New Hampshire results

As in Iowa, Pete and Bernie finished neck-and-neck. This time it was Bernie with the slight edge. They will each get nine delegates of New Hampshire’s 24.

The big surprise of the evening was Amy Klobuchar. The momentum showed by the polls was totally real. A week ago she was polling at 6% in NH and she finished around 20%, thus making a good run at a win and claiming the Granite State’s six remaining delegates.

Warren and Biden finished in single figures and earned no delegates at all. Biden’s fifth-place finish has erased the frontrunner facade and has left him gasping for breath, hopeful of moving south for better health, like any other crotchety old geezer.

22 thoughts on “New Hampshire results

  1. Bloomberg/Klobuchar might be the ideal ticket. But we don’t know. One of the vital characteristics of the chief of the executive of our government is competent executive skills. That is the ability to formulate an effective assignment and reporting schematic (huge in this case), keep at least 100 balls in the air, deal with the results and still be able to get a good night’s sleep. The big business world is quite aware of this executive requirement and the American public also should be aware of it. Yet it never seems to be discussed, explored and considered for the voting booth.

    Roosevelt had it. Obama had it. And, whether we like or not, Trump has it big time. We are reduced to a guess that Bloomberg might have it and we wonder whether the charismatic Klobuchar has it. They are applying for the largest executive position in the world.

    1. Except for Bloomberg, isn’t Mayor Pete the only candidate with meaningful executive experience? (Even though the others seem to deride him for his lack of experience, he seems to be the only one with relevant experience.)

      Granted, South Bend is not the Big Apple, but at least he has run something. It seems to me that the rest of them couldn’t run a bodega.

      1. Amy Klobuchar was Hennepin County Attorney from 1998-2006. Hennepin County (Minneapolis and area) has a population of over 1,000,000 and, according to the Hennepin County Attorney’s office website the office presently has 460 employees. Certainly there are executive responsibilities in this position.

        1. Fair point. I don’t think of her as a serious contender, but after New Hampshire, I will have to!

  2. If you check the full results, the reason Deval Patrick took an extra day to drop out becomes clear: he was spending all last evening celebrating his crushing win over Michael Bennet.

    1. I saw your comment about how democrats always talk about specific policy and conservatives just speak in absolutes like “we want small government”. Don’t you realize they are one and the same?

      Conservatives don’t want policy at all. A frozen federal government is actually in the conservatives best interest because policy gets kicked to the states. I’m not talking about big government republicans. True conservatives don’t want the feral government to do a thing other than protect the citizenry, defend the borders, and keep the economy humming through deregulation (as in LACK of policy).

      IMHO this is the biggest gulf between the beliefs of liberals and conservatives. Liberals think the debate is over policy. Conservatives think the debate is over state vs federal power. They are comparing apples to oranges and thus talk over each other.

  3. I think the main story here is the failure of the Biden and Warren campaigns. Not too long ago, they were both considered the frontrunners for the non-Bernie vote. Now they are both on life support, and may drop out after Nevada and/or South Carolina.

    I like Klobuchar, but she strikes me as another Pete Buttigieg — a candidate whose appeal is limited to well educated white voters. I think the media (which clearly favors her) is exaggerating her level of success. A 5th place showing in Iowa and a 3rd place showing in NH isn’t much to brag about.

    Maybe a Bloomberg/Klobuchar ticket? That would probably appeal to a lot of moderates, including myself.

      1. That wouldn’t be a geographically balanced ticket, would it? Bloomberg/Harris is a likely ticket if Bloomberg is the Democrat nominee for President.

  4. it’s settled: Bernie for President with Mayor Pete as a running mate for when/ if Bernie croaks on the job.

    1. Biden was DOA before Iowa last Monday!

      Unless things improve greatly for he and Warren after S. Carolina and Nevada the Dem field may be realistically cut in half.

      The biggest take away from the results in my opinion is just how low the voter turnout was. There is a serious branding issue for the party right now and there really is no answer to inspire voters inside of this group of candidates.

      1. Except NH turnout was high: “Turnout for the New Hampshire Democratic primary has surpassed 2016 levels and is nearly as high as 2008, as Sen. Bernie Sanders is projected to win the Granite State over former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar with 90% reporting.” Looks like the Midwest is somnambulant.

        1. For further context, in the 2016 General Election, Hillary Clinton received 348,526 votes in New Hampshire. So, over 80% of Democratic 2016 general election voters, voted in the primary.

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