Is this a flashback? Is it 1992 all over again? Humm..., Maybe, just a bit older.THE 1992 Democratic New Hampshire primary was truly unique inPhoto, NPR
recent presidential politics. It was the only time in a recent presidential
nominating process that Iowa was not contested. The New Hampshire primary became
the voters' first verdict on the candidates. As some old salts will recall, Tom
Harkin, the popular Democratic senator from Iowa, was a candidate and the other
campaigns wisely decided to concede the Iowa caucuses to him. As contrasted with
2008, the Iowa caucuses in 1992 were a political nonevent. The net result of
this was to make New Hampshire even more contested and definitive in the 1992
primaries. We lived and breathed New Hampshire from New Year's Day to election
night, Feb. 18, 1992, in what was without a doubt the most intense 49 days in my
life.
