This is turning out to be a very interesting pre-primary season for the Republicans. It seems as if they are making up their rules as they go along. First you have Newt Gingrich annouce he was running for President, then takes off on a two week vacation. Although Michele Bachmann has not declared herself in the running yet, she is participating in the debate. Now how is that possible? Jon Huntsman's strategy of not personalizing his attack on the President and skipping this debate as well as the one in Iowa, is definitely a telling sign about his candidacy. Or not....
Jon Huntsman’s decision to skip the first New Hampshire presidential debate on Monday has Republicans in the state confused — and predicting that he’ll suffer politically for it.
“As a guy who has said publicly he’s going to skip Iowa, it seems like he’d want to be here for that debate,” said Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP chairman who met Huntsman at one of his early events in Durham. “It’s the first real debate and for a guy who seems to be all-in in New Hampshire.”
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