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By James Pindell
GLOBE STAFF
What a difference five months
can make in the New Hampshire
presidential primary.
At this point in the 1980 presi-
dential cycle, Senator Edward M.
Kennedy of Massachusetts led in-
cumbent President Jimmy Carter
by a 2-to-1 ratio, but Carter beat
Kennedy by 10 points. In 1984, Sen-
ator Gary Hart was in fifth place on-
ly to go on to stun the political
world with his Granite State win
over a former vice president.
In 1991, Bill Clinton wasn’t even
a candidate at this point. In 2003,
John Kerry was badly lagging How-
ard Dean. And five months before
the 2000 New Hampshire primary,
John McCain was in third place in a
University of New Hampshire poll,
some 33 points behind George W.
Bush. In each of those cases, New
Hampshire eventually helped them
all become the comeback kid —
Clinton surged into second, Kerry

won, and McCain leapfrogged

George W. Bush, beating him by 19

points.

“History tells us that predicting

what will happen five months from

the New Hampshire primary might

be a bad idea,” said Terry Shumaker,

a former chair of the New Hamp-

shire Political Library who backs

current national front-runner Joe

Biden.

The drip-drip of polls and the

endless speculation on cable news

leaves those most interested in poli-

tics constantly playing out who is

up and who is down.

But this loses sight of the fact

that most of the 250,000 or so peo-

ple who will vote in the New Hamp-

shire Democratic primary next year

haven’t begun to pay attention —

and if they have, they could still

change their minds. (Nationally, a

recent poll found only 9 percent of

Democratic primary voters have de-

finitively decided on a favored can-

didate.)

“If New Hampshire has proved

anything, the washing machine

doesn’t really start until a month

before,” Neil Levesque, director of

the New Hampshire Institute of Pol-

itics at Saint Anselm College, said

about the primary, expected to take

place on Feb. 11. “For now it is any-

one’s guess.”

As it stands now, Biden, the for-

mer vice president; Senator Bernie

Sanders of Vermont; and Senator

Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

NEW HAMPSHIRE, Page B

By Gal Tziperman Lotan

GLOBE STAFF

A Boston police officer has been placed on

administrative leave after students from a

Hyde Park charter school said he pushed them

and used racist slurs last week while respond-

ing to a noise complaint at a fast-food restau-

rant.

In a rare move, Police Commissioner Wil-

liam Gross and Suffolk District Attorney Ra-

chael Rollins visited Roxbury Prep High School

on Hyde Park Avenue together Thursday to

hear from students and try to foster trust in po-

lice officers.

“They’re walking away from this encounter

on Friday feeling attacked and racialized and

dehumanized,” Rollins said as she left the

school. “We have to wait and see what the in-

vestigation shows, but the allegations are hate-

filled and fuel distrust of law enforcement.”

The students involved in the incident, who

are in the ninth and 10th grades, were at a Mc-

Donald’s down the street from the school be-

fore classes began Friday, parents said. They

were disruptive and a manager asked them to

get out. When the students did not immediate-

ly leave, someone at the restaurant called po-

lice.

“The police officer was asking them to leave,

but then he changed his attitude and started

pushing the kids and using bad language to-

ward them,” said Rafaela Martinez, whose son

was one the students.

The students say the officer followed them

up the street to the school, used the n-word,

and called them “monkeys.”

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Officer

allegedly

usedracial

slur at kids

Rollins, Gross pay visit

to Hyde Park school

to try to rebuild trust

WarningtoBiden,Sanders,Warren:

InN.H.primary,alotcanstillchange

Granite State’s politics could be very different in another five months — or not

MONICA ALMEIDA/NEW YORK TIMES/FILE 2000

Arizona Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy, in Manchester, N.H., celebrated McCain’s come-from-

behind victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary over Texas Governor George W. Bush (below,

dancing with N.H. Executive Councilor Ruth Griffin at a campaign stop in Milford, N.H.)

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By James Pindell
GLOBE STAFF
As Senator Kamala Harris put it
to a colleague this week, she will
employ a new strategy to try to
jump start her stalling Democratic
presidential campaign.
“I’m f---ing moving to Iowa,” the
campaign confirmed she said be-
fore noticing a reporter.
Harris was joking, but author
Marianne Williamson moved into a
Des Moines condo nearly six
months ago.
There are fewer than five
months before the state-by-state
presidential primary process gets

underway in February. However, in-

creasingly it appears the Democrat-

ic presidential campaign will begin

and essentially end in just one state:

Iowa.

