Counterpoint: they're key swing states. In the last 17 general elections, the winner carried at least one of IA & NH 16 times, both of them 11 times. Obama & Clinton both won IA & NH twice. Gore wins if he wins NH. Since 1892, only Carter in 1976 won without either.https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1202687684625518593 …
I think so. They have remained swing states even as the rest of the map has hardened since 2000.
