The NH primary vote totals

[mercuryblues]

Democrats

2016: 253,062

2020:293,550


Republicans

2016: 285,916 with 100,735 voting for trump.

2020: 150,757 with 128,954 voting for trump.

NH has semi-open primaries. Democrats & Republicans vote in their party, and Independents can vote in either primary.

[George II]

1. It's interesting to note that total turnout last night was way down from 2016. Even with....

...the "record" turnout for Democrats, I wonder how much of that was crossover votes since republicans had nothing really to vote for.

[squirecam]

2. Very little actually.

The exit polls showed no repub ratting going on.

[George II]

3. But if they're really consciously screwing with us they wouldn't have told the exit pollsters.

[squirecam]

11. The share of democrats to independent

Was similar to 2016.

Had they been screwing with the primary, the vote share would have been larger.

And the % were very close to the actual results.

[kurtcagle]

4. Very interesting

A drop of 42% on the GOP side. That has to have the national GOP heads very nervous. It's another data point that confirms my suspicion that the GOP is shrinking dramatically, though the ones that are left are almost all pro-Trump.

[bearsfootball516]

5. Also wasn't a competitive primary on the Republican side.

[OliverQ]

12. It's more so that only Trump could win that primary so

most people probably didn't bother voting.

[Dem2]

6. 296,622

With ~100% reporting.

https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20200211-new-hampshire/

[denem]

7. Sanders 2016: 152,193 ; Sanders 2020: 76,324

[Indepatriot]

8. 2016: 2 candidates, 2020: 8 candidates. 2020 winner: Sanders

[George II]

9. 2016 Sanders +20%, 2020 Sanders +1.5%

[NurseJackie]

10. When a NH "Independent" chooses to vote in the Democratic primary...

When a NH "Independent" chooses to vote in the Democratic primary... does that mean that they are now declared-as, or registered-as a Democrat?

Or they allowed to continue to flatter themselves as being "intellectually superior thinkers" since they have no loyalty or allegiance to any party in particular?

[Dem2]

13. Undeclared voters become registered to the party of the ballot they chose in a primary

One has to re-register as "undeclared" after voting, as I did yesterday.

[NurseJackie]

14. Ah... so people can "game the system". Hardly seems fair.

Thanks for the clarification.

[krissey]

16. Right.

[Dem2]

17. It didn't happen this time so much, but it can

In 2000 I selected a Republican ballot and voted for McCain in an attempt stop that idiot Bush. We succeeded in NH, but he still won, and thus DU was born to fight that ignoramus!

I've been undeclared since I was old enough to vote. Fully 43% of NH voters are. Never really think about it though.

[robbedvoter]

15. they have same day registration, right? So a Trumpie can become a Democrat

or an independent right before voting and nobody would know, right? Which is why The Unity Commission insisted on open primaries and why we see stories like this one https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/upstate-gop-leaders-plotting-to-impact-sc-democratic-primary-by/article_f1e7abd2-4788-11ea-aa9f-33a1d262994c.html

[Dem2]

18. Yes, same day registration

It's unlikely a hardcore Republican would be unregistered and 1st time voters are more often younger and more liberal, but it could happen I suppose.