GOP New Hampshire Primary debate tonight on ABC at 9 PM et [LIVE THREAD]

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[katiedidit1]

GOP New Hampshire primary debate tonight on ABC at 9pm ET

By Nate, on January 7th, 2012

Tonight will mark the first of two debates this weekend focused on the New Hampshire Republican primary. This evening's debate will take place at Saint Anselm College and is sponsored by ABC News, Yahoo! and WMUR. Sunday morning will feature a GOP debate broadcast on NBC at 9am ET (yes, am) but look for more details on that later today.

Air Time: Saturday, January 7th at 9pm ET / 6pm PT on ABC

Live Stream: WMUR and Yahoo! News

Participants: Santorum, Romney, Paul, Perry, Gingrich, Huntsman

Report from WMUR:

[MissMagnolia]

What is most wrong is that they're not giving him but few chances to use the mike.

It has been pre-determined that he is irrelevant and he's being treated as such.

[The Cajun]

I am really tuning out *Willard* and his weaselese cadence.
Makes my skin crawl.

[Gator113]

We will disagree.

[nutmeg]

And Sawyer is drug addled. I wonder if she needs help to her limo after.

LOL, I was wondering the same. Diane is one strange bird...

[4Liberty]

thank you!

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Gov. Perry had a good start to his answer on energy...then he goes off the rails. Wind??? Solar??? THEY DO NOT WORK!!!

[onyx]

Yes, Perry and Newt.

[Jane Long]

Ugghhh...if I hear Huntsman say he ‘has a record” one more time :( Blathertime.

[katiedidit1]

RitaOK, thought about that today. It would be great if Perry just threw his support to Newt. He just isnt going anywhere in the polls.

[jeltz25]

perhaps. they’ve also been very unhelpful to us in ways the public is not aware of.

[Prokopton]

Santorum is BORING.

I could never quite put my finger on why I don't care for him and you nailed it for me.

Wow, you guys are DEEP!

[Girlene]

I missed the part about unions with Santorum.....did ROmney just say eliminate taxes on all savings including capital gains? Santorum suggested reducing corporate taxes to 17%, I think, and streamling taxcode to a few basic deductions.

Perry - Texas is a model of how to reduce regulations, streamline taxes. Put people back to work developing energy. If Right to work law is passed in New Hampshire, it will become a magnet for jobs in the NE.

[Baynative]

Newt is going to have to go on the record and declare that he doesn't buy global warming hoax ...LOUDLY, CLEARLY and REPEATEDLY.

If he doesn't he can count on a lot of no shows come voting day if he is somehow nominated.

[independent in tx]

Santorum just looks too green and nervous. The only two I like are Newt and Rick (Perry).

[sockmonkey]

But should Texas, e.g., have to recognize a same-sex marriage performed in Massachusetts?

We don't, but we sure have had our share of gays married in other states, to include transgendered ones, trying to get divorces in TX...to in effect set a precedent to force us to recognize gay marriages from other states.

[LostInBayport]

Sorry but to me Romney is far more boring than Santorum.

I nominate Huntsman to that club. He just gave an answer and all I heard was Charlie Brown's teacher.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Second best day of my life in Iraq was when I moved out of the Green Zone. The best was when I boarded the C130 knowing I'd never be going back.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Diane Sawyer is asking for a BIG PICTURE of prosperity...

I'd like to see one of these candidates tell her, "Well, Diane, I'd like to bring prosperity back to America by firing your hero Hussein...of course, instead of being a happy drunk on the air, you'll be a sad drunk."

Video of Diane Sawyer apparently drunk on the air as she cover Hussein's Immaculation

[KJC1]

Romney pandering to the moderators: “Nothing wrong with the questions you are asking”

Barf!

[Windflier]

Although it’s too late I think he was saying if he were there now, not a year from now. He was trying to make the point that Obama has thrown all our sacrifices away for political expediency.

Not to diss the man, but I think it's unfortunate that Perry's supporters are more capable of explaining his positions than he is.