8:25 PM- Ron Paul has finished second. That means that the two more moderate candidates on immigration, Huntsman and Gingrich, have finished no higher than third. 8:05 PM- Fox News, CNN, and NBC have all declared Mitt Romney the winner. No surprise there, he came into tonight with a double-digit lead. 8:00 PM- The...
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On Friday in New Hampshire there was a lot of attention directed at an ad released by a group that says it supports Ron Paul. The questions Jon Huntsman’s bona fides as a real American because he adopted an Indian and a Chinese daughter. The ad shows him speaking in Chinese and appearing with...
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I wrote a couple of days ago about Nikki Haley’s anti-immigrant speech during her New Hampshire campaign stop for Mitt Romney. I booed her when she touted her Arizona-style law turning cops into ICE agents According to the Washington Post, she’s no more popular with South Carolinians than she is with me. Her approval...
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The New Hampshire Primary is last political event in 2012 when presidential candidates will have a chance to go one-on-one with voters. Or so it seems. I took the picture on the right outside of a pharmacy in Hollis, a beautiful small New England rural village. Rick Santorum appears to be speaking to a...
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I’m staying at the Radisson Hotel on Elm Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. Normally this is a decent regional hotel. This week it is the operational center of the American news media. My son got on the elevator with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Morning Joe is being filmed eight flights below my room. I’ve run...
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Manchester is the capital of the New Hampshire primary. All the TV networks are here, all of the campaigns as well. Weird street theater is constantly playing out on the streets of this White Plains-sized city. The picture below was taken on Elm Street, the main drag here. We watched a cavalry charge by...
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This morning Mitt Romney held a large rally in Derry New Hampshire. The crowd was even less diverse than Ron Paul’s and Newt Gingrich’s events yesterday. Romney’s speech was competent, but more, or less just a rehash of his tale of his wife’s immigrant roots (from Wales) and a bland recitation of the song...
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Friday night I headed down to the small town of Salem, New Hampshire, to catch Newt Gingrich at his “Town Hall” at the local high school. The school’s largest venue, the gym, was occupied by the girl’s basketball team, so we were diverted to the cafeteria, which held 300 people but was already filled...
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I spent the afternoon at an airport hangar rally for Ron Paul at the Nashua Airport.  I took pictures of the entire crowd of about 400-500 people at the rally and I’ll post what amounts to a collection of group portraits that tell you a lot about what’s wrong with the Iowa Caucus and...
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I’m up in New Hampshire to cover the lead-up to the Republican Primary on Tuesday. I’ve come up here every four years since 1980 to see presidential politics on the street level.  Before I start reporting, I want to tell you a little bit about the state. New Hampshire, like Iowa, is one of...
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