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As New Hampshire’s Senate race drew closer to Election Day, President Bush added to the campaign fodder last week by announcing a plan to speed generic drugs to the market. “I think (Bush has) done the right thing,” Rep. John Sununu, R-N.H., his party’s Senate candidate, said Wednesday. “I’ve always been very committed to protecting the integrity of the patent system.” Sununu was referring to the fact that the proposal would close patent loopholes that effectively allow drug companies to renew their drug patents. Colin Van Ostern, press secretary to Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, Sununu’s Democratic opponent, said the Bush proposal...