Candidates sprint to NH finish, but brace for long campaign

Pollsters have noted that New Hampshire voters are famous for making their decision in the last 48 hours before the primary, warning there could be surprises.

“You aren’t just a loser, you’re a liar and a whiner”, Mr Bush said on Twitter.

Van Antwerpen, who declined to say who she voted for, said she was just glad the primary season, at least for New Hampshire, was finally over. “Shout it out because I don’t want to”, adding “She said he’s a pussy”.

HILLARY CLINTON: The former secretary of state faces a tough challenge in New Hampshire from Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist senator from neighboring Vermont, who has led 33 consecutive polls since early January.

“Can I tell you what?” “It’s pretty much – he didn’t answer the question”, Tidd said of Republican candidate Jeb Bush.

It was a family affair for the Clintons in New Hampshire Monday, with daughter Chelsea joining.

The Republican field remains crowded with more traditional candidates, including Rubio. He blasted what he said was Trump’s proclivity for “insulting women, castigating Hispanics, ridiculing the disabled and calling American POWs losers”. In the 2012 New Hampshire primary only 13% of Republicans said the quality they looked for most in a candidate was that he be a “true conservative”.

However, Rubio performed poorly during the Republican debate on Saturday night, when he was lambasted for mechanically repeating the same tirade against Obama five times. Bill Clinton did it in 1992, and Hillary Clinton rebounded here after losing Iowa in 2008.

In the Iowa caucuses, which kicked off the presidential election process, Cruz won the Republican race, while Clinton defeated Sanders by a very narrow margin. Chris Christie, Rubio’s tormenter Saturday night, has the most ground to make up in New Hampshire, and also has the weakest prospects going forward, with no particular state in sight where he has any kind of natural base until well down the road.

According to RealClear Politics, in three polls that gathered voter opinion as late as Sunday, Sanders had a lead of at least 12 points. That’s a shift in Sanders’ favor since the start of the poll, when the split was 61 percent Sanders to 25 percent Clinton.