Dennis Kucinich is very serious about winning hearts and minds in New Hampshire — and he's going to great lengths to prove it with the locals. For one thing, The Boston Globe reports that he's the first candidate to open an office in the state, with a headquarters in Keene. Furthermore, he's now gotten deeply involved with a group of local activists in Barrington who have been fighting to keep a water-bottling company out of their community. The Associated Press reports that Kucinich has gone a long way in courting the Save Our Groundwater committee, promising to use his chairmanship of the House Domestic Policy Subcommittee — which has oversight over the Environmental Protection Agency — to help them at the federal level. If Kucinich gets a significant vote in New Hampshire, it could have less to do with his stance on Iraq, and more to do with groundwater.