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...were ready to go Saturday afternoon, But the state's only commercial VHF station, Channel 9, had closed for the weekend. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, a Bush supporter, drove to Manchester to meet with the station manager, his friend; within hours Bush's ads were flickering across TV screens. From Saturday afternoon until the polls closed, the ad ran more than 40 times in the state. It was too late for Dole to come up with a reply...
Bush's point man in the Granite State was Governor John Sununu, a onetime engineer who brought to the New Hampshire campaign the meticulous attention to detail that his former profession demanded. Last summer Sununu screened virtually every one of the 299 Bush precinct captains in New Hampshire. He made sure that thousands of calls to Bush supporters were made every week, keeping the faithful juiced up. Before the Iowa caucuses, he sent out an early warning to Bush workers: expect bad news; don't let it shake your people; use it as a tool to motivate supporters. When Bush...
...over the Bush victory -- and to turn up the heat in an effort to rattle their opponent further. "Dole loves to dish it out," said Atwater, "but if something happens to him, he gets this spoilsport attitude." Appearing on television's MacNeil-Lehrer Report, Atwater bragged about the Bush-Sununu grass-roots strategy and said, "If Senator Dole would try to do the same thing, instead of all this bellyaching, he's probably going to do a lot better." Taking the bait, Bill Brock later growled, "Lee Atwater ought to grow...
Republican Gov. John Sununu, a long-time Seabrook supporter, called the development regrettable, but expressed hope that means can be found "to protect both the ratepayers of New Hampshire and the state's energy supply...
...Although Sununu would not endorse the alternate plan, he told reporters it meets his two main criteria, those of protecting ratepayers and protecting property taxpayers...