Election Day: The New Hampshire Presidential Primary

[Warlord]

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How to watch the New Hampshire primary like a pro

The first polls will close at 7 p.m. Eastern, but some towns will keep them open until 8.

New Hampshire doesn’t just vote first — it votes earliest.

While most Granite Staters were tucked in their beds, residents of three small townships assembled right at midnight on Tuesday to cast the first ballots in the first-in-the-nation primary, an idiosyncratic element of a process steeped in quirky tradition.

But while there’s plenty of weirdness associated with the New Hampshire primary, it is a state-run election, not a complicated caucus run by a political party. That means the complete breakdown last week in Iowa is unlikely to happen in New Hampshire.

Just 27 voters turned out in Dixville Notch, Hart’s Location and Millsfield, a small fraction of the 292,000 Democratic voters that New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner expects to have their say on Tuesday — but those voters gave a very early lead to Amy Klobuchar before the bulk of the votes pour in.

Here’s everything you need to know to watch the New Hampshire primary like a pro when the rest of the polls open and close on Tuesday:

Who can vote in the Democratic primary?

In order to vote in the Democratic presidential primary, voters must either be registered Democrats or not be members of any political party. Registered Republicans can only vote in the GOP primary, and the deadline for voters to change their registration was last October.

Unenrolled voters who wish to remain independent must sign an additional card before leaving their polling place to avoid becoming a member of the party whose primary ballot they just pulled.

Who’s on the ballot?

This is one of those questions with no short answer.

There are 33 names on the Democratic primary ballot, including candidates who have since suspended their campaigns, like Cory Booker, Julián Castro and Kamala Harris. The Republican ballot is a little smaller: President Donald Trump has 16 other GOP challengers.

The ballot is so crowded because the qualification criteria are so small. In order to get on the ballot, candidates need to meet the constitutional requirements to be president (a natural-born citizen, at least 35 years of age), fill out a form, and pay a $1,000 filing fee.

The low bar to qualify creates some weirdness. Take this one: On the Republican ballot is “Roque ‘Rocky’ De La Fuente,” the California-based serial candidate who ran for Senate in roughly a dozen states in 2018. Meanwhile, his son, “Roque De La Fuente,” is on the Democratic ballot.

What time do the polls open?

There’s more quirkiness here, even putting the midnight-voting towns aside. The voting hours vary by city and town. In the two largest cities — Manchester and Nashua — the polls open at 6 a.m. Eastern.

But the polls open at 7 a.m. in Concord and Derry, the third- and fourth-largest cities. In other towns, the polls open at either 8 a.m., or as late as 11 a.m.

What time do the polls close?

Given all the eccentricities of voting in New Hampshire outlined thus far, do you really expect all polling places to close at the same time?

They don’t. Again, besides the three towns that open at midnight and close immediately, precincts in New Hampshire close at different times depending on the town, either at 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m. or 8 p.m. Polls close at 7 p.m. in Manchester, but 8 p.m. in Nashua.

When do we expect first results?

After the handful of votes cast at midnight, more results should begin streaming in shortly after 7 p.m. — but no news organization will project a winner until after all the polls have closed statewide at 8 p.m.

News organizations will also begin to report the results of the exit poll — which consists of interviews with voters as they depart their polling places — beginning at 8 p.m. We’ll probably have a small chunk of the votes counted by then, too.

How is the winner declared?

Unlike the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary is more straightforward: The candidate with the most votes wins.

But there is still some national delegate math at play. New Hampshire has 33 delegates, which will be doled out proportionally to candidates who get more than 15 percent of the vote statewide or in at least one of New Hampshire’s two congressional districts. The upshot: A narrow victory in the raw vote count may lead to the top candidates winning similar numbers of delegates.


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/11/new-hampshire-primary-how-to-watch-113697 (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/11/new-hampshire-primary-how-to-watch-113697?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000016f-c88a-d509-a7ff-ff8e494c0003&nlid=630318)

[Warlord]

The final polls show Mayor Pete surging......

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[Warlord]

Democrats set for NH thriller

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg are looking to separate from the pack and become the candidates to beat as voters head to the polls for the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) appears to be making a late charge, drawing her biggest crowds of the year and hauling in $2 million in 14 hours after glowing reviews about her debate performance in Manchester.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, long the front-runner in the race nationally, is now telegraphing a poor result in New Hampshire and hoping he can salvage his campaign later this month when voters in Nevada and South Carolina go to the polls.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who finished third in Iowa but has lost stature in the race to Sanders, is hoping for a strong result.

Democrats are hoping the result from New Hampshire provides some clarity after the muddled outcome in Iowa, which produced a split decision between Sanders and Buttigieg amid mass confusion and delays in the reported results.

The Vermont senator has long been the favorite to win neighboring New Hampshire, where he triumphed over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by more than 20 points in 2016. But he has only a small lead over Buttigieg in the latest polls, and the former South Bend mayor has been matching Sanders with big crowds of enthusiastic supporters.

Sanders, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are generating the most buzz in the state. They’re packing big venues and voters are waiting in long lines in frigid temperatures to get into their events.

New Hampshire voters — 42 percent of whom are registered independents — are known to break late. That could be good news for Klobuchar, or even Warren and Biden, although neither appears to have much momentum here.

“This is anyone’s race to win, I still believe that, with the huge number of voters who are still undecided,” said New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley.

Buttigieg notched a big crowd Sunday morning in Nashua, pulling 1,800 people into a local gymnasium. Voters stood in long lines snaking around Elm Street Middle School, holding “Pete for America” signs and wearing “Boot Edge Edge” shirts in the below-freezing temperatures.

Sanders bested that crowd later in the day with an event at Keene State College, where nearly 2,000 people came to hear him speak. He’ll likely top that Monday night at the 6,000-capacity Whittemore Center in Durham at an event featuring the popular indie rock band The Strokes.

The intensity of Sanders’s support has been on full display all weekend across the state, most notably in the rural areas where he’s expected to mop up.

About 750 people crammed into a small opera house in Rochester on Saturday morning as filmmaker Michael Moore and former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner worked the crowd. Hundreds had to be turned away on what was one of the state’s coldest days of the year.

Buttigieg and Sanders have been sharpening their attacks against one another in hopes of reaching independent voters.

Speaking at a high school gymnasium to about 700 people in Salem on Sunday, Buttigieg cast Sanders as an unbending ideologue who won’t be able to get anything done because he refuses to compromise.

“At a moment like this when the message goes out that you’re either for a revolution or you’re for the status quo, most of us don’t know where we fit and would rather make room for a movement that’s for all of us,” Buttigieg said.

Buttigieg needs a top showing in New Hampshire to get another look from voters of color before the contests in Nevada and South Carolina, where a more diverse electorate is set to vote. He’s hoping to leave New Hampshire as the favorite for Democrats eager to stop Sanders.

Sanders has leaned into the argument that Buttigieg is compromised by big money.

“If you’re serious about political change in America, change is not going to be coming from somebody who gets a lot of money from the CEOs of the pharmaceutical industry,” Sanders said at a campaign stop in Plymouth. “No one really believes you’re going to take on the pharmaceutical industry when they’re giving you massive amounts of money.”

Some Democrats are concerned Sanders could roll to the nomination with a victory in New Hampshire. “There’s just too many centrists battling each other and it’s playing right into Bernie’s hands,” said one Democrat who has raised money for Biden.

Klobuchar is hoping a strong showing for her campaign will set her up as the centrist alternative to Sanders. In her final pitch, she is urging voters to get on board with the underdog.

“A lot of people did not think I was going to make it through this summer, or make it to that debate stage,” Klobuchar said Monday at a lunch with voters in Nashua. “But I made it to that debate stage, and since that debate our campaign has been surging.”

Biden could be in big trouble with another distant finish in New Hampshire. His allies say he’ll soldier on even if he finishes in fifth place, believing that his strong support among African Americans will deliver him a victory in South Carolina.

“He’ll be fine,” said Democratic National Committee member Bob Mulholland, who supports Biden. “Nevada and South Carolina will turn him into the comeback kid.”

But the race will get more complicated for Biden after South Carolina, as former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg begins his efforts to collect delegates on Super Tuesday.

A new Quinnipiac University national poll released Monday found Sanders in the lead at 25 percent, followed by Biden at 17 percent and Bloomberg at 15 percent. Bloomberg has already spent more than $300 million on television ads and is the only candidate up and running in all 14 Super Tuesday states.

There are also questions about whether Warren, who is from neighboring Massachusetts, can survive a distant finish in New Hampshire.

Candidates from neighboring states have traditionally outperformed here, and it would be hard for Warren to make the case that she can challenge Sanders on the left after losing to him in Iowa and New Hampshire.


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482452-democrats-set-for-nh-thriller

[oyarde]

My secret hope is that yang would beat warren and biden for laughs .

[oyarde]

One of Yangs UBI families was in NH.

[Warlord]

My secret hope is that yang would beat warren and biden for laughs .


Are these the last days of the Yang Gang?

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, along with Buttigieg, was arguably the biggest surprise of the 2020 primary.

He rose from true obscurity -- when he told his family he was planning to run for president, some replied with, "President of what?" -- to garnering a devout and unique following online. His focus on a universal basic income has given his campaign the sort of animating cause that eluded some of his rivals.

But that is largely where the success ended.

Yang finished with 1% in Iowa and did not receive a national delegate. And his campaign had to lay off staff in the days following the caucuses there, signaling that, despite Yang's online fundraising prowess, money could be tightening.

Yang's top operatives believe New Hampshire, with more independent voters participating in the Democratic primary, could be better suited to backing the businessman-turned-politician. But recent polling shows Yang in the low single digits here.

"If we don't show as well in New Hampshire, there will be some reassessment," said a Yang aide, "especially if it ends up being the worst-case scenario."


https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/new-hampshire-primary-guide/index.html

[oyarde]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/new-hampshire-primary-guide/index.html

Today could signal the beginning of the end for biden , warren and yang .

[Warlord]

Today could signal the beginning of the end for biden , warren and yang .

Yang should run for Senate in California when Fienstein dies. They will love him there with his lunatic ideas.

[Warlord]

Majority in new poll says they would not vote for socialist

A majority of Americans surveyed in a new poll said they would not vote for a socialist candidate for president, with the most opposition coming from Republican voters.

Asked whether they would vote for their party nominee who was a “generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be socialist,” just 45 percent said yes and 53 percent said no, according to the Gallup poll released Tuesday.

The acceptance for a socialist nominee, is 2 percentage points lower in the recent poll than when Gallup asked the same question in June 2015.

Democrats are much more likely to say they would vote for a socialist, based on the new poll. Gallup found that 76 percent of Democrats said they would vote for a socialist, whereas just 17 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of independents said the same.

The situation could play out in the November elections, with President Trump and his allies already slamming the Democrats as socialists. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a leading candidate in the race, has also openly described himself as a Democratic Socialist.

The term Democratic Socialist does not appear to have been polled by Gallup in its survey.

One of Sanders’s top opponents, former Vice President Joe Biden, has said that having the Vermont senator on the top of the ticket could create a battle for down-ballot candidates in moderate races.

Gallup also surveyed Americans on their willingness to vote for candidates with other diverse characteristics, several of which are identifying factors for some of this year’s Democratic presidential candidates.

Gallup found that 93 percent of surveyed Americans said they would vote for a woman, a 1-point increase since 2015 when Hillary Clinton was on her way to becoming the first woman presidential nominee from a major party.

Gallup has reported a steady increase in Americans' willingness to vote for a woman since it started asking the question in 1958, when just 54 percent of Americans said they’d vote for a female candidate.

Three women remain in the 2020 field, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), after an unprecedented number of women ran at the beginning of the primary.

The new Gallup poll also found that 93 percent of Americans said they would vote for a Jewish candidate. Sanders could become the first Jewish nominee or president if successful in his presidential bid.

Americans have become increasingly willing to vote for a gay or lesbian candidate since Gallup began asking the question in 1983, according to the poll. Gallup found that 78 percent of Americans, including 89 percent of Democrats, said they would vote for a gay candidate, based.

More than eight in 10 independents -- 82 percent -- and 62 percent of Republicans also said they would vote for a gay or lesbian presidential candidate.

Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) is the first openly gay major presidential candidate. He would become the first openly gay presidential nominee and first gay president if elected.

Gallup surveyed 1,033 adults between Jan. 16 and 29. There is a margin of error of 4 percentage point


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482469-majority-in-new-poll-says-they-would-not-vote-for-socialist-gallup (https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482469-majority-in-new-poll-says-they-would-not-vote-for-socialist-gallup?__twitter_impression=true)

[Todd]

Here are your betting odds. I found in 2008 and 2012 that the people who were figuring this all up based on money were closer than the actual poltical polling. lol...

Bernie Sanders -600
Pete Buttigieg +450
Joe Biden +1400
Elizabeth Warren +2000
Andrew Yang +3300
Amy Klobuchar +8000
Tom Steyer +5000
Tulsi Gabbard

[Pauls' Revere]

One of Yangs UBI families was in NH.

of course, and I'm sure they were screened thoroughly for selection. I bet there are others in SC and NV too.

[Warlord]

Gabbard handled Hannity well here!

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jmdrake

[Anti Globalist]

Will Sanders have another state stolen from him? Guess we'll find out today.

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:rolleyes:

[donnay]

Gabbard handled Hannity well here!

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jmdrake

Tulsi should have been quicker on her feet and said to him the war on drugs has failed our society miserably. We need to have a conversation about this and decriminalizing seems to be the way to go. The opioids addiction was based on prescription drugs, it was even proven, in a court of law, that one of the pHARMa companies (Purdue) paid doctors to push the opioids on people--these drugs were deemed "legal."

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Polls have closed in most towns in New Hampshire.

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[Anti Federalist]

Seizing drug patents: 62% support, 27% oppose
Expanding Clean Air Act: 59%/33%
Descheduling marijuana: 58%/33%
Ending fossil fuel production on public lands: 51%/39%

Seizing drug patents...sounds like seizing the means of production to me.

Gaslighters like juleswin will try to tell you Bernie isn't a communist...of course he is. Any talk otherwise is just semantic nit picking.

Make no mistake, if Bernie is slated to run against Trump, it's going to be damned close for two reasons:

1 - The millions and millions of migrant invaders that have overrun the nation from failed socialist states to the south.

2 - Freedom, as a general sort of thing, is not popular....none of it. Free speech is hate speech. Free association is xenophobia. Freedom of religion is bigotry. Property rights are acts of rape against the earth mother...and on and on and on..

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[Anti Globalist]

Andrew Yang has dropped out. I was looking forward to hear him continue about how UBI is our number one issue.

[Valli6]

...the assholes gonna win!

[Warlord]

Andrew Yang has dropped out. I was looking forward to hear him continue about how UBI is our number one issue.

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[Warlord]

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[eleganz]

Gaslighters like juleswin will try to tell you Bernie isn't a communist...of course he is. Any talk otherwise is just semantic nit picking.


According to juleswin, the only proof that is needed to show Sanders is a communist, is a voting record of nationalizing private industry. LOL



Andrew Yang has dropped out. I was looking forward to hear him continue about how UBI is our number one issue.

Thats what bothered me too, a non-libertarian telling libertarians what they care about most. Unfortunately he suckered quite a few libertarians, a couple I personally know, some OGs right here on RPF kahless


Today could signal the beginning of the end for biden , warren and yang .

I think Biden will holdout for SC. Warren has enough gas in the tank to hold out past NH. I think there are supposed to be rumors shes in talks to cut a deal with Comrade Sanders.

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[oyarde]

According to juleswin, the only proof that is needed to show Sanders is a communist, is a voting record of nationalizing private industry. LOL




Thats what bothered me too, a non-libertarian telling libertarians what they care about most. Unfortunately he suckered quite a few libertarians, a couple I personally know, some OGs right here on RPF kahless



I think Biden will holdout for SC. Warren has enough gas in the tank to hold out past NH. I think there are supposed to be rumors shes in talks to cut a deal with Comrade Sanders.

Warren , yang & biden will all have zero delegates . Toast .

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The cut-off is a minimum of 15% of the votes. There are just 24 delegates at stake. By comparison, California will send nearly 500 to the convention.

[Warlord]

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[Zippyjuan]

Bill Weld took 12% of the Republican vote so far. He picked up one delegate in Iowa.

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[Zippyjuan]

Biden didn't even bother running any ads in New Hampshire. He is looking at Southern states starting with South Carolina.

[Warlord]

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Anti Federalist do you know anything about that area?

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[Anti Federalist]

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Anti Federalist do you know anything about that area?

Relatively conservative bedroom town that went for Trump in 2016.

Dense population by NH standards.

[Warlord]

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[oyarde]

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That's OK but nobody cares . Nor did they ever .

[oyarde]

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It closes a half hour later I think .

[oyarde]

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Anti Federalist do you know anything about that area?

Not problematic because trump will take it anyway .

[oyarde]

Bill Weld took 12% of the Republican vote so far. He picked up one delegate in Iowa.

Thats pretty well over too . NH will be his best state .

[oyarde]

Biden didn't even bother running any ads in New Hampshire. He is looking at Southern states starting with South Carolina.

Rumors are warren has quit spending in those states .

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TIGHTENED....

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[juleswin]

Seizing drug patents...sounds like seizing the means of production to me.

Gaslighters like juleswin will try to tell you Bernie isn't a communist...of course he is. Any talk otherwise is just semantic nit picking.

Make no mistake, if Bernie is slated to run against Trump, it's going to be damned close for two reasons:

1 - The millions and millions of migrant invaders that have overrun the nation from failed socialist states to the south.

2 - Freedom, as a general sort of thing, is not popular....none of it. Free speech is hate speech. Free association is xenophobia. Freedom of religion is bigotry. Property rights are acts of rape against the earth mother...and on and on and on..

Considering that the US govt funds most of the drug research in the US. I am not really opposed to the US govt taking ownership of those drugs developed with federal funding. If this is communism then you guys win, I am a communist since I don't oppose such an idea.

[Anti Federalist]

Considering that the US govt funds most of the drug research in the US. I am not really opposed to the US govt taking ownership of those drugs developed with federal funding. If this is communism then you guys win, I am a communist since I don't oppose such an idea.

I don't know or care what your political persuasion is...all I know is that Comrade Bernie is a commie, in the true sense of the word.

[Anti Federalist]

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FWIW:




In NH primary tonight,

Donald Trump is very likely to beat the vote percentages of the last 3 incumbent presidents who WON re-election.

1996 Bill Clinton 84%
2004 George W. Bush 80%
2012 Barack Obama 82%

Trump right now is pushing 86%.

This is historic strength!

[Pauls' Revere]

Somebody named Bennet dropped out.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-michael-bennet-drops-out-of-presidential-race/

[Anti Federalist]

Race has been called.

Bernie wins NH.

https://i.imgur.com/iWYgVRj.jpg

[dannno]

Bernie wins NH

He could still lose by 0.1%

[Pauls' Revere]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-warren-didnt-waste-time-021200595.html

Warren concedes NH.

From the comments section: She did however claim 1/1024th of a delegate from NH.


ROFLMAO :D

[Swordsmyth]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-warren-didnt-waste-time-021200595.html

Warren concedes NH.

From the comments section: She did however claim 1/1024th of a delegate from NH.


ROFLMAO :D
LOL

[Brian4Liberty]

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The Democrats would have a hard time justifying their debate discrimination against the only woman of color in the race when she is getting more votes than Yang.


Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur whose unlikely White House bid evolved into a serious campaign thanks to grassroots enthusiasm, pulled out of the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday after New Hampshire delivered him a second straight poor showing. (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-yang-idUSKBN206042)

Never mind, Yang got the message.

[Warlord]

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Virtually tied with delegates..

