A question for the New Hampshire readers: We hear that as a matter of editorial policy, the Union Leader newspaper still refers to China as “Red China.” Our interns have searched its archives but old articles cost like $2.50 to read. WTF? Anyway, is this true? Do they refer to all Orien… um… Pacific Rim nations as “Red China” too? If true I’ll have to pack different clothes so please let me know.

Iowa’s so incredibly TOMORROW that we’d almost forgotten about its younger sister, New Hampshire, which is in like five tomorrows! Out there Romney and McCain are making sure that heat is as dead as possible, with a new CNN/WMUR poll giving them 30% apiece. As we know, however, the newspaper industry of New Hampshire will not stand by this Romney character having anything resembling a chance! In addition to the two “undorsements” against these delightful hobbits produced, the Union Leader this morning ran an editorial on the front page, written by the publisher (a veritable Murdoch in certain rural New Hampshire counties, insiders say), attacking sweet Mittens for “distorting” certain facts about American war hero John McCain. So weird, right?? These newspapers needs to get a life, which admittedly would be hard to do in New Hampshire. [Union Leader]

New Hampshire’s Union Leader newspaper, not willing to be outdone by those hooligans at the Concord Monitor, has published its own “undorsement” of Mitt Romney, and it’s too funny: “In this primary, the more Mitt Romney speaks, the less believable he becomes.” Romney will likely respond that he never “speaks,” despite being on the record as “speaking” several times while governor of Massachusetts. [Union Leader]