The campaign will try to grab the attention of state voters with its first television ad campaign. At Sunday's event, campaign staffers set up a camera behind a table of youthful Keyes supporters. They turned on a Klieg light when their candidate stepped to the podium. At the same moment, the Keyes supporters stood up, waved their large signs, and cheered loudly, creating the effect of an audience-wide accolade.

Later in the evening, the campaign set up the camera outside the door to the stadium, soliciting "spontaneous" commentary of the event from young-looking Republicans who passed by.

Webber said that young Keyes supporters will help distribute more than 50,000 pamphlets in the weeks ahead. Many of the supporters are recruits from small area colleges, where Keyes always proves a big draw.

The Bush campaign will do much of the same--but in grander style. They're renting an airline hangar and filling it with cots, hoping to lure young volunteers up to New Hampshire in the final days of the primary.

"We have got a big youth organization," said Mindy Tucker, Bush's press secretary.

Things are a bit less complicated for the Democrats in the state. Though the latest statewide polls give Bradley a five point margin of victory, a likely Gore win in the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 24 will bring him up in the polls come the first of February, political analysts believe. With the exception of fringe candidates like Lyndon H. LaRouche, Bradley and Gore are directly competing.

The Harvard Push

Harvard Republicans who support Bush will spend the next two weekends in the state going from door to door. About a dozen have volunteered to spend their entire intersession with the campaign.