[Swordsmyth]

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1227450251834986499

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[Swordsmyth]

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/11/21126941/new-hampshire-primary-results-2020









Bernie Sanders
71,825
25.87%




Pete Buttigieg
67,121
24.17%




Amy Klobuchar
55,070
19.83%




Elizabeth Warren
25,725
9.27%




Joe Biden
24,101
8.68%




Tom Steyer
9,949
3.58%




Tulsi Gabbard
8,984
3.24%




Andrew Yang
7,843
2.82%




Other
4,879
1.76%




Deval Patrick
1,168
0.42%




Michael Bennet
992
0.36%



90.24% reporting (268 of 297 precincts)
| 277,657 total votes

[Swordsmyth]

New York Times Election Results Here (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/11/us/elections/results-new-hampshire-primary-election.html) CNN Election Results Here (https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/state/new-hampshire) WMUR Election Results Here (https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-primary-election-results-tuesday-february-11-2020/30570195)

[Swordsmyth]

CANDIDATE
VOTES
%

TRAILS LEADER BY
PLEDGED DELEGATES






https://politics-static.cnn.io/2020/static-assets/images/headshots/sanders-medium.pngSanders (https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/candidate/sanders)
73,470
25.9%



-
9





https://politics-static.cnn.io/2020/static-assets/images/headshots/buttigieg-medium.pngButtigieg (https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/candidate/buttigieg)
69,216
24.4%



4,254
9





https://politics-static.cnn.io/2020/static-assets/images/headshots/klobuchar-medium.pngKlobuchar (https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/candidate/klobuchar)
55,982
19.8%



17,488
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[donnay]

President Donald Trump did not have a serious primary challenger for 2020, but Republican voters came out in droves to support him in the Republican New Hampshire primary.

With 86 percent reporting, Trump earned 117,462 votes in the New Hampshire Republican primary, more than twice the 49,080 primary voters who voted for former President Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary in 2012.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/11/donald-trump-beats-obama-turnout-nh-primary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%2 9

[Warlord]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/11/donald-trump-beats-obama-turnout-nh-primary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%2 9

Anti Federalist reckons he will flip the state this time which gives him room elsewhere. NH went to Clinton last time by 0.3% amidst allegations of voter fraud.

[donnay]

Anti Federalist reckons he will flip the state this time which gives him room elsewhere. NH went to Clinton last time by 0.3% amidst allegations of voter fraud.

I am not following what you mean?

[Warlord]

I am not following what you mean?

NH will likely go to Trump in 2020. In 2016 Clinton won by 0.3% with reports of voter fraud

[Anti Globalist]

Looks like Sanders won New Hampshire.

[ProBlue33]

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Well look at that, same times running but Ron Paul has him beat


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb2Ee_GYMZI

[Warlord]

How did he manage to get elected in Delaware all those years? He's a terrible candidate.

[donnay]

NH will likely go to Trump in 2020. In 2016 Clinton won by 0.3% with reports of voter fraud

From what I saw at the polls yesterday, people came out in droves. Once you checked in, you were given a pink or blue piece of paper to get your ballot. The pink was Republican and blue was Democrats. I looked around and there was a sea of pink papers all around the room.

Trump is going to win by a landslide, and it is harder to rig an election by landslide. I am convinced Trump won by a landslide in 2016--because there were lots of questionable outcomes across the country, but Trump still won.

[donnay]

How did he manage to get elected in Delaware all those years? He's a terrible candidate.

Corruption.

[Anti Federalist]

NH will likely go to Trump in 2020. In 2016 Clinton won by 0.3% with reports of voter fraud

If my insignificant vote means anything it will.

I've decided to vote for him.

Be my first non Ron Paul vote in 12 years.

[Anti Federalist]

How did he manage to get elected in Delaware all those years? He's a terrible candidate.

It's not anything as nefarious as massive corruption.

The two miserable broads we have as NH senators are just as bad, if not worse, than Biden.

Name recognition and complacency.

And they get elected over and over again.

[donnay]

Corruption.


Biden’s senate campaign committees received $208,175 from MBNA employees from 1989 through 2010, the second-largest source of contributions, according to the Center for Responsive Politics’ OpenSecrets.org. In the 2006 election cycle, employees from Citigroup employees donated $18,825, those from Bear Stearns donated $15,000 and from Goldman Sachs donated $10,500.

In total, Biden received $1,126,375 from those in the securities and investment industry, $304,475 from finance and credit company workers, and $295,900 from commercial bank employees.

