The results of the Iowa and New Hampshire contests amount to a strategic victory for Bernie Sanders, fracturing his opposition and opening a path for him to win the nomination. But the results do not leave him in a dominant position. His support in national polls remains in the low-to-mid […] Read more »
Sanders Won The New Hampshire Vote. So How Did ‘Klobucharge’ Win The Narrative?
In a late night installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew reacted to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s win in the New Hampshire primary. They also looked at the parts of the electorate that powered Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar to strong second and third place finishes, respectively, and asked […] Read more »
A Drawn-Out Nomination Fight Is More Likely Than Ever
Senator Bernie Sanders’s unexpectedly narrow victory in New Hampshire underscored the splintering of the Democratic presidential field that was evident in last week’s murky Iowa caucus—and left two of his opponents facing grim questions about their future viability. … The New Hampshire results confirmed Sanders and Buttigieg as the field’s […] Read more »
The primary in New Hampshire came down to the last few hours of the race
… Elections are usually fairly easy to predict. Candidates hold leads for weeks on end and go on to victory. That’s not what happened in New Hampshire. There, a race that had been the focus of attention for months was probably only determined in the last 12 hours before polls […] Read more »
Democrats now face a fractured and divisive contest for the nomination
Democrats braced themselves Tuesday night for a long and divisive contest for their party’s presidential nomination after New Hampshire voters added new uncertainty to a race already scrambled by last week’s caucuses in Iowa. … The likely prospect now is that Sanders and several other candidates will divide the vote […] Read more »
What do the results of the 2020 New Hampshire primary mean?
Against the backdrop of muddled results from the botched Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, always an important bellwether, has done what Iowa failed to do: bring some clarity to the Democratic race. The three winners last night, Senator Bernie Sanders, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Amy Klobuchar, together accounted […] Read more »