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Campaigning In New Hampshire, Deval Patrick Says The Race Isn't Up To Pollsters, 'It's Up To Voters'

Presidential candidate Deval Patrick serves soup at the Families In Transition-New Horizons soup kitchen and homeless shelter in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Nancy Eve Cohen
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NEPR
Presidential candidate Deval Patrick serves soup at the Families In Transition-New Horizons soup kitchen and homeless shelter in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has wrapped up a three-day visit in New Hampshire. He took his presidential campaign Monday to a homeless shelter and soup kitchen in Manchester.

Patrick did not make any campaign announcements at the Families In Transition-New Horizons nonprofit. If he had, there wasn't a lot of press to cover it.

Instead, he took a tour of the 138-bed shelter, talked with guests, volunteers and staff — and helped serve food.

"Do you want some soup?" Patrick asked each diner. "Be careful, don't burn yourself," he said, as he handed over a bowl.

Despite his late entry to the presidential race, Patrick said it’s not too late until ballots are cast.

"Voters need to be reminded it's not up to wise guys and gals, and pundits and pollsters," he said. "It's up to voters."

Patrick is polling at 1% or less in recent New Hampshire polls.

After this campaign swing, he's heading to his home in the Berkshires for the holidays.

Nancy Eve Cohen is a former NEPM senior reporter whose investigative reporting has been recognized with an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for Hard News, along with awards for features and spot news from the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA), American Women in Radio & Television and the Society of Professional Journalists.

She has reported on repatriation to Native nations, criminal justice for survivors of child sexual abuse, linguistic and digital barriers to employment, fatal police shootings and efforts to address climate change and protect the environment. She has done extensive reporting on the EPA's Superfund cleanup of the Housatonic River.

Previously, she served as an editor at NPR in Washington D.C., as well as the managing editor of the Northeast Environmental Hub, a collaboration of public radio stations in New York and New England.

Before working in radio, she produced environmental public television documentaries. As part of a camera crew, she also recorded sound for network television news with assignments in Russia, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba and in Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia.
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