I'm Hannah McCarthy. I'm the Capitice and this is Civics 101.

Today we are bringing you something a little bit different from our normal fair.

A couple of years ago our colleagues in New Hampshire Public Radio's Newsroom

made a podcast called Stranglehold. It looked at why it is

that New Hampshire has held the first presidential primary for decades.

How it has kept, yes, a Stranglehold on this critical role in picking

presidents. Despite being a tiny state that many argue is not

representative of a rapidly changing country.

Now this podcast made a lot of waves, not just here in New Hampshire but across the country

and it got a lot of pushback, especially from some of the people who had an interest in keeping the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire.

Political insiders, media types, even the former New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner,

the so-called Guardian of the Primary.

The Public Radio has a link to that saying to watch a show

where they have all these just misinformation untrue

and they linked it to your show yesterday.

I've heard about this program, Stranglehold.

Well, there will be so much stuff that is just totally untrue,

made up, not fact-reviewed.

You can hear that whole story. If you check out Stranglehold's first season,

wherever you get your podcasts, it's also a fascinating look inside

campaigning for president, among other things. So we really think you'll like it.

It is truly in the Civics 101 wheelhouse.

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