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Print Subscription Conversations Today's Paper Going Out Guide Jobs Cars Real Estate Rentals Classifieds Personalize Campaign 2012 Congress Courts & Law The Fed Page Health Care Polling White House Blogs & Columns Issues: Energy In the News William Daley Mitt Romney Santorum sweater vests Supreme Court Jon Huntsman Ron Paul Search The Washington Post How to Exercise Your Brain to Make It Strong The 5 Stupidest Things You Follow @PostPolitics on Twitter | Fan us on Facebook | Subscribe Can Do If You Have Too Much Debt SEARCH THIS BLOG Posted at 11:38 PM ET, 01/07/2012 2012 ABC/Yahoo!/WMUR New Hampshire GOP primary debate (Transcript) How the Little Guy is Making Fast Money in the By Felicia Sonmez Stock Exchange SUBSCRIBE Below is a transcript of Saturday night’s ABC News /Yahoo!/WMUR-TV Select ... New Hampshire Republican primary debate , courtesy of FDCH POST BLOGS Transcripts: Read more from our colleagues at the Post. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PARTICIPATE IN A DEBATE SPONSORED BY ABC NEWS The Fix Behind the Numbers JANUARY 7, 2011 Fact Checker The Take 44 | White House SPEAKERS: FORMER SEN. RICK SANTORUM, R-PA., Featured Blogs & Columns Wonkblog PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Election 2012 News and conversation about the 2012 CANDIDATE PROFILES elections. FORMER REP. NEWT GINGRICH, R-GA., Barack Obama Mitt Romney PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 2Chambers Rick Perry Inside the 112th Congress Michele Bachmann REP. RON PAUL, R-TEXAS, Jon Huntsman Ron Paul PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Herman Cain 44 Newt Gingrich The Obama presidency Rick Santorum FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE THE CANDIDATES Powered by @ GovGaryJohnson : "South Carolina Libertarian GOV. RICK PERRY, R-TEXAS, The Post Most: Politics Executive Committee Endorses Gary Johnson" Most Popular Great news and much PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE appreciated! http://t.co 1. Newt Gingrich veers from nice to nasty, with few /F8HecXnp FORMER GOV. JON HUNTSMAN JR., R-UTAH, advisers to guide him 2. Romney comes under attack as New Hampshire @ RickSantorum : New primary looms Hampshire: Your 'first in the PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE nation' primary gives you the 3. White House Chief of Staff William Daley resigns; opportunity to lead. Go send budget chief Jacob Lew fills p a message with your vote! DIANE SAWYER, 4. If Romney wins in NH as expected, size of his victory is likely to shape race fo @ RonPaul : Schedule: Ron ABC NEWS Paul to visit five New 5. Where can a federal employee find recourse? Hampshire polling sites http://t.co/PBdaqbet #gop GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, Top Videos #gop2012 #RonPaul #tcot #fitn Top Galleries 1 of 32 1/10/2012 9:07 AM 2012 ABC/Yahoo!/WMUR New Hampshire GOP primary debate (Transcr... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/2012-abcyah... ABC NEWS @ JonHuntsman : Down to Loading... the wire: every vote counts! Your vote today will help us JOSH MCELVEEN, put our country first above politics. #FITN WMUR @ RonPaul : ICYMI: Huntsman doesn't make [*] Arizona ballot - http://t.co /ubpI3EZN And two other states: http://t.co SAWYER: And good evening to all of you. Welcome to Saint Anselm /AWHaibXm #GOP2012 College and the first debate of the year, 2012. The voting is underway. #fitn #tcot #RonPaul And, George, those eight votes in Iowa reminded us on Tuesday every vote counts. Follow the Candidates STEPHANOPOULOS: No question about it, we are off and running. Great CAMPAIGN TEAM to be here with you, Josh. And now let’s introduce the candidates: former @ 2chambers : wow RT Governor Jon Huntsman; Texas Congressman Ron Paul; former @Jordanfabian : This polling place in Manchester Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney; former Senator from is nuts. http://t.co Pennsylvania Rick Santorum; the former speaker of the House, Newt /pHqrlARD Gingrich; and Texas Governor Rick Perry. @ 2chambers : Rick Campaign 2012 tools Santorum’s sweater vests SAWYER: And it is time to remind everyone again of the rules, which