Last week I journeyed to distant New Hampshire to fling myself at campaign events and watch the primary spark and smoke cigars with other middle-aged bearded men, which man New Hampshire seems to be the capital of and I am fine with that but this episode isn't about who won the New Hampshire primary or what

that means for the 2024 election. It's about something bigger.

Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host and intrepid field scout into the land of lumberumberjacks, Andrew Heaton.

Coming to you from the great state of New Hampshire,

where it's in the low teens outside, as God intended, I just got in off the bus from Boston which was

thrilling for me because I I like regional accents I like New England accents and I thought the whole ride was really funny

because the bus driver every time we stopped to pick up new people the bus driver would go

all right where to and then people would say you know wherever they

were going to I had Hemlock New Hampshire gluten New Hampshire wherever they were

headed to and every time he'd go fine get in like he was doing him a favor it was

amazing I was I was enthralled the entire time anyway it's cold I'm going in

I'm back inside but I'm not complaining I'm not complaining about the cold but I am

inside so I have previously traveled to New Hampshire I did it this time four years ago and learned

about the state and was absolutely enchanted and did a whole episode on how New England

town hall meetings work so if you want sort of unadulterated,

Heaton is enthralled with new place,

I have linked to that episode in today's show notes,

today's description if you want to check that out.

For our purposes today, now that I have triumphantly returned to what I call Yankee Narnia,

I am zipping in between various campaign rallies.

And while I am of course concerned with who's going to win the primary,

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