Jon Huntsman

Wayne MacDonald, the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, has a general message for presidential candidates as the January 10 Granite State primary approaches: “Time’s a-wastin’.” MacDonald’s warning might as well be directed straight at Jon Huntsman’s New Hampshire campaign, which, for the time being, is Jon Huntsman’s entire campaign. 

1. I thought Newt Gingrich did not do well. Not just when he defended his (essentially indefensible) work at Freddie Mac, but also when he cited FDR as a model for how he would handle the court. Terrible argument, one that any self-proclaimed constitutional conservative should be concerned about.

Associated Press: "Appeals court upholds Obama health care law"

Mike Riggs: "The Occupy Movement's Penchant for Inflicting Collateral Damage Isn't Winning it Any Friends"

Herman Cain reports a big online fundraising day yesterday.

So does Newt Gingrich!

The solution?

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman sat down last night with Steve Hayes, Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer, and A. B. Stoddard for a roundtable interview:

From the New York Times write up of last night's debate:

"The only one of the leading candidates not to participate was former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah ..."

Las Vegas
While seven of the leading candidates are meeting tonight here for the tenth national Republican primary debate, Jon Huntsman will be campaigning in New Hampshire. “We’re going to do things here the old fashioned way—bring folks together for a traditional town hall meeting,” Huntsman tells me in a phone interview. Tonight he plans to talk “about the issues, and then [hold] a Q and A New Hampshire-style. But people want to talk about how they are being blocked of the first-primary status.”

At the beginning of the second hour of Tuesday night's debate in Hanover, New Hampshire, moderator Charlie Rose prompted each candidate to ask another candidate a question. More than half the candidates used the opportunity to take on Romney.

Herman Cain touted his own 9-9-9 tax plan as "simple, transparent, efficient, fair and neutral" and asked Romney if the former Massachusetts governor could name all 59 parts of his own economic plan and whether that plan was simple, transparent, efficient, fair and neutral.

Another Republican presidential debate, another forceful performance by Mitt Romney. The subject was the economy, jobs, and finance—Romney’s strong suits—and he made the most of it, having more to say on those subjects and saying it more cogently than the other seven candidates.

A new Suffolk University poll of 400 likely voters shows former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with a commanding lead in New Hampshire's GOP presidential primary, traditionally the first primary of the campaign season.

A CBS News/New York Times poll taken from September 10th-15th (both before and after the most recent debate) shows Rick Perry with a 7-point edge (23 to 16 percent) over Mitt Romney among registered voters who intend to vote in a Republican primary or caucus. Newt Gingrich has moved into a tie with Michele Bachmann for third place, with 7 percent apiece, followed by Herman Cain and Ron Paul at 5 percent apiece. Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman are each at 1 percent.

Former Homeland Security chief and governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge will endorse Jon Huntsman for president: