Once again, the overkill of commentary and instant analysis of the New Hampshire primary results leave us knowing not much that we knew going into the first primary vote: Donald Trump is the continuing choice candidate for Republicans, despite a good show for Nikki Haley as a less chaotic alternative.
The voting, even with New Hampshire’s peculiar same-day party registration and re-registration rules, came off with few surprises. For whatever reasons, the turnout was high for the state — just over 300,000. That included a higher-than-normal Democrats and “non-declared” voters who registered for the day to vote in the Republican primary.