New Hampshire Today, Sept. 4

In New Hampshire today many Democratic presidential staffers are sleeping in after a long weekend of preparing candidate visits while Republican staffers are up early and ready for tomorrow's debate in Durham.

Yesterday a number of candidates attended the Labor Day parade in Milford, the Union Leader and Nashua Telegraph report.

The Telegraph also reports on Barack Obama's dinner with small dollar donors in Nashua.

Campaigning in the state, Mitt Romney jokes that if Fred Thompson needs to take more time before he gets in the race, that is fine with him.

The Union Leader reports that disgraced Clinton fund-raiser Norman Hsu also gave money to the New Hampshire Democratic Party and the Democratic Governor John Lynch.

Calendar:

Today:
- 7:30am, John McCain, business leaders breakfast, Manchester
- 8:30am, Barack Obama, restoring trust in government roundtable, Manchester
- 9am, Sam Brownback, New Hampshire Public Radio's "The Exchange", Concord
- 10:30am, Brownback, social security conversation, Nashua
- Noon, Brownback, social security discussion, Manchester
- 4pm, Brownback, meet and greet, Salem
- 6:30pm, McCain, town hall, Bow
- 7pm, Mike Huckabee, house party, Durham
- 7pm, Brownback, social security discussion, Durham
- 7pm, Tom Tancredo, town hall, Londonderry