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Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up
In this day and age of sampling, parodies, and 24-hour news I suppose it was only a matter of time until they all merged into one hilarious video at Mitt Romney’s expense. I laughed, I cried. It was the best … Continue reading
Update From The Ground In NH
As I mentioned the other day (or was it yesterday? The days are starting to run together.) I have been volunteering at Jon Huntsman headquarters for the past week. It has been incredibly hectic, since I live about 70 miles … Continue reading
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Tagged Election 2012, GOP Nomination, Jon Huntsman, New Hampshire
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Boston Globe Endorses Jon Huntsman!
Sorry for the light posting recently, but I’ve been spending time volunteering for the Huntsman campaign in Manchester, New Hampshire. And there was no better place to be than the Jon 2012 Headquarters this evening when the news came in … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Election 2012, GOP Nomination, Jon Huntsman, New Hampshire
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Poll: America’s views most aligned with Jon Huntsman
In what is sure to provide Jon Huntsman’s campaign with a goldmine of a quote, the New York Daily News published the results of a poll which concluded that America’s views are most aligned with Jon Huntsman. If Americans chose their … Continue reading
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The Dark Horse
This week we get to merge our two favorite topics, The Beatles and Jon Huntsman. The Washington Examiner published an Op-Ed by Adam Silbert today entitled “Huntsman Could Be The Dark Horse.” Here’s a sample. First, Huntsman has the most … Continue reading
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Jon Huntsman’s CNN Op-Ed on North Korea
Jon Huntsman wrote a magnificent Op-Ed for CNN today detailing the steps America should take in the aftermath of the death of Kim Jong-Il. As the United States Ambassador to China from 2009-2011 and former Ambassador to Singapore, Jon has … Continue reading
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Jon Huntsman picks up two NH newspaper endorsements
As Jon Huntsman moves up in the polls (almost exactly as we predicted a few weeks ago) in the run-up to the New Hampshire Primary on January 10, he has scored two important newspaper endorsements this morning. Both the Keene Sentinel … Continue reading
Video: The Huntsman-Gingrich Debate
Three words. Not. Even.Close. Newt Gingrich must have felt fairly confident going into Monday’s Lincoln-Douglas debate. His only previous challenge in that format came from Herman Cain, who clearly wasn’t up to the challenge. And when you consider that this … Continue reading
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Tagged Election 2012, GOP Nomination, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich
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The Turning Point
In two days Jon Huntsman will debate Newt Gingrich in a “Lincoln-Douglas” format in Manchester, New Hampshire. This debate could be a major turning point in the GOP nomination process as Governor Huntsman will have an opportunity to expand on … Continue reading
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An Evening with Jon Huntsman
As Gripweed reported last night, I was given the opportunity to meet Governor Jon Huntsman last night in Minneapolis, and I wanted to give a detailed account of my evening. When I heard that Governor Huntsman would be in town … Continue reading
Our Greatest Huntsman Hits
Thanks to some great advertising by the Jon2012girls on Twitter we have been seeing a lot of traffic this evening. Since there is nothing blogwise that is more important to us than seeing Jon Huntsman win the GOP nomination for … Continue reading
When Dreams Come True
Who says dreams can’t come true? A few days ago MPR ran a quick note saying that Jon Huntsman would be hosting a fundraiser at the Minneapolis Club in downtown Minneapolis. Seeing an opportunity for Drae to meet her political … Continue reading
Why America Needs Jon Huntsman
As Jon Huntsman is increasingly gaining momentum in the race for the GOP nomination for president we thought it would be a good idea to elaborate on our reasons for supporting his candidacy. We initially discussed Governor Huntsman’s merits in … Continue reading
Newt’s Al Gore Moment
We all know the famous boast from Al Gore that he “invented the Internet” (in fairness it was misquoted and taken out of context, but those are the breaks in politics and media). Well it seems that Newt Gingrich may … Continue reading
Boston Herald Editorial Page Praises Jon Huntsman
Rachelle Cohen, editor of the Boston Herald editorial page, has written a wonderful piece on Jon Huntsman in today’s Herald entitled “The Smartest Guy You’ve Never Heard Of.” Could this be the prelude to an endorsement? We can only hope. … Continue reading
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In Which We Celebrate Our 70th Jon Huntsman Post Since January, 2011
Here at OB&B we like to think we were ahead of the curve. We started promoting Jon for president almost as soon as we started our blog (and included him in our Sgt. Pepper logo). Our call to ‘Draft Jon … Continue reading
Jon Huntsman to take questions on Twitter
Jon Huntsman has announced that he will be accepting questions via Twitter later today, beginning at 4:45 EST. If you are a Twitter user be sure to tweet your questions to the hashtag #q4jon.
Take the RINO Test!
A candidate like Newt Gingrich can get away with supporting the biggest socialist scheme in American government over the past 30 years because he says nasty things about the press and calls Barack Obama a Marxist. Jon Huntsman, on the … Continue reading
Another Writer Gets It: Huntsman the most electable of the GOP field
Here is a quick pre-errands post to direct your attention to an article written by syndicated columnist Ann McFeatters. Its title? ”Watch: Obama has most to fear from Huntsman.” If Jon Huntsman were the GOP presidential nominee, President Barack Obama … Continue reading
THIS is what foreign policy looks like
Whoa. Jon Huntsman is completely in his element in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal, talking shop about economics, foreign policy and China in an interview with WSJ’s Alan Murray. Joining him is Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Xin and Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska. When … Continue reading
Facepalm Sunday – Newt: Child Labor Laws “Truly Stupid”
Are you kidding me? Speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the former House Speaker said his system would be an improvement on current child labor laws, which he called “truly stupid.” But that’s not all. Newt, the GOP’s favorite … Continue reading
Morning Read: Why Not Jon Huntsman?
He’s a responsible, well-spoken adult with a good record in office, a soothing style, bipartisan appeal and ample knowledge of the world beyond our shores. But Jon Huntsman, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, somehow imagines he can overcome those … Continue reading
Not so fast, Newt
For those of us who have already made up our minds about Jon Huntsman and support his bid for the presidency the spectacle of the republican herd moving from candidate to candidate has been enjoyable to behold. Instead of learning … Continue reading
OWS – Enablers in Oakland
Debra Saunders from the San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent opinion piece at SFGate today on the subject of the increasingly violent Occupy Wall Street protests in Oakland. In it she takes on the naive assumption that the more violent … Continue reading
Jon Huntsman – The Candidate Most Likely To Defeat Obama Head To Head
Don’t just take our word for it. Nate Silver in the New York Times FiveThirtyEight blog and New York Times Magazine has mathematical proof. In conjunction with my New York Times Magazine article on President Obama’s re-election prospects, my colleagues Matt Ericson … Continue reading
