2012 New Hampshire Primary Results *100% reporting:

Mitt Romney 97,532 votes 39.3% – 5 delegates
Ron Paul 56,848 votes 22.9% – 3 delegates
Jon Huntsman 41,945 votes 16.9% – 2 delegates
Newt Gingrich 23,411 votes 9.4%
Rick Santorum 23,362 votes 9.4%
Others 2,676 votes 1.1%
Rick Perry 1,713 votes 0.7%
Buddy Roemer 945 votes 0.4%

Residents in the small town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire were the first to cast ballots in the state’s presidential primary election just after midnight on Tuesday.

Results:
Jon Huntsman 2 votes
Mitt Romney 2 votes
Ron Paul 1 vote
Rick Perry 1 vote
Newt Gingrich 1 vote
Barack Obama 3 votes

*According to the Associated Press, the group of 9 registered voters in Dixville Notch comprised three Republicans, two Democrats and four undeclared voters.

Results:
Mitt Romney 5 votes
Ron Paul 4 votes
Jon Huntsman 2 votes
Rick Perry 1 vote
Newt Gingrich 1 vote

The 28-minute video, which will likely show up on TV in the coming weeks, by the Gingrich-leaning Winning Our Future Super PAC assails Mr Romney for “reaping massive awards” while head of Bain Capital, a private equity firm.

“King Of Bain: When Mitt Romney came to town” features “regular Americans” saying they lost their jobs and homes due to their firms being dismantled by Bain.

A three-minute trailer for the film has been released, along with a preamble which calls Romney a “predatory corporate raider”.

“His firm didn’t seek to create value. Instead, like a scavenger, Romney looked for businesses he could pick apart,” the preamble says. “Indeed, he represented the worst possible kind of predator, operating within the law but well outside the bounds of what most real capitalists consider ethical.

“He is exhibit number one the left wants to use in the coming election to give capitalism a bad name.

Source: The Telegraph

Romney is followed by Ron Paul at 20%, Jon Huntsman at 13%, Newt Gingrich at 11% and Rick Santorum at 10%, while Rick Perry and Buddy Roemer finished just above 1% each. 12% of voters still remain undecided.

Poll Results
Mitt Romney 35%
Ron Paul 20%
Jon Huntsman 13%
Undecided 12%
Newt Gingrich 11%
Rick Santorum 10%
Buddy Roemer 1%
Rick Perry 1%

Source: Suffolk University

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Romney is followed by Paul at 20%, Huntsman at 11%, Newt Gingrich at 9% and Rick Santorum, who dropped another point to 8 percent overnight. Rick Perry and Buddy Roemer each had 1%. 15% remain undecided.

Poll Results
Mitt Romney 35%
Ron Paul 20%
Jon Huntsman 11%
Newt Gingrich 9%
Rick Santorum 8%
Buddy Roemer 1%
Rick Perry 1%

Source: Suffolk University

January 7th ABC/Yahoo! News Republican Debate

Vote now in the final 2012 New Hampshire Primary Straw Poll.

Final Poll Results:

Who will win the 2012 New Hampshire Primary?

Mitt Romney (26%, 2,247 Votes)
Ron Paul (16%, 1,401 Votes)
Rick Santorum (15%, 1,276 Votes)
Jon Hunstman (14%, 1,221 Votes)
Newt Gingrich (14%, 1,201 Votes)
Buddy Roemer (14%, 1,180 Votes)
Rick Perry (1%, 178 Votes)

Total Voters: 8,704
*Online Straw Poll where each IP address only gets one vote. (Not scientific).

They entirely miss the point. From the start of the GOP race, the contest has been divided between Mitt Romney on one side and Everybody Else Plus Ron Paul on the other, as conservatives examined possible alternatives to the front-runner, Willard. This explains the sine-wave shape of the race so far, with various not-Romneys rising and then falling as they have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

It’s instructive to note that Romney has gained not at all from the successive collapses of the second-tier candidates, and that while it may have just been dumb luck on Santorum’s part to be the last man standing, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. Does anyone doubt that had Rick Perry not proven himself to be a tongue-tied imitation of George W. Bush that he would have put Romney away handily? It wasn’t Perry’s position on immigration that did him in, it was his sheer ineloquence.

The Mittbots might want to ask themselves this: if Romney is so great, why did Santorum — a guy who was barely a blip on the radar screen a couple of weeks ago — come out of nowhere to nearly nip him at the wire, while Mitt stayed stuck at . . . 25 percent?

As John Podhoretz put it yesterday:

The results last night make it clear that Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history, scoring fewer caucus votes in Iowa in 2012 than he received in 2008.

As I said on the most recent NR cruise, if Romney is the nominee, he will lose. He has no idea what Axelrod & Co. are capable of, nor of the depths to which they will stoop to destroy him. They will attack him as a flip-flopper, as a panderer, as a rapacious and heartless one percenter, and, yes, as a Mormon. They will damn him with faint praise as a liberal accomodationist, as the spiritual father of Obamacare. He’s a gentleman in a mug’s game, and this is no time for gentlemen.

Source: National Review

Former Governor Mitt Romney has stumbled downward in a recent Washington Times poll, but still holds on to strong lead garnering 38%. Ron Paul finished in second with 23.6% and Iowa Caucus winner Rick Santorum saw his support increase to 10.8%.

The hometown favorite Romney is expected to get 40%-50% of the vote and anything under would be a disappointment for his campaign.

Poll Results
Mitt Romney 38.0%
Ron Paul 23.6%
Rick Santorum 10.8%
Newt Gingrich 9.1%
Not sure 9.7%
Jon Huntsman 8.0%
Rick Perry 0.5%
Michelle Bachmann 0.3%

*Buddy Roemer not included in poll

*JZ Analytics was commissioned by the Washington Times to conduct a telephone survey of Republican
primary voters in New Hampshire. The sample is 498 interviews with approximately 19]questions asked.
Samples are randomly drawn from purchased RDD lists of both landlines and wireless telephones. Up to
three calls are made to reach a sampled phone number.
The margin of error for 498 is +/- 4.5 percentage points.

Source: Washington Times/JZanalytics