article_snippet.sent: POLITICAL CROSSROADS:
article_snippet.sent: Hanover, New Hampshire is a frequent presidential primary debate site, hosting Democrats in 2007 and Republicans (pictured) in 2011 .
article_snippet.sent: In October 2011 Dartmouth hosted a memorable Republican primary debate that included now-forgotten names like Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain.
article_snippet.sent: Four years earlier it was the Democratic Party that took over Hanover for a day, back when Barack Obama's was just finding Barack Obama's voice.
article_snippet.sent: It was in May 1987 – almost as early in the cycle as today's candidates find today's candidates – when Sen. Gary Hart's campaign imploded during a press conference in the Hanover Inn, just steps from the Dartmouth College green.