Business As Usual Gets Spanked In New Hampshire

Business As Usual Gets Spanked In New Hampshire
A reason to smile

Business As Usual Gets Spanked In New Hampshire — Those OK with business as usual in Washington got a severe spanking in New Hampshire last night, Feb. 9.

In the Democrat presidential primary, socialist outsider Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont crushed Hillary Clinton 60 percent to 38 percent.

Yes Mrs. Clinton,  Bernie said “live free” and you died.  The whole house came down on your head. You could almost hear the little people singing “ding dong” as they danced and pointed the way to the Yellow Brick Road.

Sanders got 14 delegates to Mrs. Clinton’s nine.

Sure is a bummer to be out pandered.

On the Republican side, Donald Trump, who has never held a political office and has not even been a regular voter, easily won with 35 percent of the vote and 11 delegates. People really are that mad at the political class and they should be.

In second place, was John Kasich whose 16 percent of the vote got him three delegates. Kasich was a congressman for 22 years including six years as chairman of the House Budget Committee before declining to run for re-election in 2000. After stints as a Fox News commentator and as an investment banker, he re-entered politics in 2010 winning the Ohio gubernatorial election. He easily won re-election in 2014. His strong finish last night is being attributed to a strong debate performance.

Kasich is a native of Pennsylvania. If he should win the White House, it would the first time a native of the state held the presidency since the disgraceful James Buchanan in 1861.

Ted Cruz, who as gotten under the skin of just about every Washington insider in his first term as Texas senator, came in third with 12 percent of the vote giving him two delegates.

Getting under the skin of Washington insiders is a good thing.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush got 11 percent of the vote which also netted him two delegates in his hopefully Quixotic quest to continue the family dynasty.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio finished fourth with also about 11 percent of the vote but got zero delegates. He was followed by New York Gov.Chris Christie at 8 percent; businesswoman Carly Fiorina, exposure to whom the establishment media wants to minimize as she is a woman who could actually handle the job, at 4 percent; surgeon Ben Carson, at 2 percent; and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 1 percent despite dropping out of the race. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum got token votes despite also have dropped out.

Turnout was record-setting in the Republican race whereas it was down on the D side.

There is still a long way to go as 1,144 delegates are needed to win the GOP nomination and 2,382 are needed to lead the Democratic ticket.

Business As Usual Gets Spanked In New Hampshire

 

 

 

2 thoughts on “Business As Usual Gets Spanked In New Hampshire”

  1. I thought Rubio’s speech on TV at the end of the night was excellent.He manned up and blamed himself and his poor debate performance and not his staff.Plus:he had fire in his voice and his words.

    Pro life is a VERY important issue to me and he is the strongest pro life candidate.
    Check out his remarks on Chris Wallace’s show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcM44DCxNX4

    I think he is the only one that can beat HRC .Cruz is too sinister looking(I love his positions though)
    Trump has too many negatives for a national election.Plus his style is a big turnoff IMO

    I will vote R no matter who is the nominee,but Iwish poor JEB would take his money and go home .Poor baby

    1. Carly is very strong on pro life too. There are a few of the candidates I don’t particularly like but overall it is an excellent field. I’m going to refrain from bashing any of them as I think all could do the job without embarrassing the country and that includes Christie and Jeb.

      I agree with you about Cruz, great positions lousy charisma.

      Right now, I’m a Trump guy but it is a long way until April 26.

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