The Votes Are In
With New Hampshire in the rearview mirror, and the wind behind a few candidates' backs, you'll probably start to hear more numbers and statistics now than at a baseball game.
I'll begin here, and this turns out to be good news for Clinton, now that she's barely won New Hampshire: According to the Congressional Quarterly, every candidate over the past three and half decades who won both Iowa and New Hampshire went on to win their party's nomination. Obama came close. The two exceptions to this fact since 1972: George McGovern and Bill Clinton. Well, now there's a second Clinton we can call the "Comeback Kid."
And she came back at the right time. According to The Poynter Institute, the percentage of Democratic candidates that win the New Hampshire primary and then go on to win their party's nomination: 75%.
As for the Republicans, the field is also a mixed one, but McCain's win is an important one, because the Poynter numbers for the Democrats are the same for Republicans: Win New Hampshire, and you have a 75% chance at the nomination.
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But two new articles out Tuesday on WebMD highlight the numbers that will really count down the road. One shows that out of 19 industrialized countries, the U.S. has the highest rate of preventable deaths before age 75.
Another article shows that the U.S. spent a record $2.1 trillion health care in 2006, nearly 7% more than the year before.
Exit polls show that the economy was the voters' top issue in this primary, and health care is a big part of that calculation. There is no doubt that health care will matter in the presidential election, and there will be clear differences among the candidates. You can see where the current front-runners, and all the candidates, stand on health care in our comparison chart.
In our election special you can find what all the buzzwords you'll hear really mean, as well as what key opinion and thought leaders think about the health care problem in this country.
If you want, you can give a voice to your vote, or get all your election news from other credible news organizations, right here.
In short, we're committed at WebMD to help inform your decisions regarding health care in the upcoming primaries and presidential election.
We'll keep you posted.
Sean Swint
Executive Editor, WebMD
I'll begin here, and this turns out to be good news for Clinton, now that she's barely won New Hampshire: According to the Congressional Quarterly, every candidate over the past three and half decades who won both Iowa and New Hampshire went on to win their party's nomination. Obama came close. The two exceptions to this fact since 1972: George McGovern and Bill Clinton. Well, now there's a second Clinton we can call the "Comeback Kid."
And she came back at the right time. According to The Poynter Institute, the percentage of Democratic candidates that win the New Hampshire primary and then go on to win their party's nomination: 75%.
As for the Republicans, the field is also a mixed one, but McCain's win is an important one, because the Poynter numbers for the Democrats are the same for Republicans: Win New Hampshire, and you have a 75% chance at the nomination.
.
But two new articles out Tuesday on WebMD highlight the numbers that will really count down the road. One shows that out of 19 industrialized countries, the U.S. has the highest rate of preventable deaths before age 75.
Another article shows that the U.S. spent a record $2.1 trillion health care in 2006, nearly 7% more than the year before.
Exit polls show that the economy was the voters' top issue in this primary, and health care is a big part of that calculation. There is no doubt that health care will matter in the presidential election, and there will be clear differences among the candidates. You can see where the current front-runners, and all the candidates, stand on health care in our comparison chart.
In our election special you can find what all the buzzwords you'll hear really mean, as well as what key opinion and thought leaders think about the health care problem in this country.
If you want, you can give a voice to your vote, or get all your election news from other credible news organizations, right here.
In short, we're committed at WebMD to help inform your decisions regarding health care in the upcoming primaries and presidential election.
We'll keep you posted.
Sean Swint
Executive Editor, WebMD
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