Reply #6: NO REPUKE has EVER won both and only twice since 1976 has a Dem: [View All]

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N.H. race centers on undecided, not Iowa

By Joseph Curl
January 4, 2008


Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, lost in Iowa in 2000, then won in New Hampshire by 19 points only to disappear from the field two weeks later.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The voters of New Hampshire, fiercely independent and, right now, mostly undecided, don't much care what happened last night in the Iowa caucuses, and they often flaunt their independence at the ballot box.

Only twice since 1976 has the same Democrat won both Iowa and New Hampshire in a contested nominating campaign; no Republican candidate ever won both. And more often than not, the winners of the Iowa caucuses — not the New Hampshire primary — went on to win their party's nomination.

"New Hampshire Republicans often offer a contrary voice to that of Iowa Republicans," said Dante Scala, a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona knows that fact only too well: He lost Iowa to Texas Gov. George W. Bush in 2000, then won the Granite State by 19 points, thanks in large part to independent voters. But two weeks later, he got crushed in South Carolina and disappeared from the Republican field.<snip>

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