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Iowa or what the pundits predict doesn t necessarily sell in new hampshire. voters here relish the vetting process and large town hall meetings are a kind of appetizer to the real meal that up close encounter on main street. but new hampshire radio host paul westcot says that he feels some tune him out. some candidates have come and spent a lot of time here. reporter: like jon huntsman and mitt romney and early on rick santorum. just didn t happen and the candidates stayed away. reporter: their daily planners were packed with a lot of debates. in an election cycle where republicans are having a difficult time rallying behind one candidate, some independent voters here are still scratching their heads. the republican field, not too impressed. reporter: mitt romney the former governor from neighboring massachusetts has consistently maintained a 2-1 lead over his closest opponents. ....
Nation presidential primary. the former presidential senator is holding a faith, family and freedom town hall event in new hampshire. let s go up the road now to lebanon, new hampshire. newt gingrich holding a town hall meeting there after finishing a disappointing fourth in iowa. he s sharpening his attacks. one such target, rick santorum and his role in the 1990s republican revolution in congress. in terms of if you think of us as partners. he would have been the junior partner and he s not a bad person. i want to be clear about this. santorum countered that he played a key role in exposing a congressional scandal during that time and that gingrich remains silent on the sidelines. meantime, santorum rivals are attacking him over earmarks while he was in congress. but as dana bash reports, earmarks were a part of business when santorum served. we re in a financial crisis ....
That neither mitt romney nor rick santorum share that view. it didn t quite get the delivery of that last line just right. actually, i don t think he wanted to say that mitt romney more or less shared the view. still, the other half of that sound byte, probably the most important thing he said out here was he brought newt gingrich into the picture. the rest of the sound byte s is when newt gingrich was speaker of the house earmarks exploded. when rick santorum sponsored earmark after earmark he went to the floor and fought against those. so not only is john mccain out here going after rick santorum and his earmarking when he was in the united states congress, he s also now including newt gingrich in that as well. so the other thing i have to say about john mccain, it s important to mention him in south carolina because you know he is seen as a war hero. ....
well, it s very surprising. and jon huntsman is hoping that this is his moment. he saw rick santorum, he saw rick perry. he s seen all the other unromneys in this race have their moment and perhaps this could be jon huntsman s moment. that was a very good endorsement and it did, basically diss the former governor of massachusetts. the governor who was in that state, where that newspaper resides. so, this is a good pickup for jon huntsman and we ll have to wait and see what happens. there is a new suffolk university poll that came out. they re doing a daily tracking poll up here in new hampshire. the last one was sort of stratling the iowa caucuses and part of it was taken before the iowa caucuses and part of it after. this new one that just came out was taken before the boston globe endorsement, but it shows jon huntsman in fifth place which is not a good showing for him in that poll considering all the time he has spent here in new hampshire basically done ....
Majority. senator santorum and i have a strong disagreement. a strong disagreement that he believed that earmark and pork barrel projects were good for america. i think it s wrong for america. so, this event here in conway this morning has just ended. and i think, if i look over my shoulder here, it appears that romney might still be here, though he s just signing autographs. headed back to new hampshire. and it looks, you know, like he s got a little traction here. probably thanks to john mccain following him around and speaking on his behalf. kyra? joe, we ll keep checking in at all the live events today. thank you so much. next hour, jon huntsman s wife, mary kay is going to join us. i ll ask her about her husband s endorsement from the boston globe why he seems to be the flavor that hasn t had the month yet and how he acts when no one s looking. turning to international news now. a suicide bombing goes off in a ....