In a Visit to New Hampshire, Bush Sounds Campaign Themes By ELISABETH BUMILLER, NYTimes

In the evening, at a lucrative drop-by in Old Greenwich, Conn., the state of his birth, Mr. Bush raised $1.1 million for his re-election campaign. The checks brought his fund-raising total to more than $130 million, an amount that dwarfs the $40 million raised and mostly spent by the next-biggest fund-raiser of the 2004 campaign, Howard Dean.

The major no-show at the event was Gov. John G. Rowland, a Republican who is enmeshed in a corruption scandal over free renovations to his lakeside cottage. Bush campaign officials did not say whether they had asked Mr. Rowland to stay away. …

In Old Greenwich, Mr. Bush was introduced by his cousin Debbie Stapleton, the Connecticut finance chairwoman of his campaign, who happily described the president as a Northeasterner with Ivy League roots.

“You may associate him with the Lone Star State, boots and spurs,” Ms. Stapleton said, “but I knew him in his earlier Connecticut days of family gatherings, Yale Bulldogs and Old Blue.”

Mr. Bush recalled his years at Yale as well as members from his class of 1968 who had turned up to see him.