Nate Silver: who supports Tulsi Gabbard In New Hampshire

[Julian Englis]

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Lest you make the mistake that Tulsi Gabbard's support is coming from the left, almost all of her support in the Q-Pac poll of NH is from voters who describe themselves as conservative or moderate. And almost all from indePendents

[hlthe2b]

1. "almost all of her support in Q-Pac poll of NH is from voters who describe themselves conservative

or moderate. And almost all from independents and not Democrats."


I'm shocked I tell you! Shocked!

[Faux pas]

2. I'm

Not surprised at all.

[empedocles]

3. Remember, the 1968 NH primary, in which 'Clean Gene McCarthy' poured all out assets into

NH as a Viet Nam protest, and achieved an amazingly strong showing against the sitting President LBJ, who soon dropped out of the Presidential contests.

Post-election, post- mortem, revealed that a decisive number of NH voters, thought they were voting for Joe [nee 'tailgunner joe' McCarthy, a vicious, drunken, anti-commie from the 1950's].

[These 'moves' marked the end of the FDR coalition, as the various factions and their candidates - enabled loser Nixon, to win the WH].

'Pol'tics'

[Gothmog]

4. NH is open primary state and Republicans/Indies can vote in Democratic primary

[Cha]

5. Open primaries are ridiculous..

why should we let repbs choose our Dem candidate.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. +1