Go over the budget west at 1 00 in time. Here on cspan. 1 30, a discussion about the defense portion of the budget with pentagon officials over on cspan2. Tonight, results from the primary starting at 8 00 eastern with coverage from w m you are manchester and we will show the victory and concession speeches and take your Facebook Comments and tweets. Currently on the fence between hillary and bernie. It is important to me, education. I am a high school and middle school teacher. I want to know what the stance is on the common core and what they want to do with it. What is most important to me as the National Debt because it affects us teens. What i find most important is what you are voting for because i am not endorsing anyone. I want you to get out to the polls and use your voice. My number one issue is hitting big money out of politics. Citizens united needs to be overturned. That,we address Everything Else will keep getting worse and worse. A very small number of people making deci
Developed in importance over the years, particularly since 1952. The third part i will focus on are efforts to bump New Hampshire out of its slot is the first primary. How those things happened. What was done to respond to them in particular, that the , secretary of state is required by law to set the primary date of New Hampshires primary one week before any similar contest. Later on this week secretary of state gardner will be coming to talk about these issues. At one time we had a saying this is always first, always right. It is not always right. The candidate who will become the eventual nominee or president does not always have to win the New Hampshire primary. We will talk about that a when talk about that a little bit as well as we go on. When did primary start and what happened . First of all, theres nothing in the constitution about nominating candidates for president. The constitution is pretty quiet on how we choose who the nominees are going to be. Article ii, paragraph 25
February 14, at 4 p. M. Eastern. This coming tuesday is the first of the nature New Hampshire primary. Next Political Science professor andrew smith teaches a class on the history of the primary and its significance in the president ial election process. We recorded the class at the university of New Hampshire in 2011. His class is about an hour and 15 minutes. Professor smith welcome. Today people talk about the history of the New Hampshire primary. Before we get into the history, i want to talk for a bit about the history of the nomination process en toto. How do we nominate the candidates for president . The thing i want to talk about overall, first off, giving you a sense of the New Hampshire primary. It did not start with the first president ial primary. I will talk about how it developed in importance over the years, particularly since 1952. The third part i will focus on is efforts to bump New Hampshire out of its slot is the first primary. How those things happened. What was do
20 seconds past midnight last night. And new hampshirites in the attern state take their turn the voting booth today. Were spending our first 45 minutes opening our phones to talk about the first in the nation primary. New hampshire residents 8003. 88003. Independents across the country, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on ial media on twitter spanwj, facebook, at facebook. Com cspan. A very good morning to you. Papers, all todays about the New Hampshire primary, this on the front page of usatoday, game on, simply the headline there. The front page of the Washington Post this morning, barbs and pleas before the New Hampshire vote following candidates on the campaign trail. The Washington Times talks about the republican primary, trump confident hell win in New Hampshire. The wall street journal talking about that race for second intenseifies as the headline there. Remind our viewers of where the polling stands right now. We are real clear politics has an average of polls. The
She will give us the latest update on the turnout. How is it going . Much lower than i would have expected did normally i would have expected a couple thousand people. We have less than 1000. Knotted all what we expected. Why . Good question. Snow . A good base no. We have had a steady flow of people coming in. There has not been a huge influx. I am expecting an influx around 4 00 oclock. People getting out of work. It has been steady, but light. There have been some work complaints. A trap of cars to get in here. It ienorus. He pice e outher rit notryi to rk o that weave ly bn inhe pling place for three years. We get a little bit each time. Trying to make it easier for voters. It did not work. We are out there trying to fix it to make it easier. Anybody a mind by seven. If you are here, you will vote. That is great. The secretary of state bill gardner was here earlier. 200 precincts. Sticking with the forecast. 550,000 primary voters. Peter barnes. Donald trump. Serious question. What