– Last-minute voters –
Everything was to play for in New Hampshire on Tuesday due to a high number of registered independents, who can choose to vote in either party, and the famous last-minute nature of voters here.
Exit polls conducted by CNN showed that nearly half of Republican voters did not make their final decision about whom to support until the last few days.
Trump has energized broad swaths of blue-collar Americans, angry about economic difficulties and frustrated at what they see as their country losing its global stature.
And the race could be upended yet again if former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg were to launch an independent bid. He told the Financial Times he was “looking at all options.”
On the Democratic front, Clinton failed to confound polls that for weeks predicted a large victory for her insurgent challenger Sanders, who is big on erasing economic inequality.
Clinton – bidding to be America’s first female president – won Iowa by a hair, and remains the overall favorite to win the Democratic nomination.
But Sanders’ strong performance shows his campaign, even though it faces an uphill battle, can give the former secretary of state a run for her money deep into election season.
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