My old newspaper, The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California, published a perfectly sensible editorial the other day on the recall mania in New Hampshire primary election surrounding Diebold optical scanners.

Turns out, the woman who asked the question that brought Hillary to tears voted for Obama. The reason? "She had attended one of (Obama's) rallies earlier in the week, and she claims Obama's stirring speech brought her to tears!"

Mickey Kaus offers four theories to explain the conventional-wisdom crushing outcome of the New Hampshire primary. The first is "the Bradley effect." L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley ran for California governor in 1982 against Republican George Deukmejian. Bradley was black and Deukmejian is white.

Lots of people wonder if Hillary Clinton's moment of choking up -- she didn't seem to cry, so I'm not going to call it that -- helped give her the New Hampshire victory. Perhaps because of that, plenty of otherwise-smart people are trying to figure out whether that moment was real or fake, planned or spontaneous:

Ezra Klein suggests that Obama's loss in New Hampshire makes it harder for him to justify his candidacy:

His pitch is so dependent on his ability to enlarge the Democratic coalition and attract new voters that a failure to do so, or a failure to do so in large enough numbers, actually strikes at the heart of his candidacy.