Pappas Wins New Hampshire Democratic Senate Primary Over Progressive Challenger

In the small-state democracy of New Hampshire, where independent minds have long resisted easy allegiance, Representative Chris Pappas emerged Tuesday from a Democratic Senate primary having turned back a progressive challenge from Karishma Manzur. His nomination is less a triumph than a threshold — the harder passage lies ahead, in a general election against former Governor John Sununu that neither side believes is settled. What the primary revealed, perhaps more than the result itself, is a democratic body politic wrestling with fatigue: voters who came to the polls carrying more doubt than