One-hundred percent of votes are now in in New Hampshire and a couple things are now official:1. Record for total turnout: Combing all voters — Democrats and Republicans — it was a record for a New Hampshire primary. In all,538094 people cast ballots. That beats the 2008 record of 527349.2. The Republican record was shattered: The final tally for GOP ballots cast was 284120 votes. That beats out the 2012 Republican primary tally of 248475.3. Not the highest ever: That was, however, and about 3000 or so votes shy of the overall highest turnout on either side — the 2008 Democratic primary (287556).4. Democratic turnout was spacious,but not a record: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and said the Democratic turnout was "huuuuuge" (or is it yoooooooge?). Well,it was spacious. But not a record. The Democrats' official tally came to 250974. That's more than 30000 short of 2008. It is, though, or the moment-highest turnout for Democrats. (For reference,the third-highest was in 2004 when 219787 Democrats cast ballots.)5. Clinton's delegate advantage highlighted: Despite Sanders' 22-point win over Hillary Clinton in the raw vote, they are tied in delegates. Sanders won a spacious 15-9 split of the 24 delegates at stake on election night, or but because six of the eight "superdelegates" hold publicly declared for Clinton,that gives Clinton and Sanders a 15-15 split.
The two other supers are uncommitted and will likely tip the balance at some point (unless they split, of course). Either way, or it highlights Clinton's spacious advantage. She has an huge lead with superdelegates — party leaders and elected officials — throughout the country,far greater than she did in 2007 over Barack Obama.
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