are become a fundraising pretty straightforward, and we remind you again, they were negotiated Republican primary tracker incentive ahead of New and agreed to by the candidates themselves. So let’s take you through Hampshire primary Explore the state of the 2012 race in key http://t.co/DXD8DAsM them. early states. @ FixRachel : what a great One-minute responses to the question, with 30 seconds for rebuttal. And Mad Money: Campaign ads photo RT @mcorley : we’re showing everybody at home that the candidates will see green, @nicopitney leaving the Watch the latest campaign ads and track Huffington Post (via and then when there’s 15 seconds left, it will turn yellow and red when how much candidates spend. @kate_sheppard ). What's the time is up. next for Nico? http://t.co /Ykk7nFaY Campaign Finance Explorer SAWYER: Our audience was chosen by Saint Anselm College and See who's raising and spending the most @ TheFix : So, I think WMUR. And all of you at home can watch on abcnews.com and money. consensus hashtag for NH yahoo.com. You can even join the discussion by downloading Yahoo’s primary tonight will be #fitn . IntoNow app on your iPhone. You can pitch in your opinions during the Unless I hear differently... debate. 2012 Presidential Candidates @ TheFix : Nice Newt vs Nasty Newt. http://t.co SAWYER: So lets the -- let the debate begin. /PELUxE4q And, Governor Romney, we’ll begin with you. We just saw 200,000 new @ 2chambers : Newt Gingrich encounters the jobs created last month, and there are optimists who say this is the mayhem of the New signal that this economy is finally turning around. Are you with those Hampshire primary, optimists? @amyegardner reports: Mitt Romney Newt Gingrich http://t.co/F9GlF1r0 ROMNEY: I’m an optimist, and I certainly hope it turns around. We have millions of people who’ve been suffering too long, 25 million people that Click here to follow are out of work or have stopped looking for work, and also a lot of people MORE POST POLITICS who’ve got part-time jobs and need full-time employment. So it’s very good news. I hope we continue to see good news. Campaign Home Politics Home Rick Perry Ron Paul Most Viewed But it’s not thanks to President Obama. His policies have made the recession deeper, and his policies have made the recovery more tepid. As a result of everything from Obamacare to Dodd-Frank to a stimulus RECENT POSTS plan that was not as well directed as it should have been to a whole host Rick Santorum’s sweater of new regulations that have been put on American businesses, he’s vests become a fundraising incentive made it harder for small entrepreneurs and big businesses to decide to ahead of New invest in America and to grow jobs here. Hampshire primary Rick Santorum Jon Huntsman Newt Gingrich And so the president is going to try and take responsibility for things encounters the mayhem of the New Hampshire getting better. You know, it’s like the rooster taking responsibility for the primary sunrise. He didn’t do it. In fact, what he did was make things harder for New Hampshire primary America to get going again. 2012: How to track candidates, results SAWYER: I want to turn now to Senator Santorum. Senator Santorum, One New Hampshire volunteer’s path to you have said we don’t need a CEO, we don’t need a manager as Barack Obama Santorum president. What did you mean by that? New Hampshire Primary Day: Midnight votes in SANTORUM: Well, we need a leader, someone who can paint a positive Dixville Notch, Hart’s Location vision for this country, someone who, you know, has the experience to go out and be the commander-in-chief. I’ve experienced in eight years on Entries By Category the Armed Services Committee, I managed major pieces of legislation Featured Advertiser Links Eye Opener through the House and through the Senate on national security issues, Mesothelioma cancer shatters lives. Find out what to do like Iran, which is the most -- you want to talk about the most pressing before the killer strikes the one you love. 2 of 32 1/10/2012 9:07 AM 2012 ABC/Yahoo!/WMUR New Hampshire GOP primary debate (Transcr... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/2012-abcyah... 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