In picking presidents, New Hampshire forgoes producing them
In another early voting state, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's current candidacy has some GOP leaders concerned that his home state advantage will hurt the state's significance in 2016, though none of the top-tier candidates have shied away so far.
Given the fierceness with which we've defended the primary against enemies in the last several cycles ... if anything diminishes the primary as a legitimate test, it's like diminishing our most significant political possession.
Wood, the commanding officer of Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" during the Spanish-American War, was viewed by many as Roosevelt's political heir, but he lost the nomination to Warren G. Harding.
[...] 19 residents of New Hampshire have appeared on the ballot out of nearly 300 candidates, according to an Associated Press review of sample ballots and election results.
A theologian and author who formerly worked as a software engineering writer, he ran to raise awareness about the failures of Social Security, which he likened to a Ponzi scheme.
Though New Hampshire's extremely large, 424-member citizen Legislature provides an easy entry into politics, those who use it as a stepping stone to higher office tend to stop at the governorship or Congress.
[...] the state's two-year term for governor, which results in near-continuous campaign cycles, hampers presidential ambitions, he believes.