Clinton’s campaign had sought to manage expectations with a circular to her supporters, noting that “whatever happens tonight, we’re ready to get back out there and fight twice as hard tomorrow”.
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So far, the campaign’s effort hasn’t worked.
Sanders was also buoyed by independent voters and a belief that he was more honest and trustworthy than Clinton, who won New Hampshire eight years ago against then-candidate Barack Obama.
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said at a rally for Clinton in New Hampshire.
Sanders’ senior strategist Tad Devine said in an MSNBC interview that they believe this was the biggest margin of victory in a contested Democratic primary in history.
Some say Hillary Clinton isn’t doing as well in recent polls as she was previously because there’s still overwhelming sexism in this country, and voters would choose Bernie Sanders simply because he’s a man, which is misogynistic rhetoric at play. “It’s a personal judgment that people have made about her”. It may not have been his goal, but Sanders has pulled Clinton to the left. But they’re less certain about how to address them. Clinton’s campaign is already starting to draw sharper contrasts with the Vermont senator. While no one on the senior team is expected to be fired, the Clintons are said to be eyeing a role for a senior Democrat who could serve as a singular decision-maker, an implicit indictment of an organization where decisions often seem to be made by committee.
Slides in a presentation provided to The Associated Press estimates that the group’s litigation would protect the right to vote for 2 million voters in those four states, which will be among the most contested in the November election. Allies see a candidate still dogged by a slow, tortured response to criticism of her use of personal email and a private Internet server while at the State Department.
That led to Todd’s comparison of Clinton to the big Wall Street banks that were bailed out by the taxpayers in 2008.
Now all of this could very well be but a footnote if Bernie is unable to triumph in Nevada and SC.
Indeed, voters have raised those concerns repeatedly in early voting states.
However, that doesn’t explain why, in USA Today’s “Rock the Vote” poll, young women chose Sanders over Clinton by nearly 40 percent. Give them time, and they might just do her in.
In thanking New Hampshire for his overwhelming win, he said the message voters sent was that it was “too late for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and establishment economics”. It could be in part because he’s newer to her, she said.
“At this point it’s probably not correct to say it’s a conspiracy because it’s out in the open”, Clinton said earlier this month.
Demers is among the dozens of people from New Hampshire and across the country with whom I spoke over the past week while covering the state’s primary from my hometown of Manchester.
But the generational divide among young women over Clinton’s candidacy appears more entrenched than it was at this point in 2008. Racially this may not be fair, but politically she’ll take it. The outcome showed Clinton had received 49.84 percent while Sanders received 49.59 percent.
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While Jeb Bush’s final week of campaigning in New Hampshire was punctuated by moments of comic sadness, the former Florida governor pulled in 11 percent of the vote, with 58 percent of the precincts reporting.
