+1.
Pat Buchanan & Paul Tsongas won there.
NH is a blue state. Romney, who claimed some sort of home-field advantage there, lost NH to the Marxist in 2012. Put a fork in NH — the Massachussetts locusts have arrived.
I’d like to see “Primary Election Day” just like the General Election. Get it all over with in 1 day. Everyone on the ballot, the nominees emerge. Why not? In, NJ where I live, this process is just a fun hobby since by the time we hold our primary, the nominees will basically be decided. It’s almost a waste of state money to do it at that point.
Kasich is exactly as irrelevant today as he was yesterday. He's a non factor heading into SC.
Kasich basically moved to New Hampshire along with Christie. No surprise that he got more votes than he should have.
Cruz basically moved to Iowa. I he didn’t win there it would have been Yuge.
The fact that Donald Trump even won shows that New Hampshire needs to be demoted.
Seriously, any state where Ted Cruz doesn’t win should have its votes taken away.
How can we get this silly primary stuff fixed?
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They don’t want it fixed. That’s how they get their RINO’s to excel. The fix is in.
You have to remember that anyone, Republican, Independent, and even Democrat registered voters can vote in the Republican primaries in New Hampshire.
Many many years ago it wasnt like this. With the large influx of massholes, NYers etc over the years the demographic has changed for the worse. Right now conservatives are doing OK and have the legislature but it seems the electorate loves their commie executive. The only thing keeping her in check the executive council. A mixed bag but livable. Still, it could be loads better but I think the trend isnt torward the positive.
Kasich getting 15% really doesn’t surprise me. While I wouldn’t vote for him, he has a better resume than Bush, Christie or most of the other candidates. He is a two term governor of a swing state. He was budget chairman in Congress during the Gingrich years and, at the time, was a budget hawk. If he didn’t take a sharp turn to the Left while he was governor, I’d probably vote for him. But something happened to him over the past decade to turn him into a “Jesus would want us to expand Welfare”, Huckabee-type Christian Socialist.
Thus the support for Kasich from the "Socialist' Republican wing in the state, which Kasich represents.
I’m an adopted Granite-Stater. I fled the People’s Republic of Mass 30 years ago but the bastards followed me. NH is lost.
Look at our Federal representation, Shaheen and Ayotte in the Senate and Kuster and Giunta in the House. Three of the four are a disgrace. We also have a Progressive Governor, Maggie Hassan.
It is much too easy to game the system here with same day registrations and an open primary where registered Independents can switch into either Party on the day of the vote, making it easy to wreak chaos and sabotage a true conservative. We always seem to end up with Democrat-lite instead of a true contrast with the chosen Progressive.
I’m all for stripping NH of our first in the nation status and giving to a conservative state for the good of the nation.
Iowa seemed to be a wonderful place a week ago.
But NH is now too goofy?
But I do agree that NEITHER state should be first.
Iowa needs to abolish the caucus, as well as any state that uses it, and there should be regional primaries with one big delegate state, and several smaller ones grouped together.
By the way, what ever happened to the Free State Project? Is this the result???
Perhaps he'll stay at 1% or so in SC.
The only way to get the nomination process fixed is to take over the Presidency and the party apparatus.
The Iowa caucus process should be eliminated and replaced by a primary. Leave Iowa in the position it is but if they don’t want to change the process move the first primary to another state. Have two primary states the second week one in the northeast and one in the south.
Have two more state primaries the third week in the west and SW.
Beginning in the fourth week have regional primaries.
Either make all primary states winner take all or proportional but do not allow both. Proportional allocation is done now by the establishment to dilute “enthusiastic” voting by a candidates or candidates following. Later they move to winner take all which favors an establishment candidate and takes interest out of the process for those candidates who do not believe they can be first place in a state.
Finally, allow only Republicans and independents to vote in the primaries with no change of party registration in the sixty days prior to the start of a primary. This stops a party with a selected candidate from having its voters switch over and support weaker candidates in the primary. Some states have open primaries where one just has to declare which party they are voting for on primary day. Some states all independent and party affiliated registered voters only and the rest party ID voters only.
Not perfect but a start. My view your views will vary.
having independents voting in a republican primary is where things are wrong.
if they were truly interested in the well being of their independence, run your own primary candidates.
gop is the stooopid party.
GO TED.