No Massachusetts candidate has EVER lost the NH primary. Romney could be the first.

[Renew Deal]

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Yet victory in New Hampshire has been a right of passage for Massachusetts politicians seeking the presidency. John F. Kennedy, former Gov. Michael Dukakis and Sen. John F. Kerry all won here before taking the Democratic nomination. In 1980, Sen. Edward Kennedy lost, and the nomination went to President Jimmy Carter.

(In 1964, former Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts, then U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, won New Hampshire's Republican primary as a write-in candidate, but Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona went on to win the party's nomination that year.)
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08007/847289-176.stm

[Mass]

1. This is actually incorrect. Ted Kennedy lost the NH primary in 1980.

Sure, it is explainable as he started campaigning late, contrarely to Romney, but he did not win.

http://www.primarynewhampshire.com/new-hampshire-primary-past-results.php

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. That Was A Sad Day

If not for the hostage crisis and the "rally around the flag" effect Ted Kennedy might have won the nomination...That being said, he would have probably lost to Reagan too...

[hughee99]

4. That's what I thought at first...

I think the phrasing is messed up. After rereading it, I think it's trying to say that no Massachusetts presidential candidate who won the nomination got there without winning NH.

Maybe I'm wrong in this interpretation, though.

[antiimperialist]

2. and even if it was true, what&#347; the sample?

3 candidates?

[Xipe Totec]

5. Romney is from Mass? No way!

Wasn't he governor of Utah or something?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. Actually a judge had to decide that

there were legitimate questions as to where Romney actually resided and if he was eligible to be governor of Mass.
A judge ruled in his favor (obviously).

[LiberalFighter]

8. What did the judge get in return?

[MethuenProgressive]

6. Ted Kennedy lost to Carter in 1980. edit: I see I'm late posting this!

You'd think a NH papah would remember that :O)