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debate stage, White House hopefuls are traveling to states that have never before received attention from presidential campaigns at this stage of the game. Still, showing up in New Hampshire, home of the na- tion’s first primary, matters a great deal, given the state’s long tradition of wanting to meet and vet the candidates personally. And there are side benefits for campaigns: Inviting a Dem- ocrat to an event keeps the campaign on their radar, even if that person doesn’t attend. The event can bring local news coverage, and in between public appearances, there’s an op- portunity to schmooze with the party’s poobahs backstage. Among the top-tier, Warren is the most frequent visitor to the state. According to New England Cable News, she’s done 36 events in New Hamp- shire, compared with 26 for Sanders and just 14 for Biden. Advantage:Warren. In- deed, some New Hampshire Democrats said that it seems like Warren is in the state all the time (it doesn’t hurt that it’s only about an hour by car from Cambridge to the border). Both Warren and Sanders had multiple appearances in the state last week, but it’s worth noting that Biden’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden, is also a frequent visitor to New Hampshire and is scheduled to return on Mon- day. The former vice president is due in the state at the end of the week. Honorablemention:Former representative John Delaney of Maryland. Although Delaney is still polling at either zero or 1 percent in the state, the same NECN tracker shows he has done 111 different events, more than anyone else in the field.

Campaignstaff andorganization Technological advance- ments aside, campaigns still need people to run phone banks, write letters to the edi- tor, and help run campaign events. That’s where a strong infrastructure and staff comes into play.

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In terms of big-name en- dorsements, Biden has them, including two former New Hampshire members of Con- gress, a former governor, a state senator, and a former US ambassador. But he doesn’t have the pas- sionate supporter base that Warren and Sanders can claim. Warren has largely built her team from scratch, while Sand- ers, the 2016 New Hampshire primary winner, started with a base of supporters who have remained loyal and organized since the last primary. At a re- cent Sanders event in the Lakes Region, for example, many of those attending said they had been devoted followers of the candidate for years. Advantage: Sanders. Al- though Warren is making a lot of strides in building her orga- nization, Sanders still has the advantage here. He has the

largest staff, number of campaign offices, and volunteer committees. Honorable mention:Sena- tor Cory Booker of New Jersey. He is punching well above his weight with local endorse- ments, including Jim Demers, who guided Barack Obama through the state in 2008, plus there are two state senators and eight state representatives on the New Jersey Democrat’s team. That list of supporters in the Legislature is more robust than any other Democrat running for president.

Luringindependentvoters One of the biggest factors in the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary will be voters who don’t even consider themselves members of the party. Independent (technical- ly undeclared) voters make up 43 percent of the state’s elec-

torate and can choose to take a Democratic or Republican ballot in the February primary. These independent voters helped fuel Sanders’ win in the 2016 primary, but so far polling suggests they are going elsewhere. Advantage: Biden. The Suf- folk/Globe poll had Biden win- ning this group with 19 percent, compared with Sanders at 15 percent and Warren with 13 percent. Honorablemention:Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld has struggled in his primary challenge to President Trump, but if he could per- suade Republican-leaning independent voters to cast their ballot in protest of Trump, he could be an outsized factor. In 1992, for example, Pat Buchan- an’s Republican primary challenge to President George H.W. Bush may have altered the out-

come on the Democratic side due to the number of indepen- dents who opted to cast ballots in the GOP race.

Hometownadvantage Six out of seven times that a candidate from New England has run in the New Hampshire primary, they have won the contest. But in 2020, there will be two major candidates from neighboring states: Warren and Sanders. The last time this happened was 2004, when Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts de- feated Governor Howard Dean of Vermont. The win set Kerry off to the nomination, and Dean never recovered. (The only local loser of a New Hamp- shire primary was Senator Ed- ward Kennedy of Massachu- setts, when he ran against incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980.) Advantage:None.It’satie between Warren and Sanders. It should be no surprise polls show Warren does better among voters along the state’s Massachusetts border, and Sanders fares better among voters in the north and west near Vermont. And although there are more New Hamp- shire residents who are in the Boston media market, Sanders is already familiar with the state and the state with him. Honorablemention:Repre- sentative Seth Moulton of Mas- sachusetts. The Salem Demo- crat represents a congressional district that borders New Hampshire. His future campaign schedule suggests he

plans to double down on cam- paigning in the state. But he has yet to make a debate stage, so it remains unclear whether he will still be in the race by the time New Hampshire votes.

