“The people of Iowa pick corn,” East Coast politician John H. Sununu famously said. “The people of New Hampshire pick presidents.”
The snark from the notoriously rude ex-New Hampshire governor is not entirely accurate — just ask presidents Harold Stassen, Henry Cabot Lodge, Estes Kefauver, or Paul Tsongas, Granite State winners all.
It does, however, illustrate a crucial political fact of presidential nominating campaigns: Live Free or Die State voters nearly always rejigger the race just one week after the Iowa caucuses, the importance of which Beltway pundits inevitably overanalyze, spewing several billion words of blowhard bloviation into the atmosphere over the Midwest.