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May 24, 2019 · 6. By dictate of its state constitution, New Hampshire holds the first presidential primary of the season. A common motto was "Always First, Always Right" until 1992, when for the first...
- Senior Politics Writer
Jan 23, 2024 · CONCORD, N.H. — Voters in the Granite State are headed to the polls Tuesday to vote in the first-in-the-nation primary. The New Hampshire primary as we know it today began in 1952 when...
- Origin of The New Hampshire Presidential Primary
- Origin of The Iowa Presidential Caucuses
- Democratic Party Reforms
- Iowa Jockeys to Be First
The Granite State’s decision to adopt a presidential primary was born out of the progressive movement of the late nineteenth century, which, among other reforms, led to the constitutional right of women to vote. New Hampshire adopted primaries for local and state elections starting in 1910, and then instituted a presidential primary for the 1916 el...
From its very beginning as a state when it joined the union in 1846, Iowa adopted the caucus and convention process for nominating candidates to political office. The state has since adopted primaries for statewide elections, but it continues to use the caucus/convention method for selecting delegates to the national party conventions. That process...
Objections to the party’s essentially undemocratic nomination process came to a head after the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Disillusioned antiwar Democrats, along with many party leaders who felt the nomination process needed to become more democratized, supported the establishment of a special commission to propose rules that would make...
The reforms had little immediate direct impact on the New Hampshire primary, which continued to be scheduled on Town Meeting Day, the second Tuesday of March. But the reforms did bring about significant changes in the Iowa caucuses, which now had to abide by a number of rules to make the process more transparent. Thus, in Iowa, the Democrats had to...
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Feb 8, 2016 · Because they can vote in whichever ballot they like and can register so close to primary day, the state is notoriously difficult to poll. New Hampshire has cemented its first-in-the-nation...
- Gillian Peele
New Hampshire, which had expected to be “first in the nation,” was now relegated to the first primary. Regardless of intent, Iowa had now positioned itself as the first state holding a vote that directly affected the presidential nomination process. New Hampshire, positioned as the first state holding a primary elec-
- David W Moore, Andrew Smith
- 2019
In New Hampshire independent voters can request either ballot on primary election day. This large demographic in the state gets attention from all candidates as the independents can often determine the outcome of the election. They are the core of why New Hampshire is a swing state.
Feb 5, 2016 · New Hampshire has held the first-in-the-nation primary since 1920. But only in the last decades of the twentieth century has it taken on such importance that on Tuesday the state expects to...
