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New Hampshire voters can check out both President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney on the same day later this week.

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President Barack Obama will stop in Windham and Rochester when he visits New Hampshire this weekend.

The campaigns of President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney were touting support from women today.

The Obama campaign released a report saying that the President’s policies enable greater access to healthcare for New Hampshire women.

Meanwhile, ‘Women for Mitt Romney’ hosted an event in Nashua to discuss welfare reform.

Four years ago, President Obama carried women voters by 13 percent. His pitch to women this election has focused on the healthcare overhaul.  

As the campaign season gears up, celebrities and politicians making political stump speeches in the state will become increasingly commonplace. The latest of these was the host of the kids television series Bill Nye the Science Guy. He visited New Hampshire Monday, discussing his support for President Obama and calling for more investment in education.

Bill Nye educated a generation of kids in the nineties about science with his hundred episode TV series.

President Barack Obama is visiting New Hampshire next week, where he will speak at a high school in Durham.

Obama is scheduled to speak at noon Monday at Oyster River High School, in the gymnasium.

The president last visited the state, speaking at Nashua Community College about the economy with a focus on American energy. He visited Manchester in November, to discuss his jobs bill.

Obama carried New Hampshire in the 2008 general election, but the state is expected to be heavily contested this fall.