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Granite State Follies

 

 

New Hampshire gave victories to Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, both winning by double digit margins, Trump by 20 points and Sanders by 22 points.

 

Clinton knew going  in that she was going to lose but hoped to make it close and she did not.  If Sanders can win outside of a state next door to his, and if he can show drawing power among blacks and Hispanics, watch other Democrats jump in, as the Democrat establishment goes into melt down mode.

On the GOP side the chief loser, besides common sense, was Rubio who came in fifth, Jeb Bush’ dying campaign edging him for fourth.  Ted Cruz came in third, with Kasich resurrecting his campaign from the grave to come in second.  Trump won with the votes of non-Republicans, an astonishing 45% of the voters in the GOP primary calling themselves independents and breaking heavily for Trump.  The good news for Trump is that he won last night.  The bad news is that 35% is probably his ceiling in a GOP primary, at least if that is the best he can do in a favorable state like New Hampshire.  How Trump does in the remaining 48 contests will depend on how long multiple candidates stay in the race before it becomes a one on one contest.  I think it still is a Trump, Rubio and Cruz race, but Kasich is definitely in the race now through Super Tuesday and that is good news for Trump.

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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Wednesday, February 10, AD 2016 4:56am

I fully expected a state filled with drug addicts to vote for a commie pinko geriatric on the left and a philandering playboy gambler on the right.

Foxfier
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Wednesday, February 10, AD 2016 11:09am

Funny, I saw the independents thing spun as he was “equally popular among independents and registered Republicans.”

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Thursday, February 11, AD 2016 4:18am

The Primaries are the best show on TV this. Stranger than fiction for sure. I have no idea how it’s going to turn out but for the time being it’s great drama.

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Thursday, February 11, AD 2016 1:38pm

And now, the Walsh Report from New Hampshire: New Hampshire, being the least church-going state, lacks a large number of traditional values voters. Nonetheless, they are sufficiently rational to know they have been taken for granted by the political elite of both parties. They can at long last recognize the false advertising that comprises politics as usual. So they went for Trump in the role of Elmer Gantry, and Sanders playing Sanders.

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