yes, another "representative" state. the difference being that, with a primary, you don't have the restrictive time rules that iowa's caucus imposed, eliminating a fair chunk of potential participants, making those results even less representative than they already were going to be.

TIME's Karen Tumulty, "Clinton Machine Shaken by Setback" The scope of Barack Obama's victory in Iowa has shaken the Clinton machine down to its bolts. Donors are panicking. The campaign has been making a round of calls to reassure notoriously fickle "super delegates" -- elected officials and party regulars who are awarded convention spots by virtue of their titles and positions -- who might be reconsidering their decisions to back the candidate who formerly looked like a sure winner. And internally, a round of recriminations is being aimed at her chief strategist, Mark Penn, as the representative of everything about her pseudo-incumbent campaign that has been too cautious, too arrogant, too conventional and too clueless as to how much the political landscape has shifted since the last Clinton reign.

Bradley to endorse Obama

I got to speak with and photograph Bill Bradley when he was here in St. Louis for a book signing last summer, and I must admit that it was a bit of a disappointment. I supported him in his presidential bid for the Democratic nomination over Al Gore back in 2000, but these days his viewpoints seem out of touch, more in line with those of John Edwards then Barack Obama.

The state has lost people to what the census calls internal migration, some of that is balanced out by international migration, and birthrate increases take care of the rest for a net gain.

If we were talking about Michigan whos economy is in peril, we would be saying poorer and less white due to loss.

In New Hampshire, and most of the North east what is happening is that middle and working class are leaving(coming to places like Texas and AZ), not because there are no jobs like in Mich. but because it is getting too expensive.  The immigrants tend not to be poor unskilled labor like in Texas but highly skilled foreign workers.

So voters in NH are going to be richer better educated and far more socially liberal than Iowa.  Remember comprehensive census estimates are from 2006 now two years old, and some of the factors that are behind the demographic switch have actually been accelerating, think housing bubble, and inflation in general.