“Trump won the state by a decent margin. However, among the swing voters who will decide the general election, Trump showed potentially debilitating weakness. According to the exit polls, Trump lost Independent/undeclared voters by 30 points. What makes this number especially troubling for Trump is that the universe of Independents who voted last night is a Republican-leaning slice of New Hampshire Independents.”

Media will often tell you there’s no ‘swinging middle’ in America, that the binary battle-lines are already drawn. There is is ‘middle’, it’s been proven election after election. Keep an eye on this detail going forward this year.