Maybe we don't need another one of these, but I want to add what I observed, and I have to hand it to the Clinton campaign. Their close in New Hampshire was downright brilliant. Some thoughts on how they did what they did after the jump.
Regardless of who you support in this election (and I have to cop to being somewhat partial to Obama), you have to admit that Clinton's team played the last day and a half in the public eye with a great deal of aplomb (and their on-the-ground, under-the-radar, GOTV field operation was pretty amazing as well, from what I hear from people who were up in NH).
Just as the narrative about HRC running too much of a carefully scripted, passionless, frontrunner's campaign was beginning to solidify, she has an emotional moment in front of the cameras and a group of voters. This comes (conveniently) right at the time the Clinton camp begins leaking info about the internal battles over whether they should unleash the "real" HRC that is passionate and that doesn't have every last move she takes and exchange that she has pre-programmed and scripted. And I won't dispute that there was undoubtedly some real emotion in that moment when she answered the question. It just came at a fortuitous time. Even she has admitted that the show of emotion didn't hurt (and the number of voters breaking for her late backs this up).
At any rate, that was THE dominant story heading into primary day: Clinton shows some emotion. There was the initial wave of empathy and sympathy for this view of HRC as a human being. Then the typical negative reaction from chuckleheads in the press and from John "I'm a fighter" Edwards, which created its own backlash. The Clinton camp followed this up by sending Bill out there to work the victimhood angle a little, claiming Obama hadn't received the same level of scrutiny as HRC, which a) created more sympathy for the hardships that she has been through (which of course explains why she was so exhausted and emotional on the campaign trail), and b) makes people wonder what's in Obama's record that has as of yet not been examined. Throw in a well-orchestrated GOTV operation that the Obama campaign did not respond to effectively enough (or at all, for that matter), and all of a sudden, miracle of miracles, Clinton bounces back with a big win.
I'm sure people will comment that I'm a bit too cynical about HRC, but that's how it looked to an outside observer. A neat and tidy narrative executed by a carefully orchestrated last two days before the primary. It may not pretty, but she won, and she does deserve the credit for what she managed to pull off.