Don't Screw This Up, New Hampshire
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The New Hampshire Primary is a slingshot which can land underdogs on top and hobble frontrunners. Heaton travels there to see how the state works, how its people think, and what Tuesday's contest will mean for 2020. He speaks with Neil Levesque of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, and Joe Pace and Russell Dean about the unique way New Hampshirites solve problems at the local level.
Season 2, Ep 32
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage covering the great dumpster fire that is American democracy with glibness and insight. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Andrew Heaton and yes, I am wearing a tie. This week I'm coming to you from beautiful |
| 0:15.6 | New Hampshire, the Granite Countertop State where I'm talking to locals and crashing |
| 0:20.9 | presidential campaign rallies to figure out who's going to win American Idol. |
| 0:27.0 | And to a lesser extent, what's the significance of the first presidential primary of 2020 on American Idol? |
| 0:37.0 | I got in around midnight a couple of days ago and booked a room in a spooky New England town that is almost |
| 0:43.9 | certainly haunted. If not by ghosts, then by presidential candidates. And I |
| 0:47.8 | have to tell you, I have never felt more like a grown-up journalist than I do right |
| 0:52.2 | now. |
| 0:52.8 | In the morning, a guy from the hill |
| 0:55.1 | started talking to me, and we swap stories |
| 0:57.0 | about media events we've covered in the trenches |
| 0:59.6 | and where we'll be hanging out |
| 1:00.9 | with our fellow journalists. |
| 1:02.2 | And I just felt so chummy and professional |
| 1:04.4 | with other members of the press. |
| 1:07.9 | It probably helps that I told him I'm with the BBC, |
| 1:12.3 | and also that I used a British accent the entire time we spoke |
| 1:15.1 | which incidentally I will be reprising later this evening when I head over to |
| 1:19.8 | ladies night at the thirsty Crab over in Portsmouth, |
| 1:23.6 | Bring your own twin and drinks are on Heaton. |
| 1:26.9 | So this trip covering the New Hampshire primary, |
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