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New Hampshire Primary 2016:
No Surprise
The results are in from Tuesday’s New Hampshire Primary 2016. The big surprise of the night was — there were no surprises.
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As expected, Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders handily beat his lone rival, former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton. Bernie ended the night winning 59.6% of the vote, to Hillary’s 38.5%. Since Sen. Sanders is himself a New Englander and represents the neighboring State of Vermont, his victory was widely expected for weeks.
“Because of huge voter turnout — and I say huge! — we won,” Sanders told a jubilant crowd of supporters gathered at a local high school gymnasium. “We harnessed the energy and the excitement that the Democratic Party will need to succeed in November.”
Sanders then thanked his supporters for helping to deliver a message that he believes will “echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California.”
“And that is that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people, and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super PACS,” he added.
After winning last week’s Iowa Caucus by a razor-thin .04% and then losing to Sanders in the New Hampshire Primary, Hillary Clinton recognizes her campaign has major issues, particularly with energizing young voters. During her concession speech on Tuesday night, Mrs. Clinton openly acknowledged that she has her work cut out for her.
“I know I have some work to do, particularly with young people,” she said. “Now we take this campaign to the entire country. We’re going to fight for every vote in every state.”
Mrs. Clinton will need to double-down on her efforts, since throngs of females are not flocking to support her candidacy as was expected. Over the weekend, the Clinton Campaign pulled out feminist Gloria Steinem and America’s first female Secretary of State, Madeline Albright., in a failed attempt to stir up female power. Based on public sentiment and the New Hampshire Primary results, their efforts on behalf of the campaign have provided zero results.
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On the Republican side, Donald Trump finally enjoyed his first electoral victory, winning the New Hampshire Primary with 34.5% of the vote.
“We are going to make America great again,” Trump shouted to supporters packed inside his Manchester victory rally.
“Do we have a ground game or what? You know, we learned a lot about ground games in one week, I have to tell you that,” Trump said, referring to his surprise loss to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Iowa, who had a much more superior ground organization.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the night was that Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in 2nd place, with 16.4% of the vote.
“When the media kept saying, ‘well, how are you going to do this? Can you finish high?’ You know what I said?” Kasich told a crowd of supporters. “I have an insurance policy. It’s you,” a surprised but happy Kasich told his New Hampshire supporters.
Sadly, Iowa Caucus winner Ted Cruz finished 3rd with 11.5%, while Jeb Bush came in 4th with 11.2%. Still, each man believes they have a chance as others fall by the wayside.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who many believed was the perfect anti-Trump “establishment” candidate, finished pitifully in 5th place, winning only 10.5% of the vote.
“I’m disappointed with tonight,” Rubio told supporters Tuesday night. “But I want you to understand something. Our disappointment is not on you. It’s on me. I did not do so well Saturday night [at the Republican Debate], so listen to this: that will never happen again.”
With Sen. Rand Paul dropping out of the Republican contest after a poor showing in Iowa, the clock is now ticking for Gov. Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina and Dr. Ben Carson who are each failing to gain traction. Christie, was was scheduled to fly to South Carolina right after the New Hampshire vote, instead flew back home to New Jersey to “reassess” his campaign going forward.
“I have won elections that I was supposed to lose, and I lost elections that I was supposed to win,” Christie said, adding “It means you never know. It’s both the magic and the mystery of politics.”
It will come as no surprise if Christie or any of the other lesser candidates decide to drop out prior to the South Carolina primary election on February 27th.
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Once again – great breakdown DJ
Re: Bernie's solid win and Hillary's loss
Bernie was going to win. We knew that. But I had hoped that Hillary would've gotten at least 40% of the vote. She came close. 38.5%. But I suspect the condescending remarks made by "feminist icons," Gloria Steinem and Madelyn Albright actually costs Hillary at least 1.5 percentage of votes, particularly among young women.
Kathleen Parker at WashPost writes: "The feminist era of Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright has come to a close."
But it's more nuanced than that. I would say the "Feminist Revolution" led by fearless Women (like Hillary) who dared to fight for Equality was so successful that TODAY women of ALL ages are FREE to think for Ourselves and Choose for Ourselves. WE will NOT be taken for granted or lectured to by anybody….male or female.
Hillary has to wage a smarter fight if she wants to win the Dem nomination. I am confident she CAN win it. But it's going to be up to her.
Re: Trump
I still doubt he'll win the Repub nomination. However, if he does win the nomination the destruction of the Repub party (as we've known it) will be complete.
Re: Kasich
I've expressed time and again why I feel Kasich would pose the biggest threat to Hillary (assuming she wins the nomination) and I still feel that way. But I've also noted that rank-and file right-wing voters can't stand Kasich and will not support his nomination. They'd rather burn ther entire *house* down (the Repub party) then vote for another "RINO" again.
