A Massachusetts Man Has a Big Edge in NH

Michael Barone, DC Examiner New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary has featured contests between candidates for 60 years, more than any other state in the nation. So this state, with four-tenths of 1 percent of the nation's population, has played a key role in American politics.New Hampshire's votes for Democratic challengers Estes Kefauver in 1952 and Eugene McCarthy in 1968 prompted Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson to announce they were not running for re-election days later.

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A Massachusetts Man Has a Big Edge in NH

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