Polls just closed in New Hampshire, so here’s a thread for talking about the results as they come in. PBS will be updating vote totals here.
Any comments about the presidential race are welcome in this thread. It’s hard for me to see any of the other Republicans stopping Mitt Romney, especially with Rick Perry helping to splinter the conservative vote ahead of the South Carolina primary on January 21. Nor can I see any path for Jon Huntsman, even if he finishes a strong second or third tonight. I’m highly amused by Newt Gingrich’s strident rhetoric against Bain-style vulture capitalism.
UPDATE: With two-thirds of the vote in, Romney is the clear winner by a double-digit margin (38 percent to 24 percent for Ron Paul and 17 percent for Huntsman, with Gingrich and Santorum at 10 percent). Right now Perry trails “other.”
SECOND UPDATE: With 95 percent of precincts reporting, Romney has 39 percent, Paul 23 percent, Huntsman 17 percent, Gingrich and Santorum 9 percent each, and Perry 1 percent.
As Bleeding Heartland user albert pointed out in the comments, President Barack Obama received only about 82 percent of more than 50,000 votes cast in the Democratic primary. Nearly 10 percent of Democratic primary voters wrote in candidates. Of the 13 other named candidates on the Democratic ballot, two received more than 1 percent of the vote: Ed Cowan, who ran on a platform of “major change,”, and Vermin Supreme, a performance artist running on a joke platform.
7 Comments
it's been called for Romney (n/t)
albert Tue 10 Jan 7:05 PM
Michele Bachmann
is getting votes, LOL.
albert Tue 10 Jan 7:22 PM
I like how "other"
leads Rick Perry. Don’t know how much of that is Karger, how much is Roemer and random write-ins.
desmoinesdem Tue 10 Jan 9:15 PM
this is a bad night for everyone not named Romney
1. He’s nearing 40%, which makes Dems unhappy.
2. Santorum has slipped below “double digits,” which makes conservatives unhappy. Additionally, still in fifth place — Gingrich’s fat ass is just big enough to be a tad ahead all night.
3. Rick Perry is unhappy. Getting thumped by “other.”
4. Huntsman is a distant third to Ron Paul.
albert Tue 10 Jan 10:37 PM
Huntsman
Ron Paul is getting more and more confident with every post primary/caucus speech, It’s always interesting to see a candidate who has nothing to lose start waxing poetic. I don’t see another state at this point in the early contests where his message still plays particularly well except for maybe Nevada.
Bless Jon Huntsman for bringing a little more sanity to the debate, people who are running his campaign have done a bad job appealing to that John McCain voter. McCain is a principled conservative who spoke about patriotism without the useless rhetoric of say a Rick Perry,
Huntsman is practical on foreign policy as well without going into the borderline, creepy anti-UN type of stuff that Ron Paul dances with in my view.
moderateiadem Tue 10 Jan 8:44 PM
Sue Dvorsky owes "uncommitted" an apology
All that fuss about 1.5% or so uncommitted.
Obama got 81.80% in NH-Dem.
Almost 10% went to write-in (supposedly, an HRC write-in campaign).
Vermin Supreme received 1.43% — almost as much as “uncommitted” in Iowa!
Those naughty NH voters. Don ‘t they know that 1.5% represents the upper limit on kooks, freaks and purists?
And just think — quite a few Dems crossed over to vote Paul.
albert Tue 10 Jan 10:59 PM
Baseline Liberals are once again out of touch...
With society at large. Not recognizing the needs of those truly marginalized by a serious economic downturn led to the election of the “Greatest President of All Time” in 1980.
I’m too angry watching ICCI marginalize the voices of those who show up at the Iowa Occupy meetings and rallies that have say, actually HAD a house foreclosure, to even begin to be effective.
CCI? Look, if they couldn’t afford to keep their fucking house, how do you have the nerve to suggest they pay money they don’t have to join CCI so they “have a voice” in terms of lobbying? And if they don’t sign right up for your program you simply kick them to the curb and call them troublemakers and I’ve even heard this term, “agents provocateur”. Seriously? If someone isn’t down with your antiquated, out of touch organizing methods, they’re an “agent provocateur”? Sorry, but I’m not signing up for your “Rules for Radicals” reading group so we can “all be on the same page”. Yep, I know Joe Fagan spent two whole months in Chicago one time and learned all he needed to know to be a serious community organizer. Two months. That’s actually his entire resume. He spent two months in Chicago learning community organizing.
Well, this is exactly the same kind of shit CCI did in 1980, 1982, and again in 1984 with the Farm Crisis. Turned the misfortune of others into a
fundraising drive. And the elections turned out so well that, what the hell, thanks in part to you, we get a second go round of good ol’ Terry Bransted.
And embarrassingly enough, New Hampshire outshone us in terms of sending the message that Mr. Obama needs to start listening hard, thanks in part to you CCI, getting your people out to see that no one deviate from the party line.
iowanbybirth Wed 11 Jan 5:54 AM