New Hampshire's famously libertarian ethos has somehow produced a profusion of lawmakers
than ten minutes talking to a political junkie in New Hampshire, and you will hear some version of this old chestnut: Ask a New Hampshirite if he plans to vote for Candidate X for president, and he’ll say, “I don’t know; I’ve only seen her three times.” The Granite State holds the first presidential primary , so voters there expect, and receive in profusion, face-to-face contact with anyone who wants their vote.
Somehow this ethos has produced a profusion of government. New Hampshire has 424 state legislators, or one for every 2,557 residents of voting age . This makes it not just the biggest state legislature in America, but the third-biggest legislative body in the Anglophone world, behind only the United States Congress and Britain’s Parliament. In addition to the legislature and governor it elects an executive council, a five-member body first convened in 1680 to check the royal governor’s power.
Over breakfast at a country club in Atkinson, where Donald Trump held one of his last pre-election rallies, George Hamblen, a party chairman in the neighbouring town of Plaistow, credits Mr Drake with “building something out of nothing”. On a recent presidential-election map, southern New Hampshire is solidly Republican. Republicans outnumber Democrats in 34 of Rockingham’s 37 towns.
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