NEW HAMPSHIRE: Voter to MSNBC: Your Criticism of Bernie Made Me Vote for Him.

SEEMS REASONABLE: Pete Buttigieg is the embodiment of white privilege — and black voters know it.

SUCKING IN THE ’70s: Democratic contest looks like catastrophic mess of 1972.

HEH: When You Hear About Joe Biden’s Horrible NH Primary Finish You’ll Know Why He Got the Hell Out of Town.

STEVEN HAYWARD: FRACKING AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

What do the locals think about fracking? We’re told endless by environmental propagandists that it is poisoning the local water and air, though a thorough EPA study done during the Obama Administration found little evidence to support this.

A new study of voting results on an anti-fracking ballot initiative in Colorado in 2018 (which was defeated) in Energy Research & Social Science gives us a more fine-grained look at the matter. The key author of the study, Daniel Raimi of Resources for the Future, offers a plain English summary of the study on Twitter. His first finding is the most useful:

Key findings: (1) Strong opposition to #fracking is mostly found in places where there is little to no drilling activity. Strong support for drilling is mostly found in the places that have the largest density of wells. . . most people who live in the “patch” do want #fracking in their back yard.

The study also finds a sharp partisan divide, with Republicans favoring fracking and Democrats opposing it. To which we say: Duh. (For this we need social science?) Anyway, for more about the study, see here.

But you can see that if we left the matter up to the larger number of voters in San Francisco (or just the Denver metro area), fracking would be killed in opposition to the local opinion of people who live with it. Ironic, since those rural rubes provide the fuel for all those fancy Wolf and Viking gas ranges in those fancy professional-grade, two-sink kitchens in the Bay Area.

Just take the lead from Oxford and shut off gas to people who oppose fossil fuels.

NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS BEEN CALLED FOR BERNIE SANDERS.

Oh, BTW, Trump won there too.

AT AMAZON, Disposable Face Mask Surgical Box of 50 95% Medical Ear Loop Mouth.

WELL: Judge Orders Navy to Release USS Thresher Disaster Documents.

THAT’S A NICE TOUCH: Trump flies to Dover after rally to pay respects to two soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

I’VE FOUND MY NEW HOME DEFENSE PIECE: Dillon Aero 503D: New .50 Cal Gatling Gun Fires 1,500 Rounds Per Minute. Unless I can get it in 30mm.

WE’RE CERTAINLY LIKELY TO SEE A LOT MORE DECOUPLING: China: A Brutal Post-Coronavirus Economic Reset.

I FIND YOUR IDEAS INTRIGUING AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER: Maybe nobody likes Biden because he’s a jerk.

So no winner yet, but Bernie’s led all night. Mayor Pete never has, Amy is a steady #3, and Warren and Biden are mired in single digits.

REPORT: Andrew Yang to suspend 2020 presidential campaign.

UPDATE: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet from Colorado is ending his presidential campaign.

UPDATE (10:32 PM EST): “CBS News confirms Deval Patrick will suspend his campaign tomorrow. Patrick, who entered the race in November, failed to gain a foothold in an already crowded primary field,” CBS’s Grace Segers tweets.

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Patrick, who was the allegedly successful governor of a neighboring state, is barely into four figures. A truly pathetic performance. Then again, it’s Deval Patrick.

HMM: All four Roger Stone prosecutors resign from case after DOJ backpedals on sentencing recommendation.

Well, maybe they should have: Mueller Prosecutors May Have Lied To DOJ About Stone Prison Sentence Recommendation.

CHANGE: William Gerstenmaier joins SpaceX, and that’s a really big deal.

OPEN THREAD: Because I care about you and want you to be happy.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Four major journalistic errors in just 10 hours.

I’D JUST BUY DIRECTLY FROM SPACEX IF IT WERE ME: NASA gets $25B in funding from White House to land on the moon and Mars.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Stanford Law students walk out on speaker discussing legality of DACA repeal. “The walkout was organized by the Stanford Latinx Law Students Association along with 11 other student groups. The SLLSA’s Raquel Zepeda called the talk an ‘intellectually cheap and morally affronting topic, despite the fact Hawkins noted he would be pointing out arguments on both sides of the issue. Certainly telling a judge his decision was ‘intellectually cheap and morally affronting’ would work for Zepeda in court, right?”

BLOOMBERG 2015 VIDEO: Defends Throwing Minority Kids “Up Against The Wall and Frisk Them.”

Related: ‘Firefighters, man:’ CNN correspondent tries hard to discredit the guy who spotlighted damning 2015 audio of Mike Bloomberg (video).

WITH SPECIAL FIREBALL XL5 ACTION: Florida Gets First Space Force Base.

I’m disappointed that Peterson AFB wasn’t the first, but still, I love having Space Force bases now.

KLOMENTUM: “It’s the Klobuchar miracle,” I say out loud.

LIVE: Drunkblogging the New Hampshire Primary.

(Bumped.)

WHEN YOUR CANDIDATE UNDERCUTS YOUR ‘DOOMSDAY’ WARNING: Pro-Biden super PAC warns of ‘doomsday scenario’ for Democrats.

MANCHESTER, N.H. – A super PAC supporting former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House bid is urging  donors to “dig deep right now” into their pockets and is warning that if Biden’s campaign collapses, Democrats could face “a doomsday scenario.”

The memo from the Unite the Country super PAC — seen as a signal of deep concerns among Biden supporters about the former vice president’s White House prospects — warned that “donors hedging their bets on Biden because of [Mike] Bloomberg could be creating a doomsday scenario for the Democrats everywhere.”

What’s the problem? Biden: ‘We Could Run Mickey Mouse Against This President and Have a Shot.’