Apparently, O'Malley is still on the ballot in NH, and did get like .3% of the votes. So there you go.
On the GOP side, it looks like Trump has won (not really a surprise here). Kasich in second at the moment. Which is kind of a surprise from a national point of view, but not so much from a "he's literally spent every dollar of his campaign to win votes in NH" pov. It looks like Bush gained the most from Rubio's gaff at the last debate, and is coming in a strong third. So... no closer really to figuring things out on that side at all. I think the big story will be about how this has basically given Bush some life back, when it was looking like he was going to be out of it completely.
Kasich is an interesting candidate, but I just don't see him having a large enough national appeal. Don't have anything really against him, but I've yet to hear him really say much other than "as governor of Ohio, I did blah blah blah". There's been a lot of talk about who will come out on top among the governors, and in this race, it looks like it's going to be Kasich. Again though, I'm not sure that propels him much going forward.
SC was always going to be a better barometer (it's the first high population state with a broader demographic than either Iowa or NH), but there was some hope that maybe a few would drop out from NH and make things more clear there. Looks like that's not going to happen now. Thanks to Christie for being an obnoxious twit, and Rubio for not sniffing out the trap and dealing with it properly. Then again, that's something you want to have happen during the nomination process, and not leading up to the general. If Rubio does recover from this, he'll know better how to manage that sort of debate trick. But in the meantime, it almost leaves us with Bush now being the leading mainstream candidate. Sigh.
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