supporter for years. i voted for him the last time as an independent. i think he is the only one that really talks about what this country needs to turn around. host: david paleologos' question is how much supporters put their money where their mouth is. you mentioned that ron paul supporters are per to clearly committed. how does that in new hampshire play new? -- how does that play out in new hampshire? guest: ron paul led four or five days out. the santorum surge in iowa did not make it possible for him to keep that standing. the most important thing, if you are focused on it, to get out and vote and get your friends to get out and vote. it's worthy of noting that after tonight, you will only have two candidates who would have

finished in the top three, mitt romney and ron paul. i do not think rick santorum will be finishing third tonight. as different as iowa and new hampshire are, they are showing us the similarities in terms of which two candidates have passed the test. ironically, both of these candidates have run before. they have been around a track and they have learned from running. we will see, going forward, whether or not that sticks. host: david paleologos, suffolk university pollster. he also directs the school's political research center. thank you very much for joining us. guest: thank you. take care. host: 1 last tweet. c-span is in new hampshire today watching the primary unfulfilled we will be covering it tonight. we will hear from the candidates. we will also have primary

coverage and take your calls, starting tonight at 8:00. that's all for "washington journal" this morning. we will be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. ♪ ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> from the new hampshire is first in the nation primary, it's all under way. this small town was started at midnight. president obama received three

votes. [no audio] [room noise] >> we will have all their road to the white house events leading up to our live prime- time coverage at 8:00. of snacks, remarks from president obama had a campaign fund-raiser in washington and a debate with the lesser-known candidates and later, john huntsman and met romney and all that is leading up to our prime- time coverage of the new

hampshire primary watch our coverage getting under way at 8:00 tonight. we will have primaries austenite and speeches by the presidential candidates from their headquarters. you can follow it all on facebook and follow us on twitter. there's also covers on cspan radio and on line at c- span.org/campaign 2012. we had planned to bring you coverage of the new jersey state of the state address from governor chris christie but he has postponed address due to the death of his assemblymen. he died last night. he collapsed after 11:00 last night. the legislature was wrapping up last night so the governor has postponed that speech and is attending to the swearing in of a new member and the governor will deliver his speech -- his comments about the assemblymen

in the legislature today. we'll keep you posted on a rescheduling of that event. president obama had two events last night in washington. up next, his second event of the night. it's cut to 700 campaign supporters at the capital hilton hotel. tickets for this event started at $100 and the proceeds went to the obama victory fund. >> hello, everybody hello, hello, hello. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. happy new year, everybody. [applause] it looks like you are all fired up. a few acknowledgments i want to

make -- a first of all, the ofa virginia state director is here. we want to thank our directors in the states because they do such hard work every day. please give them a big round of applause. [applause] becerra of our event this evening, spencer over timber in -- overton, thank you. one of my favorite singers, sarah barella and are banned. we are grateful to them. [applause] i am grateful to you. i love you back. i do. i am here not just to say i love you. [laughter] i am here because i need your help. [applause] and more importantly, i am here because the country need your help.

there were many reasons that many of you got involved in the campaign and worked your hearts out back in 2008. it was not because you thought it was going to be easy. it was not because you thought it was a sure thing. you decided to support a candidate named barack hussain obama -- [applause] you did not need a pole to know that might be an uphill struggle [laughter] what he vaulted during the course of that campaign -- people more and more became aware of the fact that the campaign was not about me. it was about us. it was about our shared vision of america. it was about a vision of america that was not narrow or cramped and it was not an idea that everybody goes out and fend for themselves in place by their own rules. an america that is built on what

is in it for me. it was a vision of a big, bold, ambitious, compassionate, just america where everybody who works are as a chance to get ahead, not just those at the very top of everybody. it was a vision that says we are greater together than we are on our own. it was a vision that said everybody deserves a fair shot. everybody needs to their fair share. everybody has to play by the same set of rules and when that happens, we all advance together. that is the vision that we share. that is the change we believe in. you helped me believe in that change. it was not just me, it was you. we knew it was not going to be easy. inouye the change we want was not going to come quickly. i was just talking to a group

and they were reminiscing about the 2008 campaign. i said you guys are engaging in selective memory. [laughter] 2008 was not easy at all. there were all kinds of setbacks and all kinds of miscues. there were times when i screwed up. but just over three years later, because of what you did in 2008, because you had faith and confidence in the possibilities of this country, we have begun to see what change looks like. think about it -- about what has happened over the past three years. the first bill i signed into law says an equal day's work could mean an equal day's pay because our daughter should have the same opportunities as we did. [applause] changes the decision we made to rescue an auto industry that was on the brink of collapse.

