CNN and other news organizations are now projecting that New Hampshire voters have clearly made their verdict known — and it’s not a squeeker. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic primary and showman Donald Trump has won the Republican primary.
The Huffington Post has Sanders winning 59.9% of the vote and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton winning 38.5% of the vote. On the Republican side, Trump is at 35.3%, Ohio Gov. John Kasich 15.9%, Texas Sen Ted Cruz 11.6%, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush 11.1% and — in another sign of how his ABC News debate performance decimated his candidacy — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 10.1%.

Here’s a round up of news stories, blog reaction, Tweets and videos of key speeches. Note that articles and posts are excerpted. Go to the links to read the originals in full.

The Washington Post:

Sen. Bernie Sanders and billionaire Donald Trump have been projected as the winners of the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries in New Hampshire – a remarkable victory for two outsiders who tapped into voter anger at the two parties’ establishments, each promising massive government actions to provide working people with an economic boost.

In very early returns, the three Republicans running behind Trump were Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), who won the Iowa caucuses last week. Behind all of them was Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), who had been seen as the strongest challenger to Trump until a disastrous debate performance on Saturday, in which New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie attacked Rubio and the senator responded by repeating the same talking point over and over.

But if Christie’s attack had hurt Rubio, it didn’t seem to have helped Christie himself: Christie was running behind Rubio in the early returns, last among the four “establishment” candidates who’d each been trying to consolidate the party’s leaders for a challenge to Trump.

In the Democratic race, Sanders was projected as the winner over former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who had been seen as her party’s prohibitive favorite a year ago.

Sanders was a self-identified “democratic socialist,” little known outside Washington and his home state of Vermont. But he built a massive movement with rousing attacks on the power of Wall Street, and a promise of a “political revolution” that would provide universal, government-run health insurance and free public-college tuition.

Sanders was also helped by Clinton’s struggles to explain why she’d used a private email server to handle government business while she was secretary of state, a scandal that has hung over her candidacy for months.

Clinton’s defeat in New Hampshire was so resounding – and so long in coming – that Clinton’s campaign conceded immediately when the polls closed at 8 p.m.

The New York Times:

Donald J. Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont rocked the American political establishment on Tuesday night, harnessing working-class fury to surge to commanding victories in a New Hampshire primary that drew energetic turnout across the state.

Mr. Trump, the wealthy businessman whose blunt language and outsider image has electrified many Republicans and horrified others, benefited from an unusually large field of candidates that split the vote among traditional politicians like Gov. John Kasich of Ohio and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.

But Mr. Trump also tapped into a deep well of anxiety among Republicans and independents in New Hampshire, according to exit polling data, and he ran strongest among voters who were worried about illegal immigrants, incipient economic turmoil and the threat of a terrorist attack in the United States.

The win for Mr. Sanders amounted to a powerful and painful rejection of Hillary Clinton, who has deep history with New Hampshire voters and offered policy ideas that seemed to reflect the flinty, moderate politics of the state. But Mr. Sanders, who has proposed an emphatically liberal agenda to raise taxes and impose regulations on Wall Street, drew support from a wide cross-section of voters who trust him more to address income inequality and expand the health care system.

Mrs. Clinton, who won the primary here in 2008, planned to huddle with her advisers on Wednesday to discuss possible changes in political strategy and additions of staff members, according to Democrats close to the Clintons. She also plans to discuss whether to mount new lines of attack against Mr. Sanders on Thursday night at their next debate.

While Mr. Trump has led in New Hampshire polls since July, and Mr. Sanders has been ahead for the last month, the wave of support for both men was nonetheless stunning to leaders of both parties who believed that in the end, voters would embrace more experienced candidates like Mrs. Clinton or one of the Republican governors in the race. Yet the two men won significant support from voters who felt betrayed by their respective parties and were dissatisfied or angry with the federal government.

By winning so handily, the brash New Yorker and the blunt Vermonter asserted themselves as political forces that their parties and their opponents must quickly reckon with.

