Reply #8: Northeastern pols always, always enjoy a huge advantage in NH. [View All]

[Bucky]

In 1988 Mike Dukakis used NH as a spring board to the nomination and went on to prove New England is a bad gauge of national popularity. That same year Poppy Bush ran in NH as a "son of Connecticut" which helped him put down Bob Dole's insurgency.

In 1992 Paul Tsongas won NH and went on to lose the nomination

In 2000 Bill Bradley got his best performance against the inevitable nominee, Gore, in NH. His numbers went straight down hill after that.

In 2004 New Hampshire was a show down between two New England pols, both of whom before Iowa were correctly calculating NH as a "must win."

New Hampshirites are among the most colloquial and regionally chauvinistic voters in the union. If Romney wins it, it means nothing. It's just neighbors liking neighbors more than outsiders.