who is winning South Carolina?  Click here to find out.

In New Hampshire, Romney is viewed the most favorably out of any GOP hopeful and has the highest electability rating.  Click here to see what the second round of political insiders has to say about that.

For analysis on the latest NH results from Scott Rasmussen and the first round of panelists, please click here.

To watch the opener, which reveals the latest New Hampshire poll results, please click here.

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