The LA Times divides the election results into two stories. The LA Times on the Republican race:

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump made political history Tuesday, winning the New Hampshire Republican primary with an unconventional brew of celebrity, voter anger and disdain for the traditional rules of politics.

The fight for second place appeared to be a close race among Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

A roar of cheers erupted at Trump’s election night party when CNN projected him the winner. The Associated Press and TV networks also projected a Trump victory based on exit polls and early returns.

The announcement on flat-screen television monitors placed around the banquet hall came immediately after the final polls closed at 8 p.m.

Over and over, the crowd of hundreds chanted, “Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump!”

The fight for second and third place is crucial to the nominating contest. Several candidates fought to show they are the top alternative to Trump, who leads in national GOP polls for his attacks on the Democratic and Republican establishments.
“The silent majority is very angry,” said Donna Horvit, 58, a retired food business owner who lives in Londonderry. Voters are “looking for a refreshing non-politician politician, if you know what I mean.

The Los Angeles Times on the Democratic race:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign conceded defeat in the New Hampshire primary as Sen. Bernie Sanders jumped out to a big lead in early returns here.

Exit poll data showed Democratic voters here overwhelmingly sharing Sanders’ views.

In a memo distributed to reporters, Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, said the campaigns were “splitting the first two contests,” after her narrow victory in Iowa.

Surveys of voters at polling places, conducted for the television networks and the Associated Press, revealed that those who voted in the Democratic primary leaned heavily toward Sanders. His support was strongest among young voters; some 8 in 10 of those under 30 voted for him, the preliminary exit poll data indicated. Clinton won the senior vote, but by a much slimmer margin.

The exit poll did offer some comfort for Clinton: Majorities of Democratic primary voters would be happy with either candidate as their nominee. About 8 in 10 said they would be happy with Sanders and roughly two-thirds would be happy with Clinton.

Political independents made up about 40% of the New Hampshire electorate, according to the exit poll. In many other primary states, independents can’t participate as easily as they can here.
While the findings may give Clinton backers some confidence about the future, the exit poll offered little doubt that Tuesday’s electorate belonged to Sanders.

Voters here were clearly more liberal even than those who turned out last week in Iowa.

For example, New Hampshire Democratic primary voters divided about evenly on the question of whether the next president should continue Barack Obama’s policies or adopt more liberal ones. In Iowa a majority favored continuity.

The Huffington Post headlined its story on Trumps win “A Racist, Sexist Demagogue Just Won The New Hampshire Primary
Seriously.” Some parts of it:

New Hampshire Republican primary voters on Tuesday made official their choice for president of the United States: real estate mogul and reality television star Donald J. Trump.

The businessman’s resounding victory amid a crowded field of more experienced and accomplished candidates is a stunning turn of events for a party that vowed just four years ago to be more inclusive to minorities after failing to unseat President Barack Obama in the bitter 2012 election. What the GOP got instead is a xenophobic demagogue who’s insulted pretty much everyone and even earned the endorsement of white supremacists. Trump’s victory in New Hampshire likely points to a drawn-out slog between Trump and at least one of his rivals as they battle to secure enough delegates in hopes of winning their party’s nomination this summer.

Trump defeated a crop of experienced candidates Tuesday, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, all of whom seemed more interested in fighting each other than taking on the longtime leader of the polls in the Granite State. Trump also fended off two well-spoken conservative senators — Marco Rubio of Florida, who’d surged in the days before the primary, and Ted Cruz of Texas, who won the Iowa caucuses last week.

The message from New Hampshire was clear: Voters fed up with Democrats and Republicans alike desire a politically incorrect outsider, one not beholden to special interests or rich donors, one who can actually break the perpetual gridlock in Washington.

Trump declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination in June following weeks of mockery in the press, with plenty of skeptical commentators noting that he’d been making similar noises about running for president for years. When he finally announced his bid, many pundits and party officials alike viewed Trump’s candidacy as essentially a comic spectacle.

But in time, the celebrity entertainer proved everyone wrong.

