The Granite of New Hampshire in Their Muscles and Their Brains
John Kerry doesn’t have to win Florida this year. Nor does he have to win Ohio. Or Colorado. Or John Edwards’s home state of North Carolina. Bush won all those states in 2000, and Bush can have them again this year.
If Kerry can win every state Gore won last time (which doesn’t even include Gore’s home state of Tennessee), all he needs to add is New Hampshire. Gore lost the Granite State by all of 7,211 votes last time. John Kerry’s home state borders New Hampshire to the south, and his supporters mounted an amazing turnout in the primary. They can do it again this fall, and this time they’ll have help from Howard Dean, whose state is on New Hampshire’s western border.
Good thing I’m still registered to vote there.