Question: Who was the winner of the New Hampshire primary when one of the runners-up was a graduate of Harvard , born August 7 , 1950 ?

text: New Hampshire primary
Winners and runners-up -- Presidential results

The New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide party primary elections and the second party contest (the first being the Iowa caucuses) held in the United States every four years as part of the process of choosing the delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions which choose the party nominees for the presidential elections to be held the subsequent November. Although only a few delegates are chosen in the New Hampshire primary, its real importance comes from the massive media coverage it receives (along with the first caucus in Iowa). Spurred by the events of the 1968 election, reforms that began with the 1972 election elevated the two states' importance to the overall election, and began to receive as much media attention as all of the other state contests combined. Examples of this extraordinary coverage have been seen on the campuses of Dartmouth College and Saint Anselm College, as the colleges have held multiple national debates and have attracted media outlets like NPR, Fox News, CNN, NBC, and ABC. The publicity and momentum can be enormous from a decisive win by a frontrunner, or better-than-expected result in the New Hampshire primary. The upset or weak showing by a front-runner changes the calculus of national politics in a matter of hours, as happened in 1952 (D), 1968 (D), 1980 (R), and 2008 (D). Since 1952, the primary has been a major testing ground for candidates for both the Republican and Democratic nominations. Candidates who do poorly frequently drop out, while lesser-known, underfunded candidates who excel in New Hampshire can become serious contenders, garnering large amounts of media attention and campaign funding. Crucially, the New Hampshire primary is not a closed primary, where voter participation is limited by voters' past or recent party registration. Instead, New Hampshire enables any voter who has been undeclared, or re-registers as undeclared (not registered with any party) to vote in either party's primary. Candidates who do well in the state are seen as having a strong appeal to independents - who account for as much as 41% of the electorate. A strong performance in New Hampshire is seen as a bellwether for how well a candidate can do in a general election, given their appeal to less partisan voters who sometimes flood that party's primary, if they want to participate at all.
Primary date Winner Runners-Up
February 9 , 2016 Donald Trump ( 35.34% ) Governor John Kasich ( 15.81% ) , Senator Ted Cruz ( 11.68% ) , former Governor Jeb Bush ( 11.02% ) , Senator Marco Rubio ( 10.57% ) , Governor Chris Christie ( 7.42% ) , businesswoman Carly Fiorina ( 4.12% ) , retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson ( 2.29% )
January 10 , 2012 Former Governor Mitt Romney ( 39.26% ) Congressman Ron Paul ( 22.89% ) , Governor Jon Huntsman ( 16.89% ) , Senator Rick Santorum ( 9.43% ) , former Speaker Newt Gingrich ( 9.43% )
January 8 , 2008 Senator John McCain ( 37.00% ) Former Governor Mitt Romney ( 31.55% ) , former Governor Mike Huckabee ( 11.23% ) , former Mayor Rudy Giuliani ( 8.48% ) , Congressman Ron Paul ( 7.65% ) , former Senator Fred Thompson ( 1.23% )
January 27 , 2004 President George W. Bush ( 80.96% ) No other candidate received 5%
February 1 , 2000 Senator John McCain ( 48.59% ) Governor George W. Bush ( 30.39% ) , Steve Forbes , Jr. ( 12.68% ) and former Ambassador Alan Keyes ( 6.38% )
February 20 , 1996 Pat Buchanan ( 27.26% ) Senator Bob Dole ( 26.23% ) , Governor Lamar Alexander ( 22.60% ) , Steve Forbes ( 12.24% ) , Senator Richard G. Dick Lugar ( 5.19% ) , former Ambassador Alan Keyes ( 2.67% ) and Morry Taylor ( 1.4% )
February 18 , 1992 President George H. W. Bush ( 53.19% ) Patrick J. Pat Buchanan ( 37.53% )
February 16 , 1988 Vice President George H. W. Bush ( 37.70% ) Senator Bob Dole ( 28.48% ) , Congressman Jack F. Kemp , Jr. ( 12.79% ) , former Governor Pierre S. Pete du Pont IV ( 10.10% ) , and Reverend Marion G. Pat Robertson ( 9.40% )
February 28 , 1984 President Ronald Reagan ( 86.42% ) Only Democrat Gary Hart ( 5.27% ) and former Governor Harold E. Stassen ( 2.06% ) also polled more than 2%
February 26 , 1980 Former Governor Ronald Reagan ( 49.86% ) Ambassador George H. W. Bush ( 22.94% ) , Senator Howard H. Baker , Jr. ( 12.98% ) , Congressman John B. Anderson ( 9.91% ) , Congressman Philip M. Phil Crane ( 1.80% ) , former Governor John B. Connally ( 1.54% )
February 24 , 1976 President Gerald R. Ford ( 50.06% ) Former Governor Ronald Reagan ( 48.62% )
March 7 , 1972 President Richard Nixon ( 67.61% ) Congressman Paul N. Pete McCloskey , Jr. ( 19.79% ) and Congressman John M. Ashbrook ( 9.69% )
March 12 , 1968 Former Vice President Richard Nixon ( 77.61% ) Governor Nelson Rockefeller ( 10.82% ) , Senator Eugene McCarthy ( 5.30% ) , President Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1.71% ) , Governor George Romney ( 1.68% )
March 10 , 1964 Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge , Jr. * ( 35.54% ) Senator Barry M. Goldwater ( 22.28% ) , Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller ( 21.99% ) , and former Vice President Richard Nixon ( 16.78% )
March 8 , 1960 Vice President Richard Nixon ( 89.28% ) The next highest candidate was Governor Nelson Rockefeller ( 3.76% )
March 13 , 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 94.11% ) Of the more than 57,000 GOP votes cast only 600 were not for Eisenhower
March 11 , 1952 General Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 56.31% ) Senator Robert A. Taft ( 31,18% ) , former Governor Harold E. Stassen ( 7.93% ) and General Douglas MacArthur ( 3.89% )