WEEKLY STANDARD
Grim Tidings for Hillary
by Jonathan V. Last
February 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s loss to Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire primary wasn’t as bad as she’d feared. It was worse. Sanders’s margin of victory — 60 percent to 39 percent — was the largest ever by a Democrat who wasn’t a sitting president. It was a come-from-behind win: Eight months ago, Sanders was at 9 percent and Clinton held a 46-point advantage. And Sanders overperformed the polls. Only 1 of the last 15 polls had him above 60 percent; the Real Clear Politics average in New Hampshire had him at 54.5 percent going into the vote. READ MORE