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

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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:

[Goldie Lurks]

“Again the media is picking the nominee,,,grrrrrrrr”

That’s for sure.

[RegulatorCountry]

< =i OVER THE TOP ACCOMPLISHMENT. NEXT?

Let me guess ...

WINNING!!!

With all due pardon to Charlie Sheen, of course.

[onyx]

David Gregory in Meet The Press’ normal time slot.

Check your local station.

NBC - my area: 8:00AM Central = DirecTV

[Reddy]

reaganaut- standing with you against voting for mitt.

Will NEVER happen.

[Leep]

Romney won...hahaha..oh wait they were serious...ah ahahha

[rintense]

If Perry can generate ideas, he has no business being President.

[exit82]

Matalin not only married the despicable Carville, but allowed him to breed.

She and Donna Brazile are vomit inducing.

Mary should have been a ventriloquist. She speaks with her mouth hardly opening.

[NoPrisoners]

Santorum is missing something.

Newt said Santorum was more like a junior partner, and I'm inclined to believe it. Santorum looked very uncomfortable and out of his depth at times. A few more years of seasoning (like say after 8 years of a Gingrich presidency ;) ) and he would be ready.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Anybody still watching ABC? Jake Tapper just got off the best line ever...called out Ron Paul for never Attacking Myth. Tapper said that if you unzip the Ron Paul costume, you will find one of the Romney sons.

Btw., Mary Matlin... Stop the botoxing!!! She can barely speak!

[txhurl]

You just know they would if they could.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

You just gotta love he took the ABC liberals to task right to their faces.

Newt is fearless.

Awesome defined.

[TADSLOS]

Donna Brazile just actually told us what the dems think- Romney is the weakest candidate!

[Recovering_Democrat]

Is the SOUND going out on everyone else’s television, too?

[rintense]

If Perry can’t generate ideas, he has no business being President.

[Cruising For Freedom]

I’ve been following this election only as time permits. I don’t know much about Huntsman; I do know that he is considered a RINO, but not why.

Tonight was my first real look at “that 1% generic guy” and I thought Huntsman gave some of the more intelligent answers in the debate.

Romney is just too smart. He won the debate, not due to substance, but because he knows exactly how to say the right words to fan the conservative flames a bit in everyone’s heart. He scares the urine out of me; I wouldn’t be surprised if he were a sociopath.

Newt was my favorite — he clearly has brains, but he used them to express substance, not on empty populist rhetoric.

I’ve been critical of Perry, but other than that Iraq war commentary, he did very well in this debate.

Santorum was so-so.

[rodguy911]

China holds about $1 trillion of our debt. And they are running a huge trade surplus with the US. If we don't stand up to them, most US jobs along with our industries will be sent to China. I have been to Beijing. The West is exporting whole factories with the latest technology to China. Because of their low wages, there is no way we compete with them, especially when they manipulate their currency and steal our intellectual property. The reality is that we can't continue with the status quo. China's trade surplus with the US is about 160 bilion. It has been declining recently due to economic conditions in the US. They must make up the loss of demand domestically or somewhere else.

Excellent stuff here kabar.

My entire industry has been given to the Chinese. Simply because they responded the quickest at the best prices and after several years, better quality.

They are tough competition. And for small manufacturers like me we are 90% dependent on them for supplying us with materials to build with.

I don't see much change coming in the future.... We create all the technology and they steal it all from us.

[CainConservative]

Conservative Republicans Debate Performance Tonight

1. Newt and Santorum

3. Perry

Democrats Debate Performance Tonight

1. Willard

2. Huntsman

3. Paul

[Yaelle]

I’m still impressed with Santorum too. People call him boring. That could be good in a president.

[WeatherGuy]

It's HILIAROUS that ABC is pretending that Donna Brazile is the only Democrat on the broadcast.

THEY'RE ALL LIBERALS UP THERE, LOL.

[BobL]

“Nah, “Jak se Mas” is more like it..are you sure you’re in Texas?”

You might want to do a bit of research regarding Governor Perry’s ties to Mexico, and his statements to that effect.

Sorry.