POLL: Can Anyone Beat Hillary?

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It's still very, very early, but to this point, it looks like Hillary Clinton is almost a lock for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. A Quinnipiac University poll released this week had her with 65 percent of her party's support, with Vice President Joe Biden a distant second at just 13 percent. Polls of New Hampshire voters by Public Policy Polling and the University of New Hampshire Survey Center have shown similar results. Clinton also fares well in potential match-ups with top Republican presidential contenders like Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie. She leads Paul 52 to 41 percent and Rubio 52 to 38 percent in New Hampshire, according to PPP. That begs the question: Is there anyone who stands a chance against Clinton…

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Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton Leading the Way in NH

They are the early frontrunners for the 2016 New Hampshire Primary, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey.

Rand Paul is leading the way in New Hampshire among potential 2016 GOP presidential contenders, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released today. Paul leads the field at 28 percent, followed by Marco Rubio at 25 percent, Chris Christie at 14 percent, Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan at 7 percent each, Rick Santorum at 4 percent, Susana Martinez at 3 percent and Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal at 1 percent apiece. Paul appears to be following in his father's footsteps in the Granite State. Ron Paul finished second to eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the 2012 New Hampshire Primary. Rand Paul's 28 percent showing is a huge jump, as he was polling at just 4 percent here as recently as November. Paul is scheduled to be in New Hampshire …

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Proud Conservative

9:09 am on Monday, April 29, 2013

Atlant - give it a rest. All you do on here is post negative responses to other commenters - critical, derogatory, negative responses. You offer very little in the way of positive comments. All anyone has to do is read though the history of your posts and they get a pretty clear picture of just who and what you are.   more ›

Jon Huntsman Coming to Portsmouth Tonight

WMUR first reported the news, and an assistant to the former GOP presidential candidate confirmed the visit this afternoon.

Former GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman will meet with supporters in Portsmouth on Friday night, his assistant confirmed this afternoon. The news was first reported by WMUR's James Pindell, who said Huntsman would be attending a dinner at the home of Renee Reidel and Dan Plummer. Ryan Smith, an assistant to the former Utah governor, told Portsmouth Patch on Friday afternoon that Huntsman had a long-standing invitation from Reidel, who was "a great friend" throughout his presidential campaign. "He had some time on his schedule to come visit and say hi and more or less thank them for all the work they did on the campaign," Smith said. "Honestly, it was supposed to be a real low-key thing. It was more or less a thank you to everyone …

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Primary Patch

Protesters to Greet Romney in NH

Various groups, including some Liberty and Occupy members, plan to be outside Romney's event tonight in Manchester.

Mitt Romney plans a highly choreographed return to New Hampshire tonight to refit his primary campaign with general election racing stripes. But even after he's expected to rack up more delegates in five states voting today, some Ron Paul supporters and others plan to protest outside the Romney event in Manchester that he's "not even close" to capturing the nomination. Here is one message on a Facebook page posted to crash the party: "Mitt Romney is skipping all the voting states to be in NH on Tuesday, April 24th. He is holding an event he calls 'A Better America Begins Tonight' in which many are speculating he may declare himself the Republican nominee. Others speculate he may name his VP at this event.  Democrats have already organized …

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Santorum Suspends Campaign

NH co-chair will support Romney, but a Tea Party leader says Romney won't get his vote.

The former U.S. senator who built the case as the conservative alternative to Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has suspended his campaign. Rick Santorum's New Hampshire supporters were saddened by the news Tuesday, but proud to have stood with him. Daniel Tamburello, a state co-chairman for Santorum, said Santorum made a good case for being the conservative choice. Ultimately, Tamburello said, Santorum will have made Romney a stronger candidate in the general election. "That whole campaign is testament to the fact that Rick is a genuine human being," Tamburello said in a phone interview with Patch. "When people talked to Rick, looked into this eyes, they believed what he said." Santorum made the decision after taking a break…

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Tony Schinella

3:03 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012

I think he quit too early. I know everyone is saying that he didn't want to lose his home state and maybe he will run in 2016, but his time was really now. That said, clearly the health of Bella had a role in the decision.   more ›

VIDEO: The NH Primary Matters

Campaign managers talked about the state of the New Hampshire Primary.

It seems like so long ago, but New Hampshire was in the national spotlight in the presidential race last month. Campaign managers from the top six Republican presidential campaigns took a look back at the 2012 New Hampshire Primary in a forum discussion on Wednesday, moderated by WMUR's James Pindell. The panel was held Wednesday at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. It included Jim Merrill of the Mitt Romney campaign, Andrew Hemingway of the Newt Gingrich campaign, Jared Chicoine of the Ron Paul campaign, Mike Biundo of the Rick Santorum campaign, Kerry Marsh of the Rick Perry campaign, and Sarah Crawford Stewart of the Jon Huntsman campaign. Some of these campaign staffers disagreed on whether or not the …

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VIDEO: Rick Perry Was On A Religious 'High'

Former NH campaign manager defends Rick Perry's bizarre NH Cornerstone Speech he made in October.

Rick Perry may be out of the race, but his former campaign manager is still defending the candidate's eyebrow-raising speech he made in New Hampshire last year. Many accused Perry of being drunk or on drugs during a speech he made to conservative group Cornerstone Action last October. (Watch highlights here). He denied being under the influence during the speech. Former New Hampshire campaign manager Kerry Marsh explained his actions at a panel hosted by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Marsh said that Perry had just met with a small group of evangelical leaders and left on a religious "high" after speaking and praying with them. "That is his core; he holds God really close to him," she said. She said that …

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N.H. Primary

NH Ron Paul Supporters Occupy Maine

While Paul supporters concentrate on their considerable ground game, Romney breaks out the big guns.

On Jan. 11, the day after New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation Primary, hundreds of Ron Paul supporters scoured Granite State roadways for campaign signs, which they collected and distributed to Vermont, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Maine. Because the Maine Caucuses followed the New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and Nevada primaries, many local Paul supporters have made Vacationland their new stomping grounds, at least until the caucuses, which began this past Saturday and end on Feb. 11.  So while the four remaining GOP contenders battle for votes in the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses and Missouri Primary today, Paul's New Hampshire people know that tomorrow Maine will become the center of political world and the four-day home …

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GOP Influentials Resist Newt, Prefer Mitt

Despite S.C. win, most in N.H. still favor Romney.

Despite his big win in South Carolina on Saturday, Newt Gingrich faces skepticism from grassroots Republican activists and officeholders, who increasingly prefer Mitt Romney as their first choice for the GOP presidential nomination. The latest Patch-Huffington Post Power Outsiders poll of 177 Republican influentials from the early voting states of New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina and Florida shows they prefer Romney to Gingrich by a 43 to 27 percent margin, followed by Rick Santorum (14 percent) and Ron Paul (9 percent). However, the preference for Romney is not uniform. He continues to receive the most backing in New Hampshire (62 percent), the state that gave him a lopsided primary victory two weeks ago, and is preferred by a near …

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