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All states do. They simply happen at different times during the year. The earlier ones carry greater weight with the candidates so they get more of the candidates (& there for the media's) attention.

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The New York Times has a 2008 Election Guide that answers this question. The link is http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/primaries/republicanprimaries/index.html

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New Hampshire has the first primary in each Presidential cycle. This has been a tradition every four years since 1920.

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