POLITICAL BRIEFING

NAME GAME: The plethora of candidates now stumping New Hampshire are not above using anything at hand to get across their message, including cutesy restaurant names in a state that is full of them.

Vice President Dan Quayle has become an integral part of Republican efforts to convince New Hampshire voters that the Bush Administration appreciates the economic hardships many of them are enduring. Appropriately enough, Quayle stopped at the Common Man eatery during a recent campaign swing. Bush’s insurgent challenger, Patrick J. Buchanan, seemed to be trying to convey a message of hope when he met with voters at the Pleasant Restaurant. And Democrat Paul E. Tsongas, tweaking the President for what he called Bush’s failure to live up to 1988 campaign vows, convened a session at--where else--the Promises to Keep restaurant.