… 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 »
If Sanders, Buttigieg and Klobuchar want to win, they need to quickly shift gears
On Tuesday night, three candidates punched their tickets to Super Tuesday. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg came in second in the voting and tied for delegates, and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar surged past Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former […] 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 »
New Hampshire primary exit poll: Who supported Sanders, Buttigieg and Klobuchar
The New Hampshire Democratic primary brought to the surface various issues that divided voters — frequently pitting Bernie Sanders on one side against Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar on the other. … Exit polls show Democratic primary voters prioritized beating President Trump over having a candidate who agrees with them […] 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 »
Candidates say they want to build momentum with voters – but what is that actually worth?
Before the primary, Buttigieg said his campaign had the ‘strongest momentum.’ AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Daniel Palazzolo, University of Richmond and Ernest B. McGowen III, University of Richmond “I’ve got the ‘Big Mo,’” said George H. Bush after winning the Iowa caucuses in 1980. “We are the campaign with the strongest […] Read more »