There’s nothing like interacting with actual voters to shake up your perceptions of a political race. And after spending several days doing that in the Granite State, there are three lessons I learned that will inform the way I view the race in the coming months.

There are more undecided voters than you think – It’s long been a cliche that New Hampshire voters take a long time to settle on a candidate, but even knowing this, I was surprised how few voters I spoke with had made up their minds. It felt like fewer than in any previous primary I’ve covered there at this point in the race had come to a decision. Given the size of the field, voters are further from narrowing down their choices than is typical.