111.  Instead he is relying on the fact that voters in New Hampshire, the first primary state, sometimes take a cranky pride in being contrary.

112.  It is the first Baltic state to file a formal application.

113.  It made New York one of the first states to bring juveniles as young as 13 into adult court.

114.  It was among the first states to form black units for Civil War service, historians said.

115.  It will be the first large industrial state to vote.

116.  It was the first state to elect a woman lieutenant governor.

117.  It was the first state to legalize abortion.

118.  It was the first state to let you pay taxes by phone, and the first to put purchasing contracts on the Internet.

119.  It would have made California the first state to have such a law, she said.

120.  It's the first state that has a lot of caucasian ethnics and it's the home of the Reagan Democrats."