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McCain won 48% of the vote to Bush's 30% in the New Hampshire primary, the first primary held, giving his campaign a great boost of energy, volunteers, and donations.
Bauer and Hatch campaigned on a traditional Republican platform of opposition to legalized abortion and reductions in U.S. taxes[?]. Keyes had a far more conservative platform, calling for the elimination of all federal taxes except tariffs. Steve Forbes campaigned on making the federal income tax non-graduated, an idea he called the flat tax. Other candidates included: political activist Gary Bauer[?], businessman Steve Forbes[?], Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, minister Alan Keyes[?], former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander[?], former Red Cross director Elizabeth Dole, Ohio Congressman John Kasich[?], and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
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