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New Hampshire's presidential primaries are right around the corner,
scheduled for Tuesday, and the weather could impact the voter turnout
and overall election results.
In the Iowa caucus results the week prior, Pete Buttigieg received 13
delegates and 26.2 percent of the votes, compared to Sanders' 12
delegates and 26.1 percent of the votes. However, several news outlets
were unable to declare a clear winner because of inconsistencies in this
year's process.
Prior to the Iowa caucus, Sanders held the lead with 24 percent,
followed closely by Buttigieg at 20 percent, according to a study from
Monmouth University.
However, according to a Boston Globe/Suffolk University Poll, Buttigieg
actually trails by just one point at 23 percent, with the margin between
him and other candidates being over 10 points.
FiveThirtyEight's live polling average chart shows Sanders holds a lead
in the state polls as of noon on Saturday, which he has held onto this
chart since overtaking Biden on Jan. 16.
With young voters, Sanders has a significant lead with 42 percent, while
Buttigieg trails with 11 percent. With voters over 50, the numbers are
more closely tied; however, Sanders still leads with 23 percent,
followed by Buttigieg at 21 percent.
"[The Iowa Caucus] won't tell you to a great extent who will win the
nomination, let alone the presidency," Drake University political
science professor and longtime political analyst Dennis Goldford
previously told AccuWeather. "They have a better chance to tell you who
will not win the nomination. In other words, if you don't do well in
Iowa in the past at least, your money dries up, it's hard to continue."
In the 2016 election, Clinton won New Hampshire -- the smallest swing state -- by less than 1 point, according to
Politico.
Some 276,385 people in the state are registered as Democrats, compared
to 288,464 that are registered as Republicans. The vast majority of
voters in the state are undeclared, 415,871.
While the last presidential election was a close call, both of the
states congressional districts went Democratic in the 2018 midterms and
the most recent elections have given the Democrats senate seats.
According to research conducted by AccuWeather in 2016 that analyzed
weather trends and its correlation to voting data, difficult weather
conditions, including winter weather, can affect voter turnout with
swing voters especially.
Research shows that women are less likely to vote when conditions are
colder, and voters between the ages of 18-24 are more likely to vote
when the weather is warm and sunny, which could affect Sanders' numbers,
as he is the popular candidate among young voters.
AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Rossio said New Hampshire has had a
rather warm winter season so far, with cities like Concord reaching up
to 8 F above average.
"It's been a relatively warm winter, basically across much of the east," Rossio said.
However, the rising temperatures are expected to shift for the primaries on Tuesday, hovering in the 30s.
"It's not going to be brutally cold by any means, but it'll be chilly," he said.
He predicts that any precipitation that occurs will be in the form of
light snow in the late afternoon through the evening, and could continue
into the night.
"As long as voters went out early, it will probably be dry," Rossio said. "But it probably gets more dicey later in the day."
He said in the evening when people start to get out of work, the snow could affect road conditions.
Rossio further stated that he believes the likelihood of snowfall to be
around 40 percent, and the southern part of the state along the coast,
which is also the most densely populated, will get hit the most.
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