I was just looking at the New Hampshire vote totals — the ones that show whom voters want to be our next president.
The popular vote!
And with 100 percent of votes counted, Hillary came in third with 95,252 votes.
Beating Hillary to come in second was Donald Trump, front runner for the Republican nomination, with 100,406 votes. Trump’s margin over Clinton, who won the NH primary in 2008, was over 5,000 votes.
In fourth place was Republican John Kasich with 44,909 votes.
Next in line, coming in fifth, was Ted Cruz with 33,189.
And next...
Wait; this is too much like a mainstream news report. Maybe at this point we should mention that 151,584 people voted that Bernie Sanders should be our next President. That they see Sanders as the logical successor to President Barack Obama.
That Sanders trounced Trump by more than 50,000 votes, or roughly 50 percent.
That more people rallied to Sanders than to Trump and Kasich combined, showing that in New Hampshire, where people have had a chance to see the candidates up close and for months, that one candidate stood out.
Sanders,
He was New Hampshire’s first choice.
Trump was a distant second.
And Clinton was even father behind, although with the establishment boost, she keeps pace with delegates.
Now it’s on to South Carolina and Nevada, where we’ll see whether Iowa and New Hampshire are anomalies or bellwethers. Whether a coalition of young and old, black, white, Asian and Hispanic, funded by the many for the common good can march across the land.
Because Now is the time (and God, have we been waiting).