Kerry wins Hew Hampshire primary

Massachusetts senator John Kerry has claimed victory in today’s New Hampshire Democratic primary, allowing him to build momentum heading into the Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina primaries, and the New Mexico caucus next Tuesday. I don’t know enough about Kerry to make an informed decision on whether I would vote for him, but after his visit to Philadelphia -- chronicled here by Shallow Center -- last summer, he will have a lot of explaining to do. Secretly, I wonder if all of us were hoping Kerry would win so that Vermont governor Howard Dean might give us another great story.