Trump rocketed to the top of the national polls with his populist message to “make America great again” by building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and strong-arming the rest of the world into more favorable economic policy. (He still hasn’t offered a lot of specifics about how he would do any of this, usually just pointing to his reputation as a macho billionaire dealmaker whenever the question comes up.)

Before long, Trump was dominating news cycles using a media strategy he described decades before his presidential run, in his 1987 book The Art of the Deal. The candidate essentially sucked the air out of rival campaigns by regularly dishing out controversy — lobbing attacks against war heroes, racial groups, women, news anchors and entire religions. With each new crude display, the press gave Trump more and more exposure, making it ever more difficult for his rivals to make their own platforms known.

It would take too long to list every instance from the past year when Trump showed contempt for other human beings, but some highlights come to mind.

The Daily Beast:

As soon as polls closed Tuesday evening, multiple news outlets called the New Hampshire presidential primaries for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and Republican candidate Donald Trump, two outsiders who have run campaigns that belie political conventions in a number of ways.
Both candidates went into the first-in-the-nation primary as the heavy favorites, with polling averages showing wide leads for them in their respective races; and they came out victorious without much of a fight.
With less than a quarter of the state’s votes reported at 8:45 p.m. ET, projections showed Sanders and Trump with commanding double-digit leads over their party rivals. In the Republican race, the secondary narrative becomes whether John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz will take second place, each fighting it out with low-teens percentages of the vote.
Trump’s victory comes on the heels of a surprising loss to Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucuses—a defeat which many saw as a sign of the reality TV star’s impending political decline. By winning the Granite State, Trump will head into the South Carolina primary (Feb. 20) with renewed confidence and a RealClear average polling lead of 16.3 percent. The Donald’s victory in the Northeastern state comes as a result of appealing to New Hampshire’s business-minded conservative populace, which is less concerned with the social conservatism that propelled Cruz to a Hawkeye State victory last week.
Marco Rubio, a candidate that many thought could eventually galvanize support and occupy some sort of “establishment” lane, is barely passing the 10 percent line after suffering a bruising beatdown by Chris Christie in the most recent debate….

…Sanders’s win over frontrunner Hillary Clinton gives the self-described “democratic socialist” some momentum headed into next week’s Southern primary. However, he faces a tough road ahead as he is looking at an average 13-percent deficit nationwide against the former secretary of state.
“We had no campaign organization, we had no money, and we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the United States of America,” Sanders told an energized crowd at his victory party. “Because of a huge voter turnout—and I say huge—we won because we harnessed the energy and the excitement that the Democratic Party will need to succeed in November.”

The Atlantic:

African American voters are the key to Hillary Clinton’s nomination bid, which may be why she twice referenced the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in her concession speech. Conventional wisdom suggests that Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist who defeated Clinton in New Hampshire, can’t make inroads among blacks and other minorities.

I’m not so sure. Although middle-aged and elderly voters recall Bill Clinton’s presidency and are old enough to appreciate Hillary Clinton’s record, millennial minorities weren’t old enough to vote when the Clintons left the White House.

The exit poll tonight shows Sanders roughly splitting non-white voters in New Hampshire with Clinton, 49 to 50 percent. I’ll be closely watching future election results to see how Clinton and Sanders compete for young minority voters. Continued inroads by Sanders into these voting blocs would cause Clinton problems.

Ron Fornier adds this on the same page:

Can Donald Trump be stopped? Of course, he can—but his path to the Republican nomination gets easier if the race for second place in New Hampshire remains jumbled.

The GOP’s anti-Trump crowd needs to quickly coalesce around an establishment candidate—Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Ohio Governor John Kasich, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Rather than ganging up against Trump and conservative-darling Ted Cruz, the establishment candidates have chosen to attack each other. Nothing would make Trump happier after New Hampshire than a repeat of that mistake.

