But it was a very different story in the state's older, post-industrial cities and towns, where Sanders improved by leaps and bounds over Obama's '08 performance. Take Berlin, a struggling mill city in the North Country, where Obama actually ran third, behind John Edwards. Clinton was so strong in Berlin in '08 that her vote total actually exceeded that of Obama's and Edwards' combined. But this time, she lost the city by 13 points to Sanders. Rochester, another blue-collar mill town, was another Clinton stronghold in '08, where she ran up a 976-vote plurality over Obama — a 16-point margin. Sanders, though, won Rochester on Tuesday by 21 points.
Sanders' success with blue collar voters in New Hampshire carries potentially significant implications. Conventional wisdom has held that his campaign is fueled by the same liberal white voters who sided with Obama in '08 — but doomed by his inability to make inroads with black voters, who were essential to Obama's triumph.
But the New Hampshire result suggests that Sanders is winning over white voters who shunned Obama in 2008. Eight years ago, it was blue collar whites who sustained Clinton's campaign through the end of the Democratic primary season, providing her edge in must-win contests in Pennsylvania and Ohio and powering her to landslide victories in "Greater Appalachia" states from Oklahoma to West Virginia. If Sanders can continue to win these voters over, he may be in position to win far more states than most have assumed.
. If hillary picked him, she would deserve to lose the general. 
