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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 1, 2000
New Hampshire Primary
Candidates prepare for primary
Independent votes key to primary win
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"Even if McCain wins, Bush can kind of shrug it off. If Bradley beats Gore, though, that might open things up for him."
But one thing that Bradley and McCain have going for them, Loomis said, is the number of independent voters in New Hampshire.
"Registered independents can vote in either primary," he said. "One of the most interesting things in this primary is that Bradley and McCain are competing against each other for independent votes."
Jack Martin, President of KU Young Democrats, agreed with Loomis.
"It's a matter of whether the independents vote republican or democrat," he said. "You can't really predict what they'll do. New Hampshire is a funny state."
More people are registered as independents than Republicans or Democrats in New Hampshire, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner said.
Cigler said that independents had the ability to make or break Bradley and McCain's showing.
"One difference in the way that independents can participate in the primary is the way they can help McCain and Bradley." Cigler said. "If the independents move to aid McCain, or move en masse to help Bradley a little bit, it could be what they need."
Gardner predicted that more than 351,000 voters, 47.5 percent of the state's registered voters, would cast their ballots today.
Presidential hopefuls shovel sidewalks, bowl to connect with voters
The Associated Press
NASHUA, N.H. — The presidential candidates shoved snow, flipped pancakes and trudged through the slushy streets of New Hampshire yesterday, waging handshake-to-handshake combat to the finish of their hard-fought primary races.
With the field puzzling about ways to get supporters to voting booths, Sen. John McCain joked that he had the answer, "Death threats," the Arizona Republican said, "If they don't go out, and don't vote for McCain, then don't start your car for the next week."
Kidding aside, the stakes were high for McCain who badly needs a victory in his nomination fight with better-financed George W. Bush. Bush is seeking a come-from-behind victory here to burnish his front-running
vatives Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer are trying to show they still have a chance.
"I'm confident of victory," McCain said. Recent polls give McCain a slight edge.
"I like my chances a lot," said Bush, whose aides said momentum was on his side, even if time wasn't.
Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley were locked in a race that could determine the staying power of Bradley's insurgent campaign.
"We're closing fast," Bradley said, as polls showed the former New Jersey senator trailing Gore but posing a threat in their bitterly fought race. Bradley has enough money to weather a New Hampshire loss more easily than McCain.
The candidates' schedules were all made-for-TV, though one photo opportunity didn't turn out as planned for the struggling Bauer campaign. He tumbled off the stage during a pancake-flipping demonstration. The griddle pan was bent, but the candidate was unhurt.
Bush flipped pancakes, too. The Texas governor also toured a crime lab and stopped at a bowling alley and a sledding hill — speeding down in a red, white and blue inner tube with 13-year-old twins Lizzy and Laura Saggau of Merrimack.
Gore was out before dawn, shaking hands in the freezing rain outside the Lockheed Sanders plant. Later he met at a nursing home with senior citizens, most of them in wheelchairs, to renew his claim that Bradley's health care plan would replace their Medicaid with $150-a-month vouchers. Bradley maintains, however, that his health care plan would leave in place federal aid that states now get from Medicaid for nursing home care.
Forbes was the only candidate to pass up a picture, refusing to dip his hands into a lobster tank at Fred Daley's fish store in Exeter.
Bradley paid $15.99 for a red snow shovel then cleared the sidewalk in front of Aubuchon Hardware in Concord.
The key to both contests could be independents, who can vote in either primary. Though a majority of New Hampshire independents are actually party-line voters, a small portion of the state's electorate can swing either way, and are being courted by both Bradley and McCain.
That could account for the differences in overnight polls, particularly for the GOP race in which surveys show everything from a McCain lead to an edge for Bush. Polls that include a large sample of independents tend to favor McCain, with Bush doing better when fewer independents are factored in.
Julie Simons caught McCain's act Friday and attended Bradley's town hall yesterday in Hollis.
"I think I've made up my mind," she said. "Bradley just comes across loud and clear. I like his style."
Not by accident, McCain and Bradley sounded similar themes in their last full day of campaigning.
The Democrat said a vote for him would send a message to this country that the old
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ways are finished and the new politics have arrived. The Republican said a vote for him would send a message from New Hampshire to America and the world that we're going to give the government back to the people.
Bush supporters said he would do better than polls suggest, because Republicans were more likely than independents to vote today.
Candidates ignore small New Hampshire town
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, N.H. — George Washington never slept here. President Grover Cleveland was a no-show. And long-time residents of this charming little town say none of the candidates in New Hampshire's primary have visited — not this year, not ever.
"We're kind of forgotten," said Al Krygeris, one of the town assessors.
The town clerk and tax collector, Janice Philbrick, is a semi-official authority on Washington — she is one of only a few dozen adults who have lived here most of their lives.
"I don't remember any candidates coming," said Philbrick, 56. "Not that I'd want to swear on a stack of Bibles."
Incorporated in 1776 — 15 years before the national capital first took shape on a map — this Washington has 26 lakes and ponds, but no other stores. Scattered across 50 hilly square miles are about 850 inhabitants, many of them retirees who settled full time into former vacation homes.
Through five decades of the state's first in the nation primaries, presidential candidates have shown up in nearby Hillsboro and Newport, but not in Washington. Getting here entails at least a 20-minute detour off the nearest major highways in southwestern New Hampshire.
The town common looks straight out of a calendar photograph — the white-clapboard Congregational Church and 213-year-old Town Hall with almost matching steeples, flanked by a few tasteful homes on a snow-covered hillside.
Despite the neglect, most voters here have dutifully followed the campaign that finally ends today.
In 1996, Washington voters went for Bob Dole ahead of President Clinton. As of last fall, the town counted 316 Republicans, 100 Democrats and 241 undecided among its registered voters.
The top municipal official, First Selectman Guy Eaton, said he was a Republican and watched most of the party's televised debates. His choice: John McCain.
"I like the fact that he's a Navy man," said Eaton, 41, an Air Force veteran. "He has the leadership to run the country. We've gone through eight years with a
draft dodger in charge."
The other selectmen, logger Don Dorval and retired DuPont chemist Rufford Harrison, are registered independents and also lean toward McCain.
Dorval said he would like to see McCain get nominated and pick Steve Forbes as his running mate. But he said he doubted the Republicans would prevail.
"Gore will win," said Dorval, 48. "He's smooth and strong. He looks good."
Harrison, the third selectman, was born in Britain and serves on the governing council of the International Table Tennis Federation. He took no interest in local politics until he moved from Delaware to Washington in 1991.
He said he liked McCain despite not sharing the senator's anti-abortion stance. As for George W. Bush, "I can't avoid the thought that he's not a straight shooter."
Harrison said his skepticism covered the whole field.
"They all make these promises," he said.
"And not one of them is going to do any of these things. It's only the Congress that can do it, and most of it won't happen."
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