The New Republic’s Brian Beutler:

Trump’s victory, and the magnitude of his victory, is a political cataclysm for the Republican Party. When it became clear that Trump would win, the GOP establishment’s parting hope was that Trump’s margin would thin, and he’d once again face a storyline about his inability to meet expectations. That he’d lose by winning. Instead he more than doubled the support of the second-place finisher John Kasich. This gives Trump an early delegate lead going into nominating contests in South Carolina and Nevada, where he also enjoys commanding advantages in public polls.

Trump’s path to victory just expanded back to its pre-Iowa thickness. And the biggest contributing factor to Trump’s resurgence—the second biggest story out of New Hampshire—is the Republican Party leadership’s near-total lack of control over its candidate pool. Had Senator Marco Rubio, rather than Kasich, finished second in New Hampshire—had he managed to capitalize on his third-place showing in Iowa—the story tonight would be dramatically different.

Instead, everything that’s happened since last Monday has served as a reminder that the Republican establishment is hanging its fortunes on extremely thin reeds.

We can trace the disarray within the Republican establishment to multiple origins—to Jeb Bush’s early stumbles and his toxic association with his brother’s failed presidency; to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which has made it possible for dark-horse candidates to sustain candidacies long past their natural expiration dates; to the Republican Party’s opportunistic appeals to reactionary sentiment for short-term political gain. These determinants have stripped Republicans of the tools they need to make strategically sound institutional decisions. The imperative to nominate anyone but Trump or Cruz has driven Republicans to lend immense significance to dubious indications of electability.

The New Republic’s Elizabeth Bruenig:

Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s young female vote by a landslide. In the contest between Sanders and Hillary Clinton, the votes of young women have become a key area of contention, with theories proliferating as to why they seem to strongly prefer Sanders. Tonight, New Hampshire’s young women voters confirmed the trend.

National Review’s The Corner has this headline: “Trump, Sanders, and Kasich Do Well. Thanks a Lot, New Hampshire.” A bit of the article:

Could this night have gone worse for Donald Trump’s foes? Sure, he could have won with 90 percent or something. But this was about as bad a result as they could reasonably fear, and about as good a result as Trump and his fans could want. Trump’s first-place finish was easy to predict, and in line with most of the polling. In fact, the traditional New Hampshire polling surprise this year was… that the actual results didn’t offer much of a surprise. It always looked like a tightly-packed crowd of candidates from second to sixth place, and the order of finish was pretty ideal for Trump. It’s him against the crowd, and his chunk of the base – even if it’s just a new generation of Pat Buchanan’s share of the vote – will always outpace his rivals, as long as there’s a bunch of them. John Kasich’s relentless focus on New Hampshire paid off….
…Wait, it gets worse. As the votes get tabulated, keep an eye on how many votes Sanders got compared to the Republican candidates. Everyone expected a Sanders win, but the Socialist is rolling to a big win tonight. This is the “Live Free or Die” state? Finally, Hillary Clinton has generated a razor-thin win in the Iowa caucuses and a blowout loss in a New Hampshire with record turnout, when facing Sanders, far from a whirling dervish of raw political charisma. She’s in terrible shape; Democrats who don’t want to see a Sanders nomination have good reason to panic tonight.

The Guardian in Great Britain:

Bernie Sanders swept to a massive victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday in a stunning win over Hillary Clinton that will send shockwaves through her campaign and give the Vermont senator much needed momentum as he heads for tougher states further south.

Voters hungry for what Sanders calls “political revolution” turned out in large numbers to vote for him, according to projections from the Associated Press.

Clinton called Sanders about 8.15pm local time to congratulate him.

The former secretary of state’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, said the campaigns were “splitting the first two contests” after her extremely narrow victory in Iowa, calling Sanders’s victory in New Hampshire “an outcome we’ve long anticipated”.

“The nomination will very likely be won in March, not February, and we believe that Hillary Clinton is well positioned to build a strong – potentially insurmountable – delegate lead next month,” he wrote in a memo to reporters, which focused in large part on Clinton’s strength among African American and Hispanic voters. “They know her, trust her and are excited about her candidacy,” Mook said.