[applause] even when some politicians said we should let them all go bankrupt and 1 million jobs were saved and local businesses were picking up again and now we got the big three making money and rehiring workers and fuel efficient cars are rolling off the assembly lines, stamped with three proud words -- made in america. that is what changes. [applause] changes this it -- get this -- change is the decision not to wait for congress and raise fuel efficiency levels on cards and by the next decade, we will be driving cars that will get 55 miles to the gallon and that will help our firemen and our economy and consumers because of you. that is what change is. change is the fight we want to stop handing $60 billion of subsidies to banks to manage the student loan program and go

ahead and give it directly to students and as a consequence, millions of young people have greater access to college than ever before [applause] change is the health care reform that we passed after a century of trying that will ensure that in america, nobody goes bankrupt because they get sick. [applause] already, 2.5 million young people have health insurance today because that law let them stay on their parents' plan. [applause] seniors are already seeing discounts on their prescription drugs. preventive care is available to everybody. folks with pre-existing conditions are in a position to finally get insurance instead of being left out in the cold. that is what change is because of you. that's what we were fighting for

[applause] millions of americans who can no longer be denied or dropped by their insurance companies when they needed most. that would change is. change is the fact that for the first time in our history, you don't have to hide to you love in order to serve the country you love because don't ask, don't tell is history. it is over. [applause] change is keeping one of the first promises i made in 2008 -- ending the war in iraq and bring our troops home. the war is over and our troops are home. [applause] instead, we refocused on the terrorists who attacked us and 9/11. thanks to our brave men and women in uniform, al-qaeda is weaker than it has ever been and osama bin laden will never again walked the face of this earth.

that would change is. [applause] -- that's what's changed is. a lot of these changes were not easy. some of them were risky. they all came in the face of tough opposition, powerful lobbyists, special interests, spending millions of dollars to keep things the way they were. it is not so sacred that i've always taken the politically popular course, certainly not with the crowd in washington. this congress -- this progress has been possible because of you. you guys did not stop believing. you stood up and make your voice is heard and you were out there knocking on doors and made phone calls. you kept up the fight for change long after the election was over. that should make you proud but it should also make you hopeful.

it should make you satisfied. it should not make us complacent. we have so much more work to do everything we fought for during the last election is at stake in this election. the very core of what this country stands for is on the line. the basic premise that no matter what you look like or no matter where you come from, this is a place where you can make it if you try, the notion we're in this together and we look out for one another, that is at stake in this election. don't take my word for it. watch these debates going on of the new hampshire. the crisis in the months before it took office but more americans out of work than at any time since the great depression. it was the culmination of a decade or the middle class had been losing ground. more good jobs, manufacturing left our shores, more of our prosperity was built on risky

financial deals and homes we could not afford and we racked up greater debt and incomes fell and cost of everything from college to groceries went through the roof. these problems did not happen overnight and they will not be solved overnight. it will take us a few more years to meet all the challenges that have been decades in the making. the american people understand that. what the american people don't understand our leaders who refused to take action. they are sick and tired of watching people who are supposed to represent them put party at country and the next election that of the next generation. that is what they don't understand [applause] president kennedy used to say after he took office, what surprised him the most about washington was that things were

just as bad as he had been saying they were. [laughter] i understand what he meant. [laughter] when you've got the top republican in the senate saying his party's number 1 priority is not to create jobs or fix the economy but to beat me -- that gives you a sense of the mentality here. things are not on the level. that's how you end up with republicans in congress voted against all kinds of proposals that they supported in the past tax cuts for workers and small businesses, rebuild roads and bridges, putting cops and teachers back to work. it used to be bipartisan ideas. i have said i will continue to look for every opportunity during the course of this year to work with congress and move this country forward and create jobs.

we cannot wait. [applause] whenever this congress refuses to act in a way that hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, i've got an obligation as president to do what we can without them. i've got an obligation to work on behalf of you and the american people. [applause] ilem not let members of congress put party ideology at of the people they were elected to serve. not when there is this much at stake. this is a make or break moment for this country, for the middle class and folks who want to get into the middle class. for example, that is why last week i appointed richard cordray as the consumer watchdog. [applause] this is a man whose sole job is to look out for the best interests of american consumers,

to protect families from the kinds of all unfair, deceptive, and abuse of financial practices that helped bring the economy to its knees. that should not be controversial. why would somebody begins to that? yet, for almost half the year, republicans in the senate blocked his appointment. it would not even vote on it. not because they said he was not qualified because they could not say that. democrats and republicans said he was qualified. they just wanted to weaken wall street reforms. they thought this might be too tough on these financial firms. does anybody here think the reason we got into this financial mess but it was because we had too much oversight? did we have too much accountability? we should not be weakening these

roles. we should be strengthening these rules when it comes to american workers and america's families. we should be looking to protect them more, not less. [applause] that is what we have been doing and that is what we will keep on doing. that is also why i fought so hard last month to make sure that congress did not go home without prevented a tax increase on one of its 60 million working americans. [applause] i am glad. i am glad republicans finally came around. and agreed to extend the payroll tax cut for working families into this year. they now have to extend it for the entire year. a lot of these republicans swore an oath. i'll never raise taxes on anybody as long as i live. exceptiont make an for ordinary folks. it cannot just apply to the

wealthiest. now is the time you will fight at least as hard for middle- class folks are folks trying to get into the middle class as you do for the wealthiest americans. we've got a clear choice this year. people are hurting out there. they are going through tough time. everybody understands the economy is not where it needs to be. it is growing. we have had 22 consecutive months of job growth in the private sector but -- [applause] but everybody understands we still have more work to do. of course, it has to move faster. of course, the economy still has a long way to go. everybody understands that. the question is, what will we do about it? the debate in this election about -- will be about where we go from here.

