New Hampshire Predictions: Our Picks for Who Will Win Primary
We're journalists, not prognosticators. But in this business, sometimes it is just an irresistible conversation line to turn to each other and ask, 'so, what do you think is really going to happen?'
George Stephanopoulos and Matthew Dowd ran through the odds and Dowd predicted a second place finish for former Utah governor and Amb. Jon Huntsman. Stephanopoulos has predicted a strong enough finish by Huntsman to guarantee that every major candidate in New Hampshire will move on to the South Carolina primary too.
Watch George and Matthew Dowd play the predictions game.
And so, with the understanding that we really don't know what's going to happen for sure (nobody does), here are the predictions of some of the best political minds at ABC News. This is the order we predict the candidates will finish in New Hampshire. Who buys into the Jon Huntsman surge? Who thinks Ron Paul can hang on to second? Who has the best guess on exactly how big a victory Mitt Romney will secure? And does anyone see Rick Perry finishing worse than Buddy Roemer? What do you think? Tell us below. And on Wednesday we'll call out the winners. For reference, here are the Iowa picks. Winners were Political Director Amy Walter (naturally) and Huma Khan.
Amy Walter - ABC News Political Director
Romney - 40
Paul
Huntsman
Santorum
Newt
Perry
Jonathan Karl - ABC News Senior Political Correspondent
Romney - 35
Huntsman
Paul
Gingrich
Santorum
Perry
Rick Klein - Senior Washington Editor for World News with Diane Sawyer
Romney - 37
Paul
Huntsman
Gingrich
Santorum
Roemer
Perry
Sara Just- Senior Washington Editor, ABC News Digital
Romney 33
Huntsman
Paul
Gingrich
Sanatorum
Perry
Z. Byron Wolf - Politics Editor, ABC News.com
Romney - 32
Huntsman
Paul
Gingrich
Santorum
Perry
Karen Travers - ABC News Correspondent
Romney - 37
Huntsman
Paul
Santorum
Gingrich
Perry
George Sanchez - ABC News Assignment Editor
Romney - 34
Huntsman
Paul
Gingrich
Santorum
Perry
Matt Negrin - Political Reporter
Romney: 38
Paul
Huntsman
Santorum
Gingrich
Perry
Romney - 35
Huntsman
Paul
Santorum
Gingrich
Perry
Elizabeth Hartfield - Political Unit
Romney - 39
Paul
Huntsman
Santorum
Gingrich
Buddy Roemer
Perry
Chris Good - Political Reporter
Romney 35
Huntsman
Paul
Santorum
Gingrich
Amy Bingham - Digital Reporter
Romney - 35
Huntsman
Paul
Santorum
Gingrich
Perry