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Article: New Hampshire's Eyes on Iowa; Unusually Volatile Electorate Just Starting to Focus on '88 Race
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- The Washington Post
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- January 24, 1988
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When Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) returns to New Hampshire
Sunday, Mark Longabaugh, state director of his presidential campaign
here, expects him to attract more attention than usual.
Gephardt has surged to top of the most recent polls in Iowa,
making him momentarily appear as the potential main challenger to
front-running Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis in New Hampshire.
"The Boston media will be all over him like dogs in heat,"
Longabaugh said.
It is one measure of the unpredictability of the Feb. 16 New
Hampshire presidential primary that polls taken in a state halfway
across the country are watched as closely as polls and political
organizing efforts here. Until Iowa ...