And those polls were absolutely correct, as the results from Tuesday’s primary attest.
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While Kasich focused nearly all of his campaign on New Hampshire, he told NBC’s Today show that the grass-roots organization he used in that state is one that “we will be able to use throughout the country”. Spokesman Justin Barasky responded in an e-mail that the group will defend Clinton from attacks by GOP candidates and ensure that “as many voters as possible know she’s the only candidate strong enough to beat the Republicans”.
Her campaign tweeted mid-morning: “You’re the reason we’re going to win this nomination and then win this election together”. Sanders was the overwhelming favorite of voters who were looking for a candidate they saw as honest and trustworthy (91 percent) and cares about people like them (82 percent). With more than 90% of the vote counted in New Hampshire, Mr Sanders had 60% to Mrs Clinton’s 38%. Overall, Sanders won 83 percent of the under-29 vote.
For some Republican leaders, back-to-back victories by Trump and Cruz, an uncompromising conservative, add urgency to the need to coalesce around a more mainstream candidate. But he will finish in a disappointing sixth place with approximately 7.4 percent of the vote (5 percent of precincts still have not finished counting their votes yet). Rubio, who had hoped to capitalize on a stronger-than-expected third-place finish in Iowa, cited a poor debate showing in New Hampshire and the “negative” media coverage that followed it.
The results from New Hampshire have not yet been finalized.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders were moving on from commanding wins in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary to more diverse states that will challenge their transformation from outsider candidates to their parties’ presidential nominees. The key second place spot in the Republican contest went to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who garnered 16% of the vote, as of early Wednesday.
When asked about her feelings on Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, Gerelus’ hair stylist Chrissy Parker says she isn’t enthused.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came in 6th in New Hampshire despite campaigning heavily there.
Barring any major shifts, Mr Trump will win in SC, and probably Nevada as well. Older voters cast an estimated 28 percent of the total Democratic votes in Iowa, and 17 percent in New Hampshire. The question will be whether his appeal will cross racial divides. Bernie Sanders, while delivering a broad rejection of Hillary Clinton’s second bid for the White House. Sanders has called his win “the beginning of a political revolution”.
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In South Carolina, Kasich has barely registered in polls to date. It was the state that pushed former President Bill Clinton to the Democratic nomination and victory in the general elections of 1992 and 1996. The Republican primary will be held February 20, the same day as the Democratic caucuses in Nevada. That is why I believe so strongly that we have to keep up, with every fiber of our being, the argument for the campaign for human rights, human rights as women’s rights, human rights as gay rights, human rights as worker rights, human rights as voting rights-human rights across the board for every single American!
