Posted on 12/02/2011 8:11:34 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
MERRIMACK, N.H. — Jon Huntsman has staked his presidential bid on doing well in New Hampshire. With few exceptions, the former two-term governor of Utah has campaigned exclusively in the Granite State. Two months ago, he moved his national campaign headquarters to Manchester, and he’s beginning to make some inroads there.
Huntsman explained his strategy this way: He wants to avoid the meteoric rises and flameouts of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain.
“I don’t want 15 minutes of fame,” Huntsman told reporters at the Merrimack Town Hall. “I want a sustained rise that isn’t fickle and isn’t short-lived, and in order to get that, you’ve gotta lay a substantive groundwork here in New Hampshire, which is what we’re doing.”
And the numbers show that Huntsman is getting just what he wants: a slow and steady rise in support. University of New Hampshire polling for the last two months in a row found 8 percent of likely voters in the Republican presidential primary saying they would vote for him. That’s the most he’s gotten so far. It puts him in fourth place, behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
The UNH poll finds that most voters have yet to line up behind a candidate, and that’s the case with many of the 70 people who showed up to hear Huntsman speak at the Merrimack Town Hall on Nov. 28. Voters like Chris Mauser, who said she’s still considering all the candidates.
“I haven’t even begun to make up my mind yet,” Mauser said.
Most people still don’t know who Huntsman is. Lousie Charney is among those who want to know more.
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oh, goodie, we have them fighting among themselves, just as we'd planned....s/Barack
WOW an actual conservative Republican that will do anything to keep Obama from a second term....my kind of guy/gal But I will NOT vote for ANY “third party” candidate.
And as long as people have that attitude and accept the dog food the GOP gives them, you will keep getting these kind of candidates.
It’s time to say, “Enough is Enough!” McCain was the last straw.
But WHO is the dog food that the GOP is giving us this time round? There have been so many front-runners that I am losing count. It makes the head spin.
I didn’t need any pointers from the RNC, or the TV talking-heads, or the newspaper columnists, or the talk-radio hosts, to come to the conclusion that I didn’t want Mitt Romney to win the nomination, and that I wanted Jon Huntsman in the White House.
Huntsman hasn’t exactly endeared himself to the establishment with his bold stance on Too-Big-To-Fail banks. So, do the GOP still want to spoon-feed us Romney, do you think?
Oh, yeah. I forgot about his amnesty position. Just when I was trying to warm up to him as an alternative.
Jeesh. Who am I going to be back to, Bachmann?
Argh.
Santorum is a big-government, play-along conservative with authoritarian social leanings, which is not the kind of guy NH would go for.
That said, he’s got to be in the mix for considering who’s the best of this sorry bunch.
Here’s another poll on the GOP race that just got started, so the numbers are very skewed right now. Everyone can forward it around to anyone planning on voting in the Republican GOP primary or caucus, in an attempt to get a larger and more representative voting base:
http://micropoll.com/t/LEzBOZFlnc
Here’s another poll on the GOP race that just got started, so the numbers are very skewed right now. Everyone can forward it around to anyone planning on voting in the Republican GOP primary or caucus, in an attempt to get a larger and more representative voting base:
http://micropoll.com/t/LEzBOZFlnc
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