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I’d like to see them do away with the New Hampshire primary. It no longer means much. Ours was once considered the heart of rugged independence; itinerant mountain brahmins making do in pickups held together with Bondo and houses built by the hands of husband and wife with wood cut and milled from their own land. I know more than a few like that up here today, but many who can change both a diaper and the engine of an F150 have moved to Alaska. Or Texas.

What happened is the roads got too good and the cars too pleasurable to ride in; air-conditioned, four-wheel drive â€" you can listen to opera all the way from New Hampshire to the job in Boston. Today it is all about Iowa.

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