A majority of voters in New Hampshire wrote-in Bidenā€™s name on ballots where he did not appear officially

President Joe Biden won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, despite his name not appearing on the stateā€™s presidential primary ballot.

The Associated Press called the race for Mr Biden shortly after polls closed on Tuesday night, as a majority of voters wrote in the presidentā€™s name.

Mr Bidenā€™s campaign purposefully did not file the presidentā€™s name for the ballot within the deadline in an act of solidarity with the Democratic National Conventionā€™s (DNC) decision to make South Carolina the first state to hold a primary.

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      10 months ago

      Sorry to pick on your comment, but I have a question about a statement everyone seems to assertā€¦

      Is he charismatic? No.

      (As a disclaimer Iā€™m out of touch with peopleā€™s impressions on this)

      I donā€™t understand this statement from everyone. Charismatic compared to what? Heā€™s way more charismatic than most humans - heā€™s a career politician who manages thousands of relationships. He snaps off solid one-liners to shut down trolls. He leaned into the Dark Brandon thing. If he spent effort seeming even more charismatic, Iā€™d be more concerned about his fitness for the job.

      Put another way, I see him as having the right balance of charisma for voters aged 35+.

      What are people wishing we had instead of that, in a presidential candidate?

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      10 months ago

      Multiple things are true at the same time. Heā€™s better for humanity than his alternative, heā€™s not a reality show fuckwit, but doing his job is not a positive as it almost entirely entails keeping everyone firmly under the boot of capitalism. Heā€™s made improvements within the totally broken system and also done nothing to change the totally broken system.

      I am in no way glad that heā€™s our president but Iā€™m glad itā€™s him over the orange monster.