It was cool when I was a teenager in the 80s. I think I met everyone who ran for president from 1984 to 1992 (I guess by extension I met most of the people who had run in 1980), or damn near.

But big picture, it's silly for NH to have the first primary, and ridiculous that such importance has been attached to the first primary. The second part we can't do much about, but we can fix the first.