LIVE THREAD: NH Vote Results

February 9, 2016 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

Here's a LIVE THREAD for the NH Primary results this evening.

We will know soon enough and we can keep track it right here.

How quick will they call it? I expect between 7:30 and 8 PM the race will be called in NH tonight.

[gleeaikin]

Yeah, what on earth is the delay on the last 34 precincts. Was the same 1 1/2 hours ago.

[gleeaikin]

Obama had a better ground game in his race with Hillary. Cruz had a better ground game in Iowa than Trump. It looks like Hillary has learned. Trump will need to also.

[Radix]

Despite all the Florida hype back in 2000, it was New Hampshire which carried ‘W.’

Check out the EC vote and see that if Gore took N.H. then Florida was immaterial.

N.H. has not been so good in more recent EC votes, but that year it was everything.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks glee’.

[rodguy911]

Exactly the same people that claim Trump has a threshold where he can’t get any more votes said that when he had 20%,25%,30% 35% and so on.They will keep saying it after he wins the election as well.
Trump is a work in progress and is just beginning to accelerate. He’s what the country has needed for two decades.

[rodguy911]

Cruz is a very slick lawyer.He will say anything he needs to say in that rev.cruz voice a lot like minister Glen Beck and then lie about it later.They both have a lot in common,huge con men.

[rodguy911]

Best post of the thread so far.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

What a great night. Trump winning big and Hillary losing big.

Hope that same thing will be said in November!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Ugh her voice could sterilize a bull at 50 yards.

Reading over the thread from last night and I came upon your post. You owe me a keyboard!

[Theodore R.]

Look how many votes the two combined Democrats got: it shows NH is headed once more into the Democrat column, probably forever.

[stratboy]

I couldn’t find last Decembers ratings. I read an article that Dave Ramsey passed him and his rating we slipping? It seemed to make sense because when I listened to him, he used to brag about being in 3rd all the time and now he’s tied for fourth.

[catfish1957]

Yeah, what on earth is the delay on the last 34 precincts. Was the same 1 1/2 hours ago

Still about 95% . Says a lot about the competence of a voting system that can't count a few hundred thousand votes in 12 hours.

[Vermont Lt]

The system in NH used to be pretty good. They were 100% optical scanner back in 1990. It’s not an issue of counting paper ballots.

[butterdezillion]

Looks like they’ve had all night to manufacture votes. Doesn’t look good. How can it take this long?

[catfish1957]

The system in NH used to be pretty good. They were 100% optical scanner back in 1990. It’s not an issue of counting paper ballots

Hate to put the tin foll hat on, but leaving 10% on the table a day later might be pretty convenient for one party come November

[af_vet_1981]

The most recent totals I could find now after a preliminary check still only show about 80& of precincts reporting. With those totals, if they are valid, one might expect about 274K Democrat votes and 303K Republican. One would think that should be the headline story of the morning: Record Republican Turnout in New Hampshire Primary

Given the antiTrump bias of much of the media the headlines will not only include Bernie Sanders (who beat both Obama and Clinton totals from 2008), but also Kasich and Bush (they want to prop up an establishment candidate whenever they can).

Did anyone notice that Trump received more votes than Hillary ?

Trump's challenges are to unite the Republican voters at the same time he is bringing in new Republican voters.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Hannity’s numbers must be from the first 15 minutes, on Rush’s coattails. I shut him off right after Rush. Hannity is repeat, repeat, repeat and then repeat. Hardly ever gives a guest time to answer his questions or interrupts callers continuously.

[Cboldt]

They likely stopped at some point - went home, had a tea or warm milk, and went to bed. Not much reason to hurry things up, the field is pretty well set. The difference between 3rd and 4th is close enough that either place is "the same." The result is arguably a three-way tie for third.

The column on the far right is delegates.

      Trump, Donald John, Sr.             92,417  35.13%  11
      Kasich, John Richard                41,814  15.90%  3
      Cruz, Rafael Edward "Ted"           30,417  11.56%  2
      Bush, John Ellis "Jeb"              29,188  11.10%  2
      Rubio, Marco A.                     27,776  10.56%  2
      Christie, Christopher James "Chris" 19,812   7.53%
      Fiorina, Carleton Sneed "Carly"     10,967   4.17%
      Carson, Benjamin Solomon "Ben", Sr.  5,969   2.27%

[Jeff Head]

Now 93% in. Big turn out for NH. Only 2,600 vote difference between 3rd and 5th place out of almost 295,000 votes.

I'm glad Cruz took 3rd.

But Trump won BIG TIME here. By almost 20% in such a large field.

[txhurl]

Looks like the R turnout is about +25K over ‘12... not record-breaking as exit pollers initially said.