GOP shatters its turnout record; Democrats lag behind

Republicans set a new turnout record Tuesday in New Hampshire's primary, attracting more than a quarter of a million voters to the polls and offering evidence that most of the energy in the 2016 presidential race continues to be on the GOP side.
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Krauthammer: Christie's 'Suicide Attack' on Rubio Helped Trump Win NH

Donald Trump had a "yuuuge" win in the New Hampshire Republican primary, and it was in part thanks to Chris Christie going after Marco Rubio during the GOP debate over the weekend, Charles Krauthammer said tonight.
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Ted Cruz finds eager religious audience in moderate New Hampshire

In a dimly lit bar covered in Red Sox memorabilia, a bundled up, beer-drinking crowd jostled to get a glimpse of Ted Cruz.
"Scripture tells us there's nothing new under the sun," said Cruz, standing on a stool."Amen!" a woman shouted back.In New Hampshire, the second-most secular state in the country following only nearby Vermont, Cruz is leaning hard into his evangelical persona.
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Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Hold Big Leads in New Hampshire Poll

In New Hampshire, however, Mr. Trump received 33 percent support from likely voters in the Republican primary, which is more than double the amount of his closest rival, Mr. Rubio, at 15 percent. Mr. Cruz got 12 percent. And despite a sense that Mr. Christie is on the rise in the state, he was at 5 percent in the Fox News poll, in sixth place. Both Mr. Bush and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio are ahead of him, with Mr. Bush at 9 percent and Mr. Kasich at 7 percent.
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NH staff at pro-Carson super PAC quits to volunteer for Cruz

All five paid New Hampshire staffers at the pro-Ben Carson 2016 Committee super PAC quit their posts on Sunday to become volunteers for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, WMUR.com has learned.
Jerry Sickles of Keene, the spokesman for the staff, said he and the other four staffers recently came to the conclusion that Cruz is the conservative most able to win the GOP presidential nomination and the presidency.
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Trump goes for broke in NH

Donald Trump is ramping up his ground game and promising a heavy advertising campaign in the homestretch to New Hampshire's Feb. 9 primary.  Trump's campaign has announced that more than 200 town chairmen in New Hampshire will be helping him put up signs and get people to the polls.  He also is vowing to launch a $2 million ad buy in New Hampshire and South Carolina, where he has healthy leads in polls, and in Iowa, where he now trails Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Read more at The Hill Read More......

Bush readies his last stand in New Hampshire

New Hampshire is beginning to look like Jeb Bush's final stand. Stuck in the middle of the GOP pack he was expected to dominate, Bush is accelerating the time frame for his campaign's next ad buy in the state. His campaign also announced Tuesday that it is opening four regional field offices in New Hampshire and upping its on-the-ground staff from 12 people to 20.


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Christie's New Hampshire focus begins to pay dividends

The all-in-on-New Hampshire strategy might be finally paying off for Chris Christie.


The New Jersey governor, whose inability to gain traction in the presidential campaign has left him mired in single digits in national polls, is beginning to see a return on his considerable investment of time and energy in the first-primary-in-the-nation state.


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Bush's 'Jeb Can Fix It' tour appears to be changing few minds in New Hampshire

As Jeb Bush attempted to reintroduce himself to presidential primary voters in New Hampshire this week, the former Florida governor had a problem: Many had already met him.
"There's a whole negative air about Jeb amongst the people I know," said Myrna Greene, a retired school secretary who chairs the New Boston Republican Committee.


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How Cruz Won the NH Conservative Caucus Vote

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was the undisputed winner of the first ever caucus of New Hampshire conservatives to rally behind a candidate in advance of the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary in February. The 603 Alliance, a grassroots organization of New Hampshire conservatives, has endorsed Cruz.  Earlier this year the alliance began organizing the caucus as a means to prevent the conservative vote from getting split among so many candidates and thus handing the primary to an establishment candidate like Jeb Bush.


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Gov. Maggie Hassan will run for U.S. Senate in 2016

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan will run for U.S. Senate, News 9's political director Josh McElveen reports Monday morning.
The governor will challenge U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte for her seat in 2016.
As such, Hassan will not be seeking re-election as governor.


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Poll: Fiorina takes lead in New Hampshire post-debate

A Voter Gravity Poll released Friday shows Fiorina with 22 percent support among Granite State GOP Primary voters. She has a 4-point edge over her nearest competitor, billionaire Donald Trump, who has 18 percent support.


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Poll: Trump surges to biggest lead in New Hampshire; popular with independents; no McCain damage

A new poll of voters likely to take part in the New Hampshire Republican primary shows Donald Trump with the biggest lead he has yet held in the GOP race. The Monmouth University poll, released Tuesday morning, has Trump at 24 percent -- double the support of the next-highest Republican, Jeb Bush, at 12 percent.


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Poll: Brown Pulls Nearly Even With Shaheen in N.H.

Scott Brown is back in the ballgame.  The former Massachusetts senator had appeared to be fading in his bid to defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, but a new poll shows that the race is now up for grabs.  In the WMUR/UNH survey released Thursday night, Shaheen led Brown by 46 percent to 44 percent, which is within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

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