The US presidential candidates have started campaigning in New Hampshire after voters in Iowa served up some major surprises.
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Donald Trump went to New Hampshire on Tuesday night, less than 24 hours after his disappointing second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
Mrs Clinton celebrated her narrow win in Iowa and said she expected a tough fight in New Hampshire, noting she will be campaigning in the “backyard” of Mr Sanders, a Vermont senator.
The Iowa Democratic Party said Tuesday that it would not do any recount of the close results.
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“We need to be sure everyone has our accurate count”, said Jill Joseph, a rank-and-file Democratic voter who backed Sanders in at No. 42 Monday night.
For Clinton, attacking Republicans is a particularly attractive option: challenging Sanders’ ability to achieve his campaign’s policy ideas might make sense to her loyal supporters, but it doesn’t exactly inspire the base.
After coming in third in Iowa eight years ago, Clinton said today she was “so proud” of coming out on top.
“New Hampshire has a better track record in terms of reliably turning out young people”, said Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) in Medford, Massachusetts.
So it’s incorrect to say that Clinton won every coin flip.
“The question then becomes how much influence do Iowa and New Hampshire really have over this process?”
It will be a mission that will unfold over the next week in New Hampshire, where Trump holds a commanding lead.
Sanders resonated with millennial social media users as well.
With “Jeb!” and “Bernie for President” signs jostling for space on highway dividers and standing room only at candidate events across the southern tier, New Hampshire claimed the focus of a race that has veered unpredictably for months, taking its latest turn Monday night in Iowa with Donald Trump temporarily dethroned and Hillary Clinton buoyed.
The first contest of the primary season, the Iowa caucuses “give momentum to the candidates that either win or outperform expectations… and whittle down the field of Iowa candidates”, said Carlos E. Diaz Rosillo, a lecturer of Government who teaches Government 1359: “The Road to the White House”, this semester’s second largest course. “And who is mostly likely going to be able to deliver?” Sanders spokesman Ted Devine said his campaign does not have “any plan or intention” to challenge the results, citing Sanders comments from Monday that the race appears to have ended in “a virtual tie”. “We’re going to keep working like the dickens – no Hail Mary passes – and at the end of the day, it will be out of my hands because we will have done everything we can”.
Sanders is leading in polling ahead of the February 9 primary vote in New Hampshire.
According to entrance poll data, Sanders almost defeated Clinton with a surge of support among youth, who voted for the self-described democratic socialist by an 80-to-20 margin. That’s fine.’ Now they want more debates. But Clinton supporters point out he didn’t.
Sanders was down 41 points in a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Iowa Poll last July, and finished just three-tenths of a percentage point behind Clinton, who wasn’t declared the caucus victor until the following day.
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Sixty-four percent of Republican caucus participants in Iowa identified as born-again Christians. The previous high was just under 6 million on the news networks in 2008.
