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Every presidential primary campaign depends on a core of die-hard supporters across the state.

Six months before voting day, the candidates are focused on building that base.

How they approach the task is not simply a question of technique or money.

Their methods speak to the candidates? assumptions about the way citizens participate in the political process.

New Hampshire Public Radio?s David Darman looked at the campaigns of John Edwards, Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean.

And he found three different very different approaches