Biden’s ties to MBNA and banks span beyond political contributions from its employees. Home sales, family jobs, and free trips caused critics to dub him “the senator from MBNA.”

In February 1996, MBNA executive John Cochran bought Biden’s home outside Wilmington for the full $1.2 million asking price, while other similarly appraised houses at the time sold for around $100,000 to $200,000 less than asking price. MBNA then paid Cochran $330,115 that year for moving expenses and noted that he lost $210,000 due to the sale of his Maryland home.

Cochran also donated $2,000 to Biden’s 1996 Senate reelection campaign, FEC records show. MBNA in 1997 flew Biden and his wife to Maine so he could give a speech, Biden’s Senate financial disclosure showed.

Biden’s son Hunter started a job MBNA in November 1996 after Biden won reelection, in part because he wanted to be close to home. After leaving the company, Hunter became a lobbyist, but continued collecting an undisclosed amount of money from MBNA as a consultant — all while the bankruptcy bill moved through Congress. MBNA said that Hunter never lobbied for them and that his work had nothing to do with the bankruptcy bill.

The Wilmington News-Journal noted in 2008 that Biden was "neighbor to wealthy and powerful company titans and du Pont family members," one of the richest families in America.

A spokesperson for Biden did not respond to a request for comment, but in a 2008 NBC interview Biden downplayed his family’s relationships with MBNA executives and rejected the notion that he was in the “pocket of the corporate lobbyists.” Those who defended Biden’s support for the bankruptcy bill said that he was looking out for the interests of Delaware’s economy, a major financial and banking center.

Biden’s support for the 2005 bankruptcy bill sets him apart from progressive Democrats running for president and other Democratic leaders in Congress. Independent then-Rep. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinsten of California, Barack Obama of Illinois, and Chuck Schumer of New York all voted against the bill. Elizabeth Warren, not yet a senator, fought against the changes.

“The bill was a big, fat, wet kiss for credit card companies and auto lenders. It ensured that private student loans could not be discharged in bankruptcies,” Levitin said. “It also exacerbated risky mortgage lending.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/middle-class-joe-cozied-up-to-credit-card-companies-and-made-filing-for-bankruptcy-harder

[ProBlue33]

If my insignificant vote means anything it will.

I've decided to vote for him.

Be my first non Ron Paul vote in 12 years.

Interesting, did he win you over, or is the other side just so insane, it's more like "must stop the fools at all costs"

[ProBlue33]

glitch double post

[Krugminator2]

https://i.redd.it/888fyxwr1fg41.jpg

Well look at that, same times running but Ron Paul has him beat


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb2Ee_GYMZI

Sort of. Ron did do better than Biden in Iowa and NH but never won a primary or caucus either. (Unless you count the Virgin Islands.)

[ProBlue33]

Sort of. Ron did do better than Biden in Iowa and NH but never won a primary or caucus either. (Unless you count the Virgin Islands.)

Actually he did win some states at convention; Iowa, Maine, and Minnesota went to Ron Paul at the convention.
That is the point, Biden is worse than Ron Paul in overall popularity, he was only VP because Obama pulled him in.

[Anti Federalist]

Interesting, did he win you over, or is the other side just so insane, it's more like "must stop the fools at all costs"

A little of both.

The final deciding straw for me was Trump's rollback of EPA rules that would have, for all intents and purposes, banned any new woodstoves starting 20 May of this year.

Real world reduction in government regulation has made my job easier and reduced my exposure to criminal prosecution for just doing my job.

Bernie and the rest of the Bolsheviks want to put me in jail, for doing my job.

It's come to a "no-brainer" choice.

[Danke]

7452

[Anti Globalist]

7452
And somehow Dems think they can win this election.

[jmdrake]

Gabbard handled Hannity well here!

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jmdrake

LOL "Don't make me be a jerk." As if that wasn't already the case.

One of my proudest moments of being part of this movement. (And no I wasn't there).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uWTJo9n7KI

[Working Poor]

Bernie and the rest of the Bolsheviks want to put me in jail, for doing my job.

It's come to a "no-brainer" choice.

Ohh Yikes!!

[Anti Federalist]

Ohh Yikes!!

No kidding...they mean it...I'm a "climate criminal".