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Posted on 01/10/2012 12:21:37 AM PST by Lazlo in PA
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — Voters in the tiny New Hampshire village famed for casting the first ballots in the nation’s first presidential primary have found themselves in a tie between Republicans Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman.
Nine ballots were cast in New Hampshire’s Dixville Notch just after midnight.
Romney and Huntsman received two votes each. Coming in second with one vote apiece were Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.
For the Democrats, President Barack Obama received three votes.
The nine residents who cast their ballots include three registered Republicans and two registered Democrats. Four other voters haven’t declared a party.
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All Democrat voters in NH should cast their primary ballot for ABO, (Anyone But Obama)!!! Vote for Hillary Clinton or any other Democrat except Barack Hussein “Muslim Brotherhood” Obama!!!
A confirmed RINO poser and a Democrat Plant. Plus, apparently illegal votes for Obama....gotta laugh....Democrat strategy to over-vote...
Frankly, I think I’d prefer Huntsman to Romney. Huntsman arguably has the best tax plan of any candidate, and unlike Gingrich, he didn’t wait until he was getting killed in the Iowa polls to announce it.
Of all the disappointments I’ve had in this year’s field, it’s been on taxes. It was just four years ago, in a FAR more hostile environment for conservatives, that virtually EVERY Republican candidate, Romney included, was proposing very significant tax reform or at least tax cuts. Now they’ve all retreated - no candidate other than the erstwhile Cain came out in favor of a non-optional flat tax, only a few are in favor of eliminating the capital gains and dividend taxes, and only Huntsman would really simplify the tax code in any meaningful way.
I was particularly disappointed in Bachmann on this issue. She must be the first tax attorney I’ve ever heard from who did NOT have a strong opinion on simplifying the tax code and ending double taxation, and I know quite a few tax attorneys.
Ain’t that the truth. They may be two of the worst possible states for picking a Republican nominee. Is it any wonder why most of the campaign consists of “culture war” red meat and pandering to Iowa farm subsidies?
I would just like to see NH get spanked by all the other states via trump the “NH must be first” BS. I would like to see only closed primaires go first.
Isn't that Bob Beckel?
The best Anti-RINO ads would be to re-air some of Mitt’s own campaign commercials from Massachusetts. I’m mitt rino and I approve this message. Antigun and pro-infanticide. Let him dispell his own words.
The system is this way because the people in charge of the system want it to be this way. It’s not about entitlement. You need small states to start the process so that candidates can make mistakes and learn. Small states also are less expensive to campaign in. There are plenty of people who like Rick Santorum here, as an example, and he’d be a non-entity if Florida were the state with the first primary. The candidates like it this way and the two major political parties like it this way.
You’re so right.
I’d vastly prefer the perverts and grifters of San Francisco, New York, LA, Boston and Chicago to do the job.
Then we’d really have something to vote for.
If he didn’t go on that “anti-science” rip over global warming, I might be considering him.
But you’re right, even after all his moderate pandering, he’s still preferable to Romney.
So far, the entire field has been very weak on the issue of the federal budget, taxation, spending, Wall Street corruption, the out-of-control Federal Reserve and other financial/fiscal issues. They’re all off in the weeds on such trivial nonsense, it boggles the mind that they cannot see the elephant in the room that we’re approaching a point where, once we’re in a little more debt, we have no path forward but those similar to Greece, Italy and Spain. It further astounded me that Perry couldn’t think of three agencies to cut to nothing when there’s a list a dozen long. If you can’t remember one on stage, then name another, fer cryin’ out loud. Just start swinging an axe in DC, and fast.
Ron Paul appears to get the idea... sometimes... but then he gets a hair up his nose and he’s chasing butterflies out into the deep grass again.
Thad McCotter gave the only voice to the fiscal & financial issues early in the campaign, but he was hazed out rather early (and deservedly so - he has no executive experience). Huntsman appears as of this past week to “get it” WRT to the “TBTF” bankers.
I agree that Bachman was a huge disappointment on taxation.
Agreed. I’m talking about Huntsman out not so much as an endorsement (though I really would prefer him to Romney) as a way of pointing out the maddening situation we’re in, where the one self-professed “moderate” in the race has one of the most conservative tax plans. It’s maddening because it isn’t even that conservative compared to what was proposed only a few years ago.
same here
What is so special about a north east small state anyway?
What is so special about some little near Canada village when it comes voting?
For me all of this starts at SC.
yeah, he definitely is a liberal on some issues (not all), but at least he’s honest about it...unlike Mitt. If the real mitt said his ‘positions’ then we wouldn’t even see him polling 10% nationally.
I agree that he could be considered to ba taking some of the Romney vote. I’ll admit to not quite understanding your Competence
Liberal vs Consevative point though.
I don’t recall seeing the term ‘Competence Liberal’ before.
Good points.
Thanks for your post. I was ranting on another thread about this communist/ socialist money scheme these states have. I cannot see a Constitutional basis for it. In fact, the process reeks of socialism and stark money grabbing. Rotate the early primaries, or scrap the communist crap. Since when does someone in Iowa get to have more say so about Presidents than any other citizen. Money, money... and shameless “pay attention to me” first graders.
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