What is it that motivated you . He was a farmer. Right on the massachusetts a [inaudible] he paid 10 to get his name on the ballot. In order to run. So the first yes, 10. You know the price has gone up . Me primarily originally only from 1916ates and so to 1948, they only had delegates. In 1949, the legislature for the first time had a separate column put on the ballot. So in 1952, it was the first time that New Hampshire voters could vote. And since that ballot, the direct vote, every president since then, every person has one New Hampshire primary. A lot of pressure. So eisenhower was the first. For each president , it shows which primary they won. And this president was not elected, but he didnt win in New Hampshire. Right along up until today. So the theres been 17 president ial primaries since 1852, and of the 17, 14 of the winners became president that year, the other three came in second. Every single one has at least won one primary. We celebrate it. This guy did it in 1913. This happened in 49. And this happened in 1975. This guy. Pictures of what they look like when they did it. In 197 56789 there was an attempt to have it the way it was across the nation. They wanted to change New Hampshire laws. So this is i told mayor pete, our first primary will go one week after indianas. Same as minnesota. Minnesota got rid of it and indiana so we were standing alone. We had it for 50 years, it wasnt really significant. But we still have it. There are other states, one by one would get rid of the primary. Get rid of this but the people here wanted to have that power. [inaudible] it was legislation that said if we have to have the primary on the day other than the town meeting in massachusetts, we had to change it by moving it up a week. After 1972 people didnt want to potentially keep moving it up. Its still in the law, the primary will be on our Traditional Town meeting, unless in order to preserve the tradition it had to be moved up. And the governor would set the date. The governor at the time said no, ill veto that. Because governors will be too tempted to use it to their advantage. I have no idea what youre talking about. So the governor said no. And then the legislature often thats how it came to be. Youve been in office . We used to have meetings in his office, there were three of us that were 30 or younger. So paul would have the meeting. I had two years. You know he retired a few years ago. Like four years ago he asked me to come down and see him. When he went to work for them, he came up with the idea that he would computerize our corporate position so we were the first state agency, and he did it basically to make it a model for the rest of the country, paul did all of that whenever he calls me, to do something, im there. Ill get him to call you. He can tell you a few things. Do you wish to have your middle initial on the ballot . [indiscernible] some candidates do and some candidates dont. [indiscernible] you can let us know. Ok, so. Put your signature there. [indiscernible] it hasnt actually changed since 1980. There we go. We have the exact wording for the u. S. Constitution. [indiscernible] we did this because there had been some issues about whether a candidate should have to have a birth certificate. [indiscernible] just the language. So theres no we did have a person who filed once who [indiscernible] someone came in and said, that person is an egyptian. Hes not an american. No, but he admitted it. He admitted it right away. Yeah. And he said, i didnt know that you had to be. So it all happened within two hours. Someone came in and said, look at his website. So he was called and he said, well, yeah. So, it was added. That way the [indiscernible] so theres one other this makes it official on the ballot. Then we asked the candidate that when they file [indiscernible] previous came in this morning for steve gray. Campaign 2020. Watch live coverage of the president ial candidates on the campaign trail and make up your own mind. Cspans campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. Andext, political reporters former president ial Campaign Advisers preview the february 11 New Hampshire primary. They also compared the upcoming primaries to those in previous president ial races. The university of southern californias center for the political future hosted this event in los angeles. Tonights event will be broadcast on cspan and facebook live. I am delighted to have this conversation with seema mehta covering the 2020 election for the l. A. Times. She previously covered the 2012 and 2008 president ial elections. James pindell is covering 2020 for the boston globe. He is an onair political analyst for New Hampshires wmur tv and a commentator for outlets such as cnn and politico. Patrick griffin is also a cnn commentator, longtime New Hampshire political strategist, a