| 100% | IOWA | 4 | State with an early primary caucus |
| 72% | IOWA | 4 | Midwestern state with an early presidential caucus |
| 46% | MAINE | 5 | State with an annual lobster festival |
| 46% | OHIO | 4 | State with an astronaut on its quarter |
| 46% | IDAHO | 5 | State with an annual Spud Day celebration |
| 45% | IOWA | 4 | Early primary state |
| 45% | IOWA | 4 | State with caucuses |
| 45% | OHIO | 4 | State with an official groundhog named Buckeye Chuck |
| 45% | IOWA | 4 | State with January caucuses |
| 44% | REDEYE | 6 | It might end with an early touchdown |
| 44% | HARLEM | 6 | Neighborhood with an early 20th-century Renaissance |
| 44% | SINALOA | 7 | Mexican state with an infamous drug cartel |
| 43% | ROSEN | 5 | Physicist Nathan with an early theory of wormholes |
| 43% | SNL | 3 | Show with an early a.m. after-party |
| 43% | IOWA | 4 | State with the first presidential caucus |
| 43% | TALKIE | 6 | An early film with a soundtrack |
| 43% | CSI | 3 | Show with an early episode titled "Crate 'n Burial" |
| 42% | IOWA | 4 | State with a botched caucus in 2020 |
| 42% | IOWA | 4 | Early caucus state |
| 41% | IOWA | 4 | Early political caucus state |
| 41% | MONACO | 6 | Sovereign state with an area of less than a square mile |
| 38% | PENNYRED | 8 | Early British postage stamp with a primary hue |
| 38% | ROO | 3 | Andrés Quintana ___ (Mexican War of Independence politician with an eponymous state) |
| 38% | SNOWE | 5 | Former Maine senator Olympia with an apt name for her state |
| 38% | CITYSCAPE | 9 | An image with urban scenery as its primary focus |
| 36% | INDY | 4 | State capital with an annual auto race, for short |
| 35% | MODERNISTIC | 11 | Remake of the 1995 film "Crimson Tide" with an aesthetic evoking early 20th-century art? |
| 35% | BOISE | 5 | State capital with an annual New Year’s Eve Potato Drop |
| 32% | PREVIEW | 7 | An early glimpse |
| 32% | PABA | 4 | An early sunscreen |