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Campaign Journal: Manchester, N.H.

Published by Tracie Mauriello on .

Mitt Romney has opened a commanding lead in New Hampshire, according to results of a poll released late last night.

Forty-one percent of likely voters in the GOP primary favor the former Massachusetts governor. Ron Paul came in second with 11 percent followed by Jon Huntsman, with 9 percent. Sixteen percent remain undecided, according to the poll by the Political Research Center of Boston’s Suffolk University.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich fell from second place since the last Suffolk University poll in mid-December.

Only one candidate – Romney – can win both Iowa and New Hampshire, said David Paleologos, the center’s director.

Mr. Romney’s support is driven by older New Hampshire voters, according to poll results.

“They have lived through good and bad economies and appear to believe that Mitt Romney is the right Republican leader for the times,” Mr. Paleologos said.

Fifty percent of respondents said they are unlikely to change their minds. Huntsman – the only candidate with feet on the ground in New Hampshire now – has the most loyal following, with 76 percent saying they were unlikely to change their minds.

The poll was conducted Friday and Saturday. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.

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Campaign Journal: Deerfield, N.H.

Published by Tracie Mauriello on .

It’s been a long lonely road for Jon Huntsman who has been winding is way through the Granite State mining votes while the rest of the GOP field is shoring up votes in Iowa before Tuesday’s caucuses there.

“New Hampshire, being the first primary state, provides that early punch that is unlike any other. … This sets the stage,” Mr. Huntsman told a gaggle of reporters after a campaign event at Deerfield Town Hall.

“Nothing against Iowa, but it’s a caucus and after a day or two it’s going to be forgotten and the eyes of the world are going to be on New Hampshire,” he said earlier when he addressed a crowd of 100 at a campaign event at Deerfield Town Hall.

An audience tinged with New England pride agreed.

“We’re the first primary state. Iowa is just a caucus,” said Fran Miller, 68, a retired special education teacher from Deerfield. “In a caucus, people get together and maybe there’s peer pressure going on. Voting is the real thing. You make up your mind yourself, and we take it seriously.”

Mr. Huntsman takes New Hampshire seriously, too. That’s why he’s devoted New Year’s Day – and the last few days of 2011, too – traversing the state attending house parties, county Republican committee hearings and campaign events.

His voice sounded worn as he began his standard stump speech in Deerfield – his third public event of the day -- but Mr. Huntsman seemed reinvigorated during the Q&A session.

One man wanted to know whether Mr. Huntsman plan for a balanced budget goes far enough. A revenue-neutral plan won’t pay down the deficit, he said.

Mr. Huntsman responded a plan has to do more than make fiscal sense; it has to be able to pass Congress. His plan calls for eliminating loopholes and reducing tax rates.

“You’ve got to be able to take to Congress the two, three or four things that you’re going to get done … and they can’t be pie-in-the-sky things that just don’t stand a chance, but rather ideas that you know you can get through Capitol Hill with a little leadership,” he said.

He ticked off items on his list that fit the bill: repealing the Dodd-Frank bill, repealing President Obama’s health care plan, making the country energy-independent and reforming the tax system.

Mostly, the former Utah governor stuck to his standard stump speech, calling for term limits and spending cuts, and touting his foreign policy experience as a former ambassador to China.

He took a swipe at Iowa frontrunner Mitt Romney, saying the former Massachusetts governor is too beholden to Congress and Wall Street to effectuate change.

“If you’re supported by half of Congress, you think you’re going to be able to bring about the kind of reform that’s needed in Congress these days? No way, no how. Do you think you’re going to be able to fix the banks that are ‘too big to fail’ if you’re the largest recipient of funds from Wall Street? No way, no how,” he said. “This nation does not need a status-quo president. We’re already in the tank.”

Mr. Huntsman urged Deerfield Republicans to prevent that.

“When New Hampshire speaks, everybody pays attention. Everybody listens,” he said. “You have the ability to change this nation’s direction by the vote that you cast.”

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High spirits at Santorum IA HQ

Published by Laura Olson on .


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As Rick Santorum hit the road for northwestern Iowa campaign stops today following his appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," volunteers were busy dialing voters from his suburban Des Moines state headquarters.

While this afternoon's crew was considerably smaller than the 50 volunteers that packed the small business-park office on Saturday, they still needed to make use of the additional phone lines that were added late last week as Santorum's poll numbers ballooned.

"He's one of the best candidates out there," touted one girl as she chatted up a random voter.
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Campaign aides declined to make the phone-bankers available for interviews in between their requests for support.

But they did say that online hits have skyrocketed on the campaign web page, and that fundraising numbers also have seen a bump.

Part of the control is now out of their hands, and resting on the abilities of their caucus captains and other supporters to get voters to their designated locations on Tuesday evening.

Still, they appeared to be riding high following Saturday evening's final Des Moines Register poll, showing his apparent surge continuing.

As the P-G's Jim O'Toole noted in this morning's overview of the chaotic final days here, that poll still placed Santorum in third, at 15 percent, but if the final two days of polling were broken out, his support climbed to 21 percent.

"Momentum's name is Rick Santorum," said J. Ann Selzer, the Register's pollster, in the highly anticipated DMR report.

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5 Strange Lucky Charms People Actually Use

As I haven't been sensation fortunate thomas sabo charm club   lately, and my standard "Pave my personal Destiny" collection was over a leave of absence, I checked up some in the "luck rituals" and "lucky charms" that could possibly alter my luck a tad for the day.

Turns on the marketplace are so really numerous fortunate charms on  ed hardy  the marketplace near to the net, using the simplest of purposes (to take you luck), in the direction of the looniest. a number of them we previously know; although some are just away from this world.

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The photo says its all. If you're sensation unlucky although thomas sabo earrings in the copulation department, then this trinket is for you. The website in which I saw this says it absolutely was possibly although in the 70s merely because in the actual attributes of equally the person & women, reminiscent in the trends through that year.

Money Tree

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As it says near to the site, it will require to not be baffled using the Nazi Swastika, however it obtains factors for fascinating for me. The Vedic Swastik could possibly be the mark of Ganpathi, the lord of remarkable fortune. once more an extra "general" use fortunate charm that you just might want to purchase. They don't take place affordable these fortunate charms!

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