On Friday, nearly every candi-

date in the historically large field

will descend on the state. Four are

currently airing television ads. And,

so far this year, candidates have

been to Iowa, home of the first cau-

cuses, nearly twice as often as they

have been to New Hampshire,

home of the first primary. No other

state comes close.

“Iowa has always played an im-

portant role in the process and is

clearly playing an important role

again this year,” said Jerry Craw-

ford, who chaired the Iowa efforts

for Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, and

John Kerry, and this time is backing

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey.

“There are only going to be about

three people coming out of Iowa

with momentum and what you are

seeing are a lot of people competing

for those three spots.”

This weekend, the Democratic

hopefuls will attend a whopping 90

Iowa events.

If a person in Eastern Iowa had

Friday off, they could easily meet up

with Senator Amy Klobuchar at

9:30 a.m. in Burlington, head to see

former vice president Joe Biden in

Cedar Rapids at noon, catch Harris

in Warterloo at 2 p.m., walk with

Senator Elizabeth Warren in a trail-

er park in North Liberty in the after-

noon, and take a late afternoon riv-

er cruise with Montana Governor

Steve Bullock in Dubuque. Then

they could spend the evening sizing

up former housing secretary Julian

Castro at Coe College, and Senator

Cory Booker and Representative

Tulsi Gabbard at an event back in

Cedar Rapids.

It’s not a one-off. Candidates

IOWA, Page B

By John Hilliard

GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

Setting the stage for a town-gown dispute,

Newton’s mayor said she will press for the city

to acquire approximately 17 acres of Webster

Woods from Boston College through eminent

domain.

“They see this land as critical to their future,

but we know it is critical to ours,” Mayor Ruth-

anne Fuller said in the statement Wednesday.

“After devoting significant time to these conver-

sations, the time has come to move forward.”

The woodland, located at 300 Hammond

Pond Parkway in Chestnut Hill, connects to the

largest section of open public space in Newton,

including the Webster Conservation Area, the

Hammond Pond Reservation, and the Cohen

Conservation Area.

The college will oppose the move, Boston

College spokesman Jack Dunn said in a state-

ment Thursday.

“We are disappointed that Mayor Fuller has

made this unfortunate decision, which we in-

tend to oppose to the fullest extent possible us-

LAND, Page B

Newton wants

to acquire

17 acres from

Boston College

ForDemocraticcandidates,Iowa’slureisstronger

By Kay Lazar

GLOBE STAFF

On their second day of

school, Ipswich High School

students received an e-mail

from the vice principal about a

mysterious vaping-related ill-

ness striking young people

across the country. In Need-

ham, the unsettling topic was

discussed in morning an-

nouncements.

But during the second week

of school in Boston and Chel-

sea, superintendents were still

formulating the best approach

for alerting students and par-

ents.

Amid a cascade of federal

warnings and media coverage

of the illness, there has been no

consistent effort from schools

across Massachusetts to inform

students and parents about

this potentially life-threatening

scourge. While some school of-

ficials have jumped to attention

and rapidly deployed one of the

many tools at their disposal to

alert students and parents

about the imminent danger of

vaping, others have essentially

ignored the news. The informa-

tion teens received from their

schools depended on random

decisions by districts or indi-

vidual administrators.

The delay — or failure — to

take action in some districts is

frustrating public health spe-

cialists, who say they too often

see disparities in health care

and information by ZIP code.

“These are pretty straight-

forward health messages that

don’t need sophisticated sci-

ence to get the word out,” said

Dr. David Christiani, a profes-

sor at Harvard’s School of Pub-

lic Health.

“Parents probably won’t be

reading the [US Centers for

Disease Control and Preven-

tion] website,” he said, “but

they will read the school’s advi-

VAPING, Page B

SchoolvapingactiondiffersbyZIPcode

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POT SALES TUMBLE —Weekly sales of vaporizer

cartridges filled with cannabis oil plunged as concerns
over their health effects rose.B4.

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