He added: “Senator Sanders has unarguably tapped into real feelings of anger and frustration among voters. But what Hillary gets – and what she’s been fighting for her whole life – is the need to break down all the barriers that hold Americans back from living up to their own God-given potential, including systemic racism and discrimination.”

Though his win had been expected for several weeks, the scale of the defeat for Clinton will raise questions about her appeal among younger voters and women, especially after the surprisingly competitive Iowa caucuses saw her winning that state last week by less than 0.3 percentage points.

On Monday, campaign chairman John Podesta was forced to deny reports that Clinton was planning a shake-up of senior staff to try to refine her message to voters as the primary campaign swings to South Carolina and Nevada.

But while Clinton is likely to view the loss as a temporary setback, Sanders is hoping it can give him momentum to overcome doubts among many Democrats about his long-term viability – both as the party’s nominee and as a presidential candidate with enough support to take on a Republican rival in November’s general election.

Reuters’ blog wonders if Bernie Sanders is the Ronald Reagan of 2016:

Is Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) electable? As Sanders has surged in the polls, supporters of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are issuing increasingly dire warnings about his general election prospects. On websites like Vox, many political scientists agree: He can’t win. Millions of dollars in Republican ads, they insist, will paint him a socialist or a red. Americans aren’t about to elect a Jewish socialist who still hasn’t lost his Brooklyn accent.

It will be a debacle, critics predict, like Democratic Senator George McGovern’s crushing 1972 loss, when the Democrats lost 48 states, or Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, buried by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s stunning landslide in 1964. It will set progressives back for decades.

Ironically, as Sanders rises in the polls and does better than expected, the alarms grow in volume and intensity. It verges on oxymoronic for Clinton and the party establishment to scorn as unelectable a candidate who is beating her at the ballot box.

Insurgent candidates face forbidding odds — but they don’t always lose. In 1980, establishment Republicans issued much the same warnings about former California Governor Ronald Reagan, asserting he would be Goldwater redux. Moderate Republican John Anderson went so far as to mount a third party bid against him.

Reagan not only won, he led a re-alignment election. Republicans took control of the Senate, and launched, in Barack Obama’s words, a transformative presidency that marked the end of the New Deal coalition and the beginning of the conservative era. (In 1984, Walter Mondale lost 49 states to incumbent President Reagan).

President Richard M. Nixon and then Reagan built the conservative Republican majority coalition by splitting off so-called Reagan Democrats — largely white, disproportionately Southern, working-class men — from the Democratic Party. The GOP attracted these voters with talk of God, guns and skillful use of race-baiting politics, while waging a culture war against gays and women.

Sanders similarly may have the potential to expand the Democratic majority coalition by attracting blue-collar, white male voters back into the Democratic Party.
David Corn in Mother Jones looks at how Trump and Sanders pulled it off:

In New Hampshire, an angry populist who calls for a revolution and assails the Washington establishment, special-interest lobbyists, big-money politics, and rapacious corporations won an election in a historic move that could shake up and remake American politics.

And Bernie Sanders did, too.

Donald Trump triumphed in the GOP primary bagging about a third of the vote. He lapped the rest of the pack, while John Kasich placed second with about 16 percent, and Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio clumped together at about 11 percent. Trump’s conquest of the GOP came after the xenophobic tycoon reality-show star honed his populist message in a manner that echoed Sanders’ approach. Sanders, the democratic socialist who only recently identified as a Democrat, bested Hillary Clinton, the poster child for the Democratic establishment, by about 18 points. This was a commanding showing for Sanders, after the Clinton campaign tried mightily—with Bill Clinton deriding Sanders’ supporters—to close the gap to single digits. Sanders achieved this win by sticking to his trademark lines: Enough is enough, the banks have to be broken up, the billionaires cabal must be busted so it cannot buy elections, and a “revolution” is needed to smash corporate power, tax “Wall Street speculation,” and deliver universal health care, a living wage, and tuition-free college to the citizenry. He roused young voters and apparently fared well among white working-class men, who presumably share Sanders’ fury regarding what he calls a “rigged economy” that generates income inequality. (These blue-collar voters backed Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary.)

