Just hours to go, New Hampshire primary voters still can't make up their minds

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

LEBANON, N.H. — They’ve been pummeled by millions of dollars in TV ads, had repeated chances to see the major candidates up close, sometimes in neighbors’ living rooms, and they’ve watched debates play out on television. Now, they’re about to cast ballots — but for whom?

“I don’t know yet,” said Sarah Glass, a high school teacher from Hanover, N.H. “I’m super-undecided.”

Standing a few feet away, in a Lebanon high school gymnasium where Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was due to speak, Doreen Somers of Grantham acknowledged similar indecision.

“It’s tough. It’s exciting. But it’s tough.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/just-hours-to-go-new-hampshire-primary-voters-still-cant-make-up-their-minds/ar-BBZRff2?li=BBnb7Kz

[Iliyah]

1. Insane man is there sucking up . . .

precious oxygen spewing crap, choose the one D that you think can defeat that crazy man and bring this country back from the brink.

[Zolorp]

2. New Hampshire seems to go throough this about every four years.

Half the voters making up their minds at the last moment.

It can throw wrenches into campaigns.

[emmaverybo]

3. It wouldn't if we didn't let the results in two little white states have the power to distort our

view of candidates’ relative strengths on a more global basis. We cooperate with media in this. Now the perception that Bloomberg will save us grows, when he is not necessarily the best candidate or most qualified to run our country.

The candidates did not change overnight. Neither of these states should have altered the course of their campaigns.

[Zolorp]

5. Yes, but small states are required to give upstart campaigns a shot.

D.C. would be the ideal first in the nation, IMO. Put all the candidates at the center of it all, then move out from there.

Let D.C. itself start the winnowing process.

[emmaverybo]

7. We should do same as GE and hold all primaries on the same day. Had we done that, Iowa

caucus along with 54 more states on one date, we’d have a nominee. It would be Biden.

Iowa has had a distorting effect on the entire race, now determining the trajectory of campaigns— Biden is tarnished with the loser label, Buttigieg elevated way beyond his punching weight, Bernie given a momentum he will never see again if he gets to the GE, overcoming Warren who’d have a better GE chance, and a billionaire seen as a potential savior, his stock rising because Biden’s stock plummeted overnight.

MSM is dancing a jig along with Trump.

[Zolorp]

8. Then only billionaires can win.

Way too expensive to run a primary like a GE. Bloomberg would win this one hands down and only those willing to shell out $1 billion or are capable of raising it in a primary time frame (fat chance) can win.

[emmaverybo]

10. O.K. Thanks for enlightening me.

[Zolorp]

13. That was the entire purpose in going with Iowa and New Hampshire in the first place

For example, if it was an all in one single day primary, Obama would have never stood a chance in 2008.

The thing is, that current system is a perfect example of systemic racism due to the lack of diversity in those first two states.

That's the piece that needs to be corrected.

That's why I say, take the patriotic stance and let DC decide first, then move on to another small state.

[emmaverybo]

15. Yes. I see now. Good idea. Yes, example of systemic racism. And how we regard the results and

make them so important when we should not let these places be bellwethers, read them as some
expression of “the people’s political will.” Not. Expression of some white folks in a small white state. And so will NH be.

[TwilightZone]

6. "Neither of these states should have altered the course of their campaigns."

I didn't think they would this cycle, but something has clearly changed.

Sanders' disingenuous claim that he "won" Iowa seems to have generated some momentum. Funny that Pete's actual win doesn't appear to have had as much impact, though it has generated a bump, it seems.

[emmaverybo]

9. That candidates' PR could change anything is surprising and disappointing. None of them should

have given premature victory speeches. But then Iowa and N.H. should not have gone first.

Cascading series of fateful events like a cytokine storm is at work. All due to our process, which I think is a terribly flawed one. And premature panic.

Bloomberg should not have been able to run.

[judeling]

11. Ahh what polls where you looking at?

Post Iowa pre-debate Bernie stayed flat and Pete had a 12 point bump in NH.
Post Debate Bernie had a slight bump, Pete a bit of a backtrack and Klobuchar something in the order of a 6-8 point surge.

[TwilightZone]

14. Polls

I'm looking at NH averages. Big bump for Sanders the past two days and up five points in four days, with Biden down about six points in the past five days. And, yes, about a four-point bump (average) for Amy.

It certainly seems attributable to post-Iowa, but they're also only averaging the three most-current polls. If one is an outlier, the average would be skewed a bit. Pretty much impossible to tell.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nh/new_hampshire_democratic_presidential_primary-6276.html#polls

[TwilightZone]

4. One of the polls noted that 49% were either undecided or not fully committed to a candidate.

That was a couple days ago, but the numbers are still kind of remarkable.

[aikoaiko]

12. Anything can happen.