NH, has gone either way for a good while now. In the year 2000, NH was the state which made the difference in Bush v. Gore, overlooked by virtually every News outlet. Check the Electoral Vote. If NH went ‘blue’ we would have had President Gore.
True though, Massachusetts Rats are moving to NH in big numbers which has significantly altered the political landscape there.
NH has 3 electoral votes, the minimum. Same
as number of Senators and Representatives.
The final 2000 tally
Bush 30 states
Gore 20 states & DC
Bush 271 EV
Gore 266 EV
Ok so you subtract 3 from Bush and give to
Gore if Gore wins NH. That makes it
Gore 269 EV
Bush 268 EV
But isn’t there a minimum of 270 needed?
Wikipedia:”One of D.C.’s three electors abstained from casting a vote for president or vice president.”
Would the election have been thrown to
the House?
TN was important. 11 EV
“Gore failed to win the popular vote in his home state, Tennessee, which both he and his father had represented in the Senate, making him the first major-party presidential candidate to have lost his home state since George McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972”
FL was won by Bush by only 537 votes.
TN was won by 80,000 votes
NH was won by 7,000 votes
FL was a nailbiter but those 7000 votes
in NH were important
WV actually is what cost Gore the WH...
Solid Blue state for Decades.... Even went to Dukakis in 88 and Carter in 80 (did flip to Reagan in 84, and Nixon in 72, Eisenhower in 56) But for an unincumbent re-election, the state hadn’t gone Republican since 1928!). Democrat war on coal, flipped the state and its been one of the most reliably red states ever since.