paul s number casts shadows on the west of what he s doing. his message is that the republican party needs to return to sanity. he is talking about social conservative is eupl and a hard-line conservative attitude. authors the attitudes that hold sway inside the south carolina electorate. his team would argue that a few weeks ago his team had him in 7%. the exit polling we found in new hampshire showed that moderates, democrats, those that are satisfied with how barack obama is doing in the white house, they voted for huntsman. why is that? reporter: they did because jon huntsman worked inside the obama administration. he was the president s ambassador to china he s made an appeal that there is something
wrong with the republican party as constituted in sorts of it s tea party, libertarian faith and freedom party. he doesn t like what it s doing. he s running as a reformer of the party. ron paul says it should be more conservative, more libertarian. huntsman wants to take it in another direction. you guys did fantastic work in breaking down the exit polling. when you see how south carolina is constituted and really the rest of the count throw in a party that is dominated by the south and the west and religious conservatives it s hard to make that huntsman makes that into something beyond new hampshire. greg: they were speculating if he wasn t first or second he s dropping out. that is not the case, hunts hunts is going to south carolina, all six intact. thank you. martha: keep it right here on fox of course for the best election coverage of all. the next gop presidential debate right here next monday night. this one will get interesting,
yeah. when you look at new hampshire, typically the top thing people look for is strong leadership and you know, you saw yesterday they were looking for somebody who can beat obama and i think what that says is, you know, that romney did work hard. he got a solid win in new hampshire. not to take away from that but the reality is he won by default more or less. the people looked at other candidates, gosh, we might like where they are better than we like where romney is but we don t feel like they would match up as well against the president. so it has to be romney. jon: a lot of talk has been made and a lot of ink has been printed about dissatisfaction with the republican field but you know, our post exit polling didn t find that to be the case. we asked if you re satisfied with the candidates, this is new hampshire only poll, and 66% of those in new hampshire said yeah, we like this republican slate. now 31% said they didn t.
between two very different destinies. president obama wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore america to the founding principles that made this country great. when it comes to the economy my highest priority as president will be worrying about your job, not about saving my own. [cheers and applause] jon: apparently that is what voters were looking for in new hampshire. when republicans chose romney, someone who can beat president obama they said in our fox news exit polling. that s the quality that beat out experience, moral character, and conservative credentials. drew cline, editorial page editor at the union leader in new hampshire. drew, thanks for being with with us. must have been kind of a short night for you, huh? yeah it was pretty short. jon: it was interesting when we saw the results of that exit polling the top candidate quality that voters were looking for is someone who can beat president obama. in that regard they seem to feel that mitt romney is t
occupiers point of view than he would be the tea party point of view so it s going to be interesting in what way. i think that he talks about freedom, liberty, the corruption of wall street and he talks about the fed. talks about cutting back the deficit. he would be in line with the tea party. in that case but about nothing else including the republican party. he mentioned last night, the russians fell apart. you know why? they invaded afghanistan. now he s saying we invaded afghanistan. i guess he wasn t in support of that any longer. he s a libertarian registered as a republican. i think it s fascinating that he s placed second in like the demographic you pointed out, brian. the question has to be asked what does that say about the republican party? right, meanwhile, now for a breakdown of the exit polling to go into more detail is molly lyon. yep, she joins us from the college in manchester with the latest. she was there yesterday at this time. she was there la