Re: Christie and Rubio
Turns out the pundit-idiots were right this time. Rubio was indeed hurt by Christie's recent debate smack-down. But it appears Christie also knocked himself out in the process.
What a presidential primary season!?!…smh.
HuffPost:
New Hampshire’s Democratic primary voters confirmed Tuesday that they do, in fact, want a self-described democratic Socialist as their party’s presidential nominee. […]
TPM:
I believe we can say with a reasonably high level of confidence that Marco Rubio's quest for the presidency is over. I don't expect he realizes it yet. I don't expect he'll drop out any time soon. But a broad appraisal of the fundamentals should tell us fairly clearly that the end is only a matter of time. […]
RedState:
For Bush, this is a race against time. His campaign is on the verge of going broke. It is arguable whether his New Hampshire showing is going to bring him the hard money that he needs to survive. A third place finish in South Carolina would probably give him a new lease on life. Fourth place there ends his campaign.[…]
NRO:
So to summarize where we are today: Trump has his mojo back, Cruz is positioned far better than any of his non-Trump foes, and the establishment lane of the primary is a multi-car pile-up.
It’s enough to have the RNC and the denizens of K Street reaching for their Alka Seltzer. […]
I'm real worried for Hillary. Her whole campaign style is old and she acts like it's still 1980. The tone she takes or even how her and Bill tried to attack Bernie was just old politics and these young kids don't like all that. Like DJ said last week she needs to get rid of her playbook and get a new one because this one isn't working so well for her. As for Trump, I heard Repubs are starting to think there is no way to stop him now and he might win the nomination. So they are thinking if you can't beat him join him. That should be interesting.
"Fun’s Over With Trump"
Excerpt:
I’ve enjoyed the Trump show. I’ve enjoyed the way he’s shaken up the Republican Party, frazzled Conservatism, Inc., and put the state of the beleaguered white working class into the political conversation. I liked him when he was a threat to established interests. But now that he’s coming off as a threat to democracy, this isn’t funny anymore.
This guy is a hooligan. A man who talks like a mafioso while bragging about his lack of compunction for Constitutional niceties is not someone a democracy can afford to have head the executive branch of the US Government. I believe that when it gets right down to it, most Americans will be unwilling to take a risk on a president with that kind of character. There’s something of the back alley to him. If America needs to shred the Constitution and embrace torture with gusto to “be great again,” then she will already be ruined. […]
Rod Dreher @ The American Conservative
"I Miss Barack Obama"
Excerpt:
No, Obama has not been temperamentally perfect. Too often he’s been disdainful, aloof, resentful and insular. But there is a tone of ugliness creeping across the world, as democracies retreat, as tribalism mounts, as suspiciousness and authoritarianism take center stage.
Obama radiates an ethos of integrity, humanity, good manners and elegance that I’m beginning to miss, and that I suspect we will all miss a bit, regardless of who replaces him. […] – David Brooks, Conservative writer, NYT, 2-9-16
NYTimes Reader:
Before writing this comment to applaud today’s column by David Brooks, I paused to reflect on whether or not the column impressed me only because I agree with nearly everything Mr. Brooks wrote today.
No, David Brooks has written the truth eloquently, making clear that he has not agreed with everything Pres. Obama has done. Brooks grasped the larger points of how a president should go about making decisions and how he should conduct himself in public and private and how he should interact with his political opponents with respect and civility.
Conservatives painted themselves into a corner at the outset of the Obama administration by vowing unwavering obstructionist tactics, some of which descended into mocking insolence along thinly veiled racial lines.
President Obama, resembling another pioneer, Jackie Robinson, gritted his teeth and smiled when he could, taking everything they dished out.
Now, as things have gotten even worse as far as vicious political attacks and unapologetic vulgarity – including by one Republican against another – we all should appreciate the morality and class of Barack Obama. […]
bye
Re: "I Miss Barack Obama" by David Brooks
NYT Reader:
Thanks David, a great quote: the "pornography of pessimism". This has become a global epidemic if not worse. A catastrophe perhaps. Obama has inspired and will be sadly missed. The grand experiment may have created more division than harmony. That will only change with hindsight. Sadly, it seems that he could almost please all of the people some of the time, and perhaps please some of the people all of the time, but it is never, and never will be, possible to please all of the people all of the time. Unfortunately, our expectations overwhelm our reality and leave us disenchanted with our democracy. No one seems able to rekindle Kennedy's "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." […]
NYT Reader:
This column just makes me angry. David, you and your conservative counterparts have done EVERTHING you can to undermine Obama's presidency, and now you're going to miss him? Too bad you couldn't take all that effort tearing him down and try to encourage the Republicans in Congress to work together with him for the American people. Like Joni Mitchell sang "you don't know what you've got til it's gone".
Shame on you. […]
Thank you for sharing these excerpts, Truthiz1. I think the one NYT reader said it best with: "you don't know what you've got til it's gone".
– DJ
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