The chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Raymond Buckley will accompany Sanders to the secretary of state’s office to file his paperwork and has even gone on record giving assurances to appear, presumably, in any court proceedings should there be a challenge there or with the state’s bipartisan New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission.
It appears that the Sanders campaign may have hit a minor snag in the only state the candidate where the campaign has the most momentum. The Associated Press reported the candidates past refusal to officially declare himself a Democrat may present problems getting on the New Hampshire ballot.
Consistently, Sanders has polled the highest in only New Hampshire since last summer, although there are indications that campaign momentum may be slipping. A CBS/YouGov poll, conducted on October 25th, has the Sanders campaign 15 points ahead of frontrunner Hillary Clinton although other polls conducted by Monmouth and Suffolk University among registered Democrats have shown Clinton with a slight lead. The news that, if challenged, Sanders may not appear on the ballot in New Hampshire could be problematic, if not confusing, for supporters of Bernie Sanders, and could reflect negatively on the Democratic Party coming out of the primary.
To run in the party’s primary one must be a registered Democrat -- that is the rule. New Hampshire’s Secretary of State has opted not to say whether he will certify Bernie Sanders for the ballot. Being from Vermont, which has open primaries, the Senator had the luxury in his election and reelection campaigns of 2006 and 2012, of being able to declare himself a contender for the state’s Democratic nomination, win it, and then refuse the nomination in order to continue running as an independent. Continuing that strategy may not be an option for Sanders in other states, as in the case of New Hampshire, that do not have the same rules.
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