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That afternoon he arrived at the Goffstown fire station, to stand before half a dozen firemen and a spray of cameras. The one thing missing was a crowd. Only about 12 supporters turned up, and some were regulars; two were an affluent Marshalltown, Iowa, couple. His voice thick, his eyes red as the truck behind him, Dole began to recite his catechism, but the words never burn into the people who hear them. "It's about ideas, it's about the future," he told the crowd, neglecting to offer up those specific ideas about the future. "It's about character...
...lips: no new taxes") and at what many saw as his almost bizarre disconnection from the realities of American life, especially life in New Hampshire, which has been in an economic slump since 1989. At the end of the primary campaign, Bush showed up at a "town meeting" in Goffstown in the company of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who presumably was brought along to impress the crowds in a way that the President of the U.S. might not. It was not a shrewd piece of media work: Schwarzenegger the Terminator, an action figure out of Hollywood, proclaimed fantasy at a moment when...
...GOFFSTOWN, N.H.--As Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton prepared to answer a question on the economy during Sunday night's debate at Saint Anselm's College here, a collective groan went up from the crowd of journalists who had gathered in the makeshift press room...
...GOFFSTOWN, N.H.--Everyone played fair and nobody got hurt Sunday night at St. Anselm's college, where the five major Democratic candidates squared off in their last debate before today's primary election. The candidates agreed on most issues, and all voiced their unity in planning to defeat George Bush in November...
...John Connally's first visit of the campaign included a 1978 appearance at Goffstown (pop. 2,272) that attracted precisely no one. Connally will try again, never fear, this time trailed, again never fear, by hordes of reporters, camera crews and Texas sidemen, all of whose expenditures for motel rooms, meals, booze and rental cars juice up the fragile New Hampshire economy each election year to the tune of an estimated $4 million. They will probably spend more than $1 million in the preprimary year...