[Nervous Tick]

>> I think Iowa is more important, given how liberal NH is.

Iowa’s pretty darn liberal too, in a populist, drunk-on-corn-squeezin’s sort of way. If you get my drift.

[C. Edmund Wright]

yes I do - it’s more of a selective liberalism in Iowa than the full throated kind in NH - especially since so many NH residents came from NY or Conn.

[lentulusgracchus]

Iowa's pretty darn liberal too, in a populist, drunk-on-corn-squeezin's sort of way.

So, okay, move up a more conservative Western State like Oklahoma close to Iowa's date, and pair NH with South Carolina. Voila'! "Balance"!