Senator John McCain won the Republican primary in New Hampshire, with the race being called for him early on. Senator Hillary Clinton beat Senator Barack Obama by a few thousand votes in a very close race. Comebacks all around! Update, 11:06PM: During her victory speech, Clinton thanked the voters of New Hampshire and asked them to give the country the comeback it needs. Unlike her Iowa background of friends like Madeline Albright and Wesley......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A perp search at Roma Road and St. George in Staten Island, an overturned car at 2nd Avenue and 36th Street in Manhattan and a shark DOA in the Rockaways. The FDNY responded to an apartment fire and found a 4-year-old child who apparently witnessed her mother's boyfriend kill her mother then himself this morning. Why won't the city fix a sinkhole in a Staten Island street? Because the......

After yesterday's "shocking" revelation that his ancestors were slaves owned by ancestors of Senator Strom Thurmond, the Reverend Al Sharpton held a press conference to discuss the news. It turns out that a Daily News reporter asked Sharpton if he'd like research his family history with genealogy website Ancestry.com - the NY Times reports that Ancestry.com "approached the Daily News seeking to publicize its African-American ancestry database" and the ball got rolling from there.......

The problem with companies selling your cellphone records to anyone is becoming a bigger issue, as it got the Today Show sign of approval to be something Americans should be freaked out about - there was a segment this morning and of course no one wants people knowing who they are calling or who is calling them, especially those cheating spouses or corporate espionage types! Basically, if you give a company like Locate Cell a......

The double edged sword of the Metrocard vending machine is examined by the Times today, what with the increasing number of service calls for the machines as tokens and token booths have disappeared over the past year. The MTA points to"vandalism and the demands of a 24-hour transit system" as the reason for the system's breakdowns, and Times reporter Michael Luo compares other cities' transit system machines (all made by Cubic, company that works with......

Apparently, General Wesley Clark did not do enough jumping jacks for votes in New Hampshire. John Kerry's double digit win over Howard Dean in Dean's neck of the woods spells some doom for Dean. John Edwards is excited, but at this point, Gothamist will just wait to see what happens after the convention, weigh our options, and probably vote third party again. Check out Aaron's fantasy of having the Democratic National Convention here in......

Wesley Clark has been blowing off the Iowa caucuses to concentrate on New Hampshire and to visit in New York. Gothamist saw him at Grand Central yesterday, where he spoke to commuters amid the media scrum. As people jockeyed to tell Clark various things ("I was in the service" or "I'm the CEO of a financial services company"), we could hear his staffers telling others who couldn't get to Clark, "His motorcade is out......

Lloyd Grove gets political and examines Wesley Clark's recent subway journey. And it's official: The Democratic presidential hopeful is a Metrotard (TM The Morning News). After claiming he was riding the subway "Simply because it's the best way to get around the city," Clark tried to swipe his Metrocard at the turnstile, only to get "PLEASE SWIPE AGAIN." Then his aide tried a few times to work the Metrocard. Grove asked if the general......

Brilliant move by Wesley Clark's campaign manager: Have the Democratic presidential hopeful ride the New York subways (to Queens, no less) to understand what goes on in New Yorkers minds before pressing the flesh. Clark announced his plan for "Success in Iraq" (PDF), a title which, quite frankly, sounds like a bad PowerPoint presentation some multinational oil company gave a couple fiscal years ago. A bad PowerPoint presentation we'd like to see: "2001 Budget," by......

Slate has an excellent drinking game to partake in during tonight's Democratic debate. Drink prompts include mentions of Bill Clinton or Enron, looks into the wrong camera during introductions, or speaks Spanish and mentioning campaign website/URL. (Mmm, we'll venture to say a Schwarzenegger-California reference will make its way into the debate as well.) The Kamikaze version is "Take a drink every time a candidate mentions President Bush by name. " Then there are the specific......

Shades of class picture day from elementary school, when you were photographed with all your classmates...some on the floor, some standing on chairs, that black felty sign with "Miss Kaufman, Third Grade, 1984-1985" in white letters, Sean Muellers wearing the same plaid shirt three years in a row, someone picking his nose, and you smiling too big and the camera catching a glare off your glasses. Even then, we looked cooler than some of......