New Hampshire is more important as a measure of Independent choices than that of the first primary.
February 9, 2016
By Matt Flegenheimer and Michael Barbaro
Manchester, NH — At this final hour of primary season here, (click here) amid the vicious mailers and ceaseless television ads, there seems no escape from the ugliness.
But in their own small protest against the excesses of democracy, the residents of 175 Elmwood Avenue have tried.
“No solicitation! Political or otherwise,” a handwritten note on their door reads. “Please respect our privacy. We promise not to knock on your door. Thanks.”
The attention is an essential element of life in the first state to hold a primary, the civic price paid for admission to an election that matters. Hotels fill. Businesses boom, briefly. Surely the backbench voting states — New Jersey and Nebraska, Indiana and South Dakota — would gladly take on the trouble....
There was another interesting caller on "Washington Journal" in being what she characterized as "...not the usual Trump voter." She stated she was masters' degree prepared and lived between Wilmington, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC near it's southern border of North Carolina with South Carolina.
There is a growing population of bedroom communities from megalopolis of Charlotte, NC. Rock Hill, South Carolina is one of them. But, this particular voter lives in the coastal area of NC. She stated Donald Trump is hitting on all the sacred cows and he is willing to be the one person not dependent on corporate and political money to carry out his campaign. I thought that DECISION was significant. It was to me.
