With women over 45, Clinton prevailed with 56 percent of the vote, ABC News exit polls found, but Sanders won 69 percent among women under 45. He will need to improve his standing among voters of color, of course, which poses a significant challenge to his campaign.
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That should be enough to ward off Sanders and win the Democratic nomination but will push her into an awkward position for the general election.
Sanders, the independent socialist senator, and Trump, the political neophyte and provocateur, tapped New Hampshire’s occasional taste for political insurgencies to prevail in the nation’s second contest for the nomination, after they lost in Iowa. Even the day-of, many voters said they didn’t decide until they entered that ballot booth. Voters under 30 constituted 19 percent of the Democratic turnout on Tuesday, while voters 65 and older constituted 17 percent-a notable reversal of normal voter participation levels, and clear testament to Sanders’s ability to mobilize the young.
In an unconventional election, Kasich ran a very conventional New Hampshire campaign.
He raised $5.2 million in the 18 hours after polls closed in New Hampshire, his campaign announced.
Clinton has emphasized her pitch that she’s a progressive who can get things done.
Whether Clinton and her team will seriously embrace the core economic message that the Sanders campaign has been riding on – inequality, health care and reining in Wall Street – remains to be seen.
The Clinton campaign was trying to stop the hemorrhage of female voters – especially young women – from its camp in the closing days. In celebration of the big victory, Sanders supporters yelled “Yuge” in return, and it was an adorable moment. South Carolina GOP Chairman Matt Moore lashed out atTrump’s plan to temporarily ban Muslims from the U.S.as un-American and unconstitutional. Trump, appealing to voters seeking a political outsider, could benefit from the persistent lack of clarity among the more mainstream Republicans struggling to challenge him. Trump won a whopping 46 percent backing among voters whose education extended no further than high school, then declined with each successive category: 38 percent among those who attended college but didn’t finish; 32 percent among college graduates; 23 percent among those with post-graduate degrees. The second President Bush also won here, in 2000 and 2004.
Sanders, who has represented mostly white Vermont in Congress for two decades, has rallied young people with his calls to end the “rigged economy” that he says is maintained by a corrupt campaign finance system. Just as Sanders tells his already politicized supporters that the revolution can only come if they become a permanent movement for greater equality, so Trump tells his largely depoliticized cadres that they can leave the task of revolution to him, once they do their bit by electing him.
The state’s senior Republican senator, Lindsey Graham, has said that choosing between Trump and Cruz is like choosing between being “shot or poisoned”. Problem is, those businessmen as a class were responsible for pressuring Congress to cut the very deals that shipped jobs to China, because it was in their financial interest to offshore production to take advantage of the cheaper labor.
People cheer as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Though a doctrinaire conservative, Kasich is nowhere near rabid enough for today’s Republican party.
The remaining Republican contender of note is John Kasich, the OH governor who catapulted from nowhere in Iowa to second place in New Hampshire.
So if there was any surprise, it was that the candidates those polls had been smiling on were Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. But network boss Ailes has tried that, and Trump not only survived the PR assaults, including one last month, but he seems to have emerged stronger than ever.
Trump beat the GOP field by double digits. “It’s going to resonate with the African-American community”. Most Southern states that will hold nominating contests on March 1 also have sizable minority populations. Breadth and expertise will enhance, not diminish, his credibility and appeal.
By rewarding Jeb Bush and punishing Marco Rubio, New Hampshire voters guaranteed the continuation of the political cage match between the two Floridians as the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination heads south.
Bush’s candidacy gained renewed life by Tuesday winning 11.1 percent of the vote and finishing in fourth place in New Hampshire.
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Unfortunately, there’s not much to learn from the New Hampshire results that would help predict the Sanders fortunes from here on out.
