The following two stories were submitted to us 
by David Pugh, a reporter for UPI.  He is a member of NH-Primary and is 
also covering the New Hampshire presidential primary for UPI.  We 
distribute the two stories to you as we received them. 

 NH Poll: Clinton to serve one term
 MANCHESTER, N.H. May 23 (UPI) - According to a survey of 1,200 New Hampshire
voters released yesterday, President Bill Clinton will not be reelected in
1996. 
 The poll by the independent American Research Group shows while 68 pecent of
Democrats prefer Clinton to other candidates, 53 percent think Clinton will
lose the 1996 election.
 The poll by ARG questioned 600 registered Republicans and 600 Democrats, and
found that Clinton has tremendously strengthened his popularity since the
beginning of the year.
 According to the pollsters, the president was the choice of only 24 percent
of Granite State Democrats just last December. 
 But as potential Democratic challengers to Clinton have dropped from sight,
his popularity has increased, and 68 percent of Democrats would now vote for
him in a hypothetical primary against the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
 Both Jackson and Clinton had nearly 100 percent name recognition in the
poll, but only five percent of the Democrats polled said they "firmly"
supported Jackson versus 38 percent who said they firmly supported Clinton.
Sixty-three percent of those polled said they would never vote for Jackson
for president. 
 Thirty percent of the Democrats questioned said they think Clinton will be
reelected in 1996. Only 13 percent of the Republicans questioned said they
thought he would be back for another term in the White House. 
 ARG conducted the poll between May 9 and May 16 from a statewide pool of
registered voters. Twenty-nine percent of the Democrats queried in the survey
had not decided who they would vote for.


By David Pugh 
Poll: Dole GOP choice in N.H.
 MANCHESTER, N.H., May 23 (UPI) - Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of
Kansas is the leading choice for president among New Hampshire Republicans,
according to a new poll released yesterday.
 The non-partisan American Research Group of Manchester found that Dole was
the favorite of 44 percent of the 600 Republican voters questioned earlier
this month.
 The pollsters questioned both Republicans and Democrats and found that most
of those surveyed think that President Bill Clinton will only serve one term
in office.
 In the field of the nine Republican candidates, Dole has a commanding lead
over the other presidential hopefuls.
 Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan was favored by 13 percent of those
polled, followed by Texas Sen. Phil Gramm who was favored by 7 percent.
 The poll shows that nearly 100 percent of the Republicans queried recognized
Buchanan's and Dole's names, while only 28 percent knew of longshot
conservative talk show host Alan Keyes' presidential intentions.
 Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter has picked up some name recognition in the
past few months, as 75 percent of those questioned knew who he was versus 37
percent at the beginning of the year.
 Although nearly half of the Republican voters questioned said they would
vote for Dole, the survey found that only 12 percent would choose him as
their next president if they could name anyone to fill the job.
 Twenty-seven percent of the GOP voters surveyed were undecided, and the poll
had a margin of error of 4 percent.
 
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Not all of the activity in the state has been on the part of Republican 
candidates.  Today, local radio news reports that the Democrats have their 
first declared candidate for the New Hampshire presidential primary.

Wire services in New Hampshire are reporting on a challenge to President 
Bill Clinton in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire.  The following 
story, with the dateline of Concord, was reported on WTSN-AM radio in 
Dover today (May 25th):

	"An 87-year-old labor lawyer and minister from Michigan says he 
will challenge President Clinton in New Hampshire's 1996 Democratic 
Primary.  

	"As for his age, John Safron said yesterday in Concord he had 
little trouble painting his two-story House last year while standing on a 
40-foot ladder.

	"Standing in front of the Statehouse, Safron, a Methodist 
Minister, said he wants to cut military spending by two-thirds and create 
a $200 Billion works program like the ones President Franklin Delano 
Roosevelt established to get the country out of the Great Depression.

	"Safron represented automobile strikers in 1933, ran 
unsuccessfully for the Michigan State Legislature in 1938 and came in 
last of seven in the 1982 Democratic primary for Governor.

	"Between 1979 and 1980, he was a county commissioner."
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