Kerry redeploys his forces for February primaries

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By Patrick Healy ([e-mail]), Boston Globe, 1/23/2004

Senator John F. Kerry's campaign is laying the groundwork to capitalize on the result of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary by bulking up staff in Arizona, New Mexico, Michigan, and other states with key primaries in February. The Kerry camp is now redeploying scores of field organizers, political strategists, and media advisers to those states from the campaign's successful operation in Iowa, where Kerry won a come-from-behind victory in the caucuses Monday.

Advisers to Kerry say they are hoping for a similar victory in New Hampshire to generate a surge of momentum to overcome Kerry's near-invisibility and low poll numbers in several February primary states. According to last night's Globe/WBZ-TV daily tracking poll, Kerry has expanded his lead in New Hampshire over Howard Dean, 34 percent to 19 percent.

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Bass predicted that Kerry would also benefit from a new endorsement yesterday by US Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, who has been elected to seven terms by South Carolina voters. Hollings hailed Kerry's service in Vietnam and in the Senate, where the two joined forces on budget deficit reduction, and said the Massachusetts senator was "the only fella that I know that really has the courage and the experience in every regard" to defeat President Bush.

He dismissed the idea of a Yankee foundering in the South with a "bah, humbug," and noted that Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee in the 2000 general election. Hollings plans to join Kerry's "veterans' brigade" on the campaign trail in New Hampshire today.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/23/kerry_redeploys_his_forces_for_february_primaries

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1. Yes, we just "received"

lots more help here in Michigan and sign ups for volunteers are surging.

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2. The big endorsements in SC might help a little