Could Trump Save Hillary in New Hampshire? A Primary Vote Scenario That Could Defy the Polls
In N.H., independent voters can vote in either primary — and Trump could snag some of the voters Sanders needs.I'm not really counting on this. But I am perfectly happy to be pleasantly surprised. It could happen.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/could-trump-save-hillary-new-hampshire-electoral-primary-scenario-could-defy-polls
Democratic partisans like her far more than independent voters do, and in a primary purged of as many unaffiliated voters as possible, Clinton has a shot at an upset, especially considering the fact that her opponent isn’t even a Democrat at all.
That’s because in the New Hampshire primary, voters who aren’t aligned with either the Democratic or Republican Party can still vote in either party primary. Independents make up 43 percent of all New Hampshire primary voters, a figure that dwarfs the percentage of registered Democrats (who make up 26 percent of the vote) or registered Republicans (who make 30 percent). And political operatives with long experience in New Hampshire politics say that the group tends to decide late not only whom to support, but which primary to participate in. And they tend, in the words of Tom Rath, a consigliere to a host of GOP presidential contenders trying to navigate New Hampshire, “to go where the action is.”
Sanders and Clinton may trade barbs over healthcare policy or whose plan to regulate the banks is more robust, but the real action is on the Republican side. It’s not just Trump and his Van Halen reunion tour-size crowds and carnival barker insults. It’s all of them who sound like they brought Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to a debate: Chris Christie calling Marco Rubio a boy in a bubble, Jeb Bush calling Ted Cruz a backbencher, Ted Cruz inveighing against the Washington cartel and John Kasich calling out the whole lot of them for calling out each other. Democrats are debating the meaning of what it means to be progressive; Republicans are talking about ISIS chopping off heads, religious liberty, killing babies and carpet-bombing the Middle East.
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I sincerely believe that Hillary will be within single digits - if she does not eke out a win. She has momentum going into the vote tomorrow, much as her opponent's supporters like to dismiss that.
NH (and IA) both receive disproportionate attention and always have. Every time it happens, we all realize this, but nothing ever changes.
What will be, will be - and we will all live to fight another day.
He didn't know whether to vote for Trump or BS. These are his choices. He ended the call by saying that it's time someone looked out for the white working class. Although he was a college student, he seemed very adamant that nobody's looking out for his particular demographic.
They don't seem to grasp that the system has always, from its inception, sought to ensure his success. Now that others like BLM, the Dreamers, Women, LGBT, etc. are stepping up to demand those same privileges, they're feeling slighted. 
White male privilege lives on.
Who is looking out for us? Huh?!
I'd be very happy if the knucklehead Bernie Bros go where their hearts lead....to Trump.
should scare the hell out of anyone claiming to be a reasonable, rational, thinking being. I sometimes get the feeling that these people would just as easily back Cliven Bundy, given their angst over the "changing demographics". I had a person/co-worker, whom I thought was a friend, who wouldn't vote for Obama's re-election because she felt he was the cause of the "all the racial stuff", and it "unsettled" her.
Trust me, there's a very disturbing flipside to the Donald Trump coin, and that's as much as I'll say about that. 
are correct that it works in her favor. 
