New Hampshire political reporter Paul Steinhauser described Granite State voters as “very late deciders,” when he tried to explain the state’s tight Democratic primary race.
“[There is] no clear frontrunner here,” Steinhauser said. “New Hampshire voters, very late deciders.”
The latest CNN/UNH poll this week showed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) only ahead of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by three points and Warren only ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden by three points. Five points behind Biden was South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 10 percent.
Steinhauser noted that the poll also showed that only 23 percent of Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire had made up their mind on who they were going to vote for.
“On February 11, that’s when they’ll make up their minds,” Steinhauser added, referring to the date of the state’s primary.
The ever important Iowa caucuses are a week earlier on Feb. 3 and Steinhauser believes that the results in Iowa will play, at least in part, to how New Hampshire voters decide.
The latest Iowa poll, conducted by The New York Times and Sienna College, depicts a tight race in the Hawkeye State.
Warren came in first at 22 percent, followed by Sanders at 19 percent, Buttigieg at 18 percent and Biden at 17 percent.
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