Check this out: In his 2016 win in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders got 152,193 votes and 16 delegates to the Democratic convention.
Now, on this eve of the 2020 New Hampshire primary, here's our take.
In the last four years, Sanders has never stopped campaigning for the White House. He has more money than any other candidate on the ballot tomorrow — a reversal from four years ago. He's been a neighbor of New Hampshire ever since he moved to Vermont in the 1960s.
So this year, 152,193 should not be his ceiling. It should be his floor.
We mention this knowing that we will vote for the Democratic nominee come hell or high water, whoever it is. But we just want to warn the pundits: Don't let the Sanders campaign spin you, even if he lands in first place. He only got half of his 2016 Iowa support last week — and if he doesn't get more than 150,000 votes in New Hampshire tomorrow, he can't claim a win. We cats PURR.
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