New Hampshire Primary Results

New Hampshire Primary Results, The politically bloody fight for the Republican nomination to face President Barack Obama in the November presidential elections is a bit more clear today.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has established himself as the leader – the front runner. It is Romney’s to lose, yet this seems like a year when we need to expect that the front runner will have a hard time holding on to a lead. Romney still has at least one state to go before he can be declared as the clear Republican choice to face Obama.

There is a looming fight for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, January 21st. With only about 2% of the delegates chosen in Iowa and New Hampshire, this is looking like a three man race. Expect to see Texas Representative Ron Paul and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich to take this fight past January and past South Carolina.

It feels like it is over, because Romney decimated the competition in New Hampshire. Romney ended up with about 39% of the vote with Texas Representative Ron Paul a distant second with 23%. Only former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman had a respectable showing with 17%. New Hampshire will go down as a strong victory for Romney.
This primary season is different from past primaries. Republicans have changed most of the early primary rules so that they have gone away from a “winner-take-all” system to proportional voting in the early primaries. This translates into a longer race. Romney would have the nomination locked down if all the primaries allowed the winner to take all of the delegates from every state and they used the old system.

Iowa ended up being a three way tie even thought the media declared it a big victory for Romney. Romney was declared the winner with 24.6% of the vote and 30,015 votes. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum was second with 24.5% of the vote and 30,007 votes. A relatively close third was Texas Representative Ron Paul with 21.4% of the vote and 26, 219 votes. The irony is that Romney, Santorum and Paul all will receive the 6 delegates a piece to represent them at the Republican National Convention this summer.

New Hampshire is being declared as Romney’s big win, yet only 12 delegates were chosen. If you add up New Hampshire’s 12 and Iowa’s 28 delegates, you get a grand total of 40 delegates chosen so far for the convention. There are 2,286 delegates that will attend the convention, yet the media would lead you to believe that this race is almost over with only 2% of all the delegates chosen.

South Carolina shall be the last stand for many candidates. Jon Huntsman had a respectable showing in New Hampshire, yet he seems like he is on borrowed time in this campaign. His New Hampshire showing may be the high water mark for his campaign. He needs to repeat his respectable New Hampshire performance to take the fight past South Carolina.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has pushed all his chips into the pile in South Carolina. He has had some awful showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. Clearly, South Carolina is the last stand for Rick Perry in South Carolina. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum was a handful of votes withing a huge Iowa victory, yet he could not transfer his momentum from Iowa into a New Hampshire strong showing.

The three remaining candidates taking the fight to South Carolina and beyond are Romney, Paul and Gingrich. Ron Paul has a strong following that has allowed him to post a 3rd place finish in Iowa and a 2nd place finish in New Hampshire. He believes that as other candidates drop out of the race, he can become the alternative to Mitt Romney.

Although Newt Gingrich has declared South Carolina his to win, I expect him to hang in the race in order to be the last man standing against Romney. He also is seeking to be the conservative alternative to the moderate Romney.

Many a candidates career will be made or broken in the first primary in the south. South Carolina may be the last stand for a few candidates, yet Romney is clearly seeking to beat down his opposition to end it.

After Iowa and New Hampshire many Republicans feel like the end is near, yet this year seems to have tossed the rules and playbook aside. Expect the next week and a half to be a very interesting fight to see if Republicans have settled for Romney or if they are willing to anoint yet another candidate to upset the Republican field.

New Hampshire Primary

New Hampshire Primary, Romney rivals make final NH appeals: His pledge to stay positive in ashes, New Gingrich challenged front-runner Mitt Romney to account for his record as a corporate takeover artist Monday as Republican presidential hopefuls hustled through a final day of campaigning for the New Hampshire primary, a pivotal test for the rivals bidding to derail the former Massachusetts governor.

The candidates were all but tripping over each other, concentrating their day in the southern half of the state, known for holding town-hall meetings in actual town halls.

One exception, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, campaigned in South Carolina but joined Gingrich from afar in going bluntly after the front-runner’s private-sector credentials.

“I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips ? whether he’d have enough of them to hand out,” Perry told several dozen breakfast patrons in Anderson, S.C. That was a slap at Romney’s recent comment that he worried about getting a pink slip during his executive career.

Perry cited South Carolina companies that downsized under the control of Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney ran, and said it would be an “insult” for Romney to come to the state and ask for voters’ support in easing economic pain.

“He caused it,” Perry said, describing himself as best positioned to untangle the “unholy alliance between Washington and Wall Street.”

Among the half dozen contenders, Jon Huntsman, who needs a strong New Hampshire performance to stay viable in the race, planned perhaps the most frantic pace, with seven stops on his itinerary from Lebanon near the Vermont line to the seacoast.

The former Utah governor visited a Lebanon truck stop and took the phone from an employee behind the counter who was speaking with a milk delivery driver. He said he’s looking for votes wherever he can find them. “I’m the underdog,” he said, a label that applies ? at least in New Hampshire ? to anyone but Romney.

Knocking Romney off his perch Tuesday won’t be easy.

He has spent the better part of two years essentially adopting the state as his own and now holds a comfortable lead in pre-primary polls as his rivals essentially battle for second place. Romney won the Iowa caucuses last week by a scant eight votes over Rick Santorum.

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New Hampshire Election Results

New Hampshire Election Results, In one of the most closely watched primary elections, U.S. Senate s Kelly Ayotte candidate Ovide Lamontagne continues to lead in the GOP primaries in New Hampshire.

With 10 percent of the vote counted, Ms. Ayotte is a disadvantage of 21 percentage points. The final resutls have Ms. Lamontagne main 53 percent to 32 percent.

In the race for the seat Sen. Judd Gregg tense in the Senate (Mr. Gregg is retiring after this year), both estblishment and anti-establihsment candidates made their voices heard. Both Senator Jim DeMint and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin offered support for Ms. Ayotte, moderate Republican candidate getting more attention and fundraising power.

Before the primary, most polls show Ms. Ayotte a slight advantage. Many consider it more likely to win in November on Congressman Paul Hodes, the uncontested Democratic candidate.