HUFFPOST HILL - Marco Poll Low

The White House delivered its budget proposal with just enough time remaining for pundits to not read it. New Hampshire is voting today, though we cannot say yet which dude in a pullover zipper sweater will take second. And tomorrow the campaigns switch gears and head to South Carolina, and future civilizations will wonder why, in the span of a day, our most important leaders went from to obsessing over national security to obsessing over corn pone. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Tuesday, February 9th, 2016:

NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY, Y'ALL - Despite the Democratic Socialist-like results from Iowa where all the vote resources were evenly split, Sanders is hoping for a more uneven distribution this time around. Pat Grossmith: "Monday's snowstorm appears to have had little effect on New Hampshire residents heading to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. City Clerk Matt Normand said the tabulators are running smoothly; the lines at the polls have been moving along; and the weather has really cooperated. Polls opened at 6 a.m. in the city and by 8:10 a.m., about 700 people had cast ballots in Ward 1, whose residents vote at Webster Elementary School. A steady stream of voters made their way into the school as exuberant supporters of candidates carried on outside. Ward 1 Clerk Sharon Kelly said there are about 6,000 registered voters in the ward. About two hours after polls opened about 700, or 11 percent of them, had voted." [Union Leader]

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