For referring me here, claim your reward at No. 13 in this thread. :)
I don’t regard NH as a blue state. In 2004, Kerry won as a favorite son, and even then won by only 9,000 votes out of over 670,000 votes cast (roughly 1%). Moreover, NH is one of those states where McCain performed well and Obama not so well. I exect it to go red this time around.
You can call NH purple, as I do with NM and IA. All three flipped between 2000 and 2004. But for everyone fretting over McCain’s red states that he has to defend, I like to bring up all Obama’s blue states on the cusp. You’re well aware of them, but not everyone is.