Sellingtheirelectability Admittedly, electability is hard to quantify months before an election. However, when poll after poll finds this to be the No. 1 quality that Demo- crats want in a candidate, it’s also hard to ignore the role it will play in the primary. Almost every candidate includes in their pitch why they can beat Trump. For example, while in Franconia last week, Warren told voters she could lure Trump supporters by fo- cusing on economic inequality. Indeed, the latest Suffolk/ Globe poll says that Warren, at least for now, is doing the best job convincing voters of this. Among those respondents who said nominating someone who can beat Trump is more important that nominating a candidate who agreed with them on the issues, Warren leads the group with 20 percent support, compared to Biden at 15 percent and Sanders at 12 percent. Advantage: Warren. This might be surprising given that Biden typically does better in this category in other polls and Warren has been dogged by the perception that she cannot beat Trump. Honorablemention:None. Senator Kamala Harris of Cali- fornia and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg both had double-digit support among respondents who said the most important thing is finding a candidate who can beat Trump. It’s up for debate whether a pure outsider like New York entrepreneur An- drew Yang or Governor Steve Bullock of Montana, who has won three times statewide in a red state that Trump has won, can convince voters they have a better chance.

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troller unit, some of the heavi- est parts of the roughly 5-kilo- gram device, is positioned on a person’s back and emits a sub- tle whirring noise. Sensors on the user’s thighs and abdomen are programmed to detect motion, Kim said. Us- ing a pulley system that works with a user’s internal muscles, the battery-equipped suit deliv- ers support to the hip joint, all in a nearly instantaneous calcu- lation. Exosuits work by reducing a person’s energy consumption. Through testing on a tread- mill, the team discovered that participants who wore the device decreased their metabolic rate by about 9 percent while walking and 4 percent while running. That potentially trans- lates into performance gains for the user, said Philippe Mal- colm, a co-corresponding au- thor on the study. “In theory, that should allow a person to carry extra loads at the same speed, or arrive more rested at the scene,” said Mal- colm, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Researchers in the lab re- cently developed an exosuit to help stroke patients regain mobility in physical therapy, work- ing in collaboration with Re- Walk Robotics, a medical device company, which builds and sells the devices. Other applications are in progress for people suffering from Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis, Kim said. Conor Walsh, a Harvard professor who was the study’s principal investigator, is also developing exosuits to improve safety in industrial settings, such as an automotive factory, where workers might strain their backs lifting heavy ma- chinery. The study was funded by

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two federal agencies, the De- fense Advanced Research Proj- ects Agency and the National Defense Foundation, Walsh said. It was awarded to Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the John A. Paulson School of Engi- neering and Applied Sciences, as well as the University of Ne- braska Omaha. Researchers said they ulti- mately want to improve exosuits’ designs to make them user-friendly and widely available to the public. To achieve the exoskeleton’s dual mobility, the team recon- ciled biomechanical differences between walking and running. When people walk, their legs move back and forth like an inverted pendulum, Mal- colm said. Running creates a motion similar to a spring bouncing up and down. For the exosuit to work, it must accurately determine

whether the person is running or walking before applying the right force at the right time to the user’s hip joint. “If you get it wrong, you can really make it hard for a person to walk,” Walsh said. The wrong identification could result in a user exerting approximately 30 percent more energy. The exosuit’s versatility remains a work in progress. Re- searchers said they hope to de- crease its weight by 2 kilo- grams, an energy- and cost- saving measure. Another goal entails cus- tomizing the device for people’s unique gaits, they said. All individuals have a pecu- liar style of propelling their bodies forward, Kim said. If the suit exerts a more precise force, users could minimize their metabolic energy consumption, he said. And Kim envisions equip- ping the exosuit with other ca- pabilities, including being able to help people climb stairs or jump around. “Maybe, this exosuit needs to carry out all these different activities,” he mused.

Alison Kuznitz can be reached at [email protected].

Exosuit boosts performance

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An exosuit is put in use in Cambridge. The suit, says Jinsoo Kim (left), could help people climb stairs.

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Former vice president Joe Biden (top left), Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have emerged as the top tier of Democratic presidential candidates in the New Hampshire contest, according to the latest Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll.

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