Sanders, who also promoted his standard progressive stances on gay rights, abortion, and climate change, demonstrated the powerful resonance of a change-the-system message in a state that once was Clinton-friendly territory. Though the Clinton camp believes the next primary in South Carolina, with the state’s large population of African Americans, affords her the chance to halt Bernie-mentum, she and her crew ought to be damn nervous that a 74-year-old self-proclaimed socialist has figured out better than she how to tap into the hopes and frustrations of an array of Democratic voters. (Look at the depth of the Feel the Bern passion Sanders inspired at this rally for young voters the day before the election.)

Sanders clobbered Clinton by consistently presenting a coherent indictment of modern-day power and economics. And Trump has turned the Republican Party inside out with a similar assault. He entered his last New Hampshire rally—thousands of people at the Verizon arena in Manchester on a snowy night—with the speakers blaring “Revolution,” the John Lennon-written Beatles song. (Talk about a body spinning in the grave.) And Trump pumped up the populism in his final pitch to Granite Staters.

Slate:

CNN just called it: Donald Trump has won New Hampshire’s 2016 Republican presidential primary. This is not a drill. I repeat: This is not a drill.

We’ll have to wait until all the votes are tallied to see whether this is a disaster for the Republican Party or just a massive debacle. But regardless of how the final standings shake out for the establishment-backed foursome of Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, and Chris Christie, the big story leaving New Hampshire will be Trump. He just won a presidential nominating contest run by one of the two major political parties in the United States—an outcome that seemed unthinkable this past summer when many political observers didn’t expect his campaign to last into the fall.

The victory will legitimize Trump’s candidacy in ways that his polling performances and crowd sizes have been unable to. He just bested the best the Republican Party has to offer in a state where his establishment rivals have no excuses, given primary voters there are considerably more moderate than Iowa’s GOP caucus-goers. Trump still has his work cut out for him in future contests, but it’s now impossible to dismiss him as a paper tiger, as many of his rivals were eager to do after he failed to win the Iowa caucus last week.

Think Progress announced Trump won and offered this post on what his presidency would look like.

The conservative blog Red State:

New Hampshire shows us just how big a myth electability really is. Electability is a fairy tale we tell ourselves when we support one good candidate over another. It is a lie. We know it’s a lie because we believe in electability when we win, and when we lose it’s clearly because the electorate is filled with dumb people doing dumb things and pulling the lever for insanity.

John McCain was electable once. Mitt Romney was, too. Jeb Bush is considered electable. John Kasich is seen by folks like the New York Times as the most electable. If electability were real, however, then the top four (in no certain order) would be Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Chris Christie, and Marco Rubio. We didn’t get anywhere close to that. What we got was confirmation that the loudest voices do make a difference. That’s what puts Trump at a very, very big first place and keeps Ted Cruz in the top three.

If electability where a real thing, Bernie Sanders would be a blip on the radar, and Hillary Clinton would have beaten Martin O’Malley 57-42 (Sanders would have gotten one percent – and that’s with being a neighboring state’s senator).

Electability is a lie, pure and simple. Stop telling yourselves that’s what makes your guy better, and start paying attention to what voters are actually saying.

Daeros’ diary on Daily Kos:

His margin of victory over hillary is huge. and as to all you old democratic voters who are aging and are Hillary supporters for WHATEVER reason and have tried to say millenials are unreliable voters you’re wrong. We CAN be counted on t o show up even in midterms. Just not for Fiscally conservative democrats. We’d rather A Republican than fiscally conservative democrats because at least it leaves the Seat available to be captured by a Fiscally liberal Democrat whenever they do come along. If you are a Fiscally conservative democrat we won’t lift a finger to help you and will leave you to be devoured by the rabid animals.

we won’t carry your water.

the narrative of 2010 and 2014 is not that millenials can’t be counted on to show up. It’s that if Democrats Nominate fiscal conservatives in Midterms they will get their asses handed to thme.

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