the republicans in congress and the candidates running for president have a specific idea of where they want to take this country. they say they want to reduce the deficit but they will do it by gutting our investments in education and research and technology and infrastructure, our roads and bridges and airports. i have already signed $1 trillion worth of spending cuts. it is time to reduce the deficit by asking the wealthiest people in our society to pay their fair share. there's nothing wrong with that. [applause] people like me can afford it. republicans in congress and on the campaign trail want to make medicare a form of private insurance that seniors have to shop for with a voucher but the voucher might not cover all the costs. i think we can lower the cost of medicare with reforms that still guarantee the dignified retirement of seniors because

they have earned it. republicans in congress and these candidates think the best way for america to compete for new jobs and businesses is to follow other countries in a race to the bottom. they figure that china's pay low wages and we should pay low wages. let's roll back the minimum wage. let's prevent folks from organizing through collective bargaining in this country. other countries allow companies to pollute as much by what, why not get rid of the protections that ensure our air is clean and our water is clean. ? i don't think we should have any more regulations than the health of the american people require. we are creating a smart government. we have issued fewer regulations than the bush administration. i don't believe a race to the bottom is one we should try to win. we should be trying to win the race to the top.

[applause] we should be competing to make sure we have the best schools in the world and our workers have the best training and skills in the world. and we have a college education within reach of everybody who wants to go. that is the race we should be trying to win. [applause] we should be in a race to give our businesses the best roads and airports and railroads and best internet access. we should be in a race to support the best scientists and researchers who are trying to make the next breakthrough for clean energy and medicine and those should happen and the united states of america. that is the race we should be trying to win. [applause] we should be in a race to make sure the next generation of manufacturing, the new products, the new services, that they are not created in asia or europe --

they are created here in america, in detroit, pittsburgh, cleveland, baltimore, va.. [applause] i don't want us to just be known for buying stuff from other places. i want to be known for building stuff and selling stuff around the world made in america. that is what i want -- that is what i want us to win. [applause] the competition for new jobs and new businesses and middle-class security -- that is a race we can win. we cannot win it if we just go back to the same thing that got us into this mess in the first place. the same oldtune - hand out tax cuts to people who don't need them and let companies play by their own rules and hope that everything will eventually trickles down to the rest of us. that does not work. it never worked.

we tried it. it did not work in the great depression. it is not what led to the incredible postwar boom of the 1950's and 1960's and it did not work when we tried it between 2000-2008. it won't work now. we cannot go back to this brand of you are on your own economics. we are not a country that was built on the idea of survival of the fittest. we were built on the idea that we survive as a nation. we thrive when we work together, all of us. [applause] , every race every creed. a stake inwe've got each other's success. if we attract outstanding teachers and a profession and give her the pay she deserves, she will taste the next steve jobs and we will end up benefiting, all of us.

if we provide faster internet into some rural community, that owner will be selling goods around the world and will be able to hire more workers now will be good for all of us. we build that new bridge and that will save the shipping companies time and money, workers and customers all over the country will do better. that is our idea. that idea has never been democratic republican. that is an american idea. abraham lincoln was a republican president and lost the transcontinental railroad, the academy of science, the first land grant -- a republican, teddy roosevelt called for a progressive income tax. republican dwight eisenhower built the highway system. millions of returning heroes had a chance to go to college under the gi bill. this is an american idea. [applause]

here is the good news -- that same common purpose, that still exists today. maybe it does not exist here in washington and maybe not on the presidential debate stage of the new hampshire, but out in america, it's there. it's there when you talk to folks on main street and barbers dropped -- barbershops and town halls. our political parties may be divided that most americans still understand that we are greater together. no matter where we come from, we rise or fall as one nation and one people. that is what is at stake right now. that is what this election is about. i know it has been a tough three years. i know the change we fought for in 2008, we have had to grind it

out to make it happen. after all that has been going on in washington, all the nonsense that takes place here sometimes, it is tempting to believe that maybe it's not possible to do everything we want. i want to remind everybody what i said the last campaign -- real change, big change is hard. it has always been hard for it it takes more than a single. turn it may take more than a single president. it takes you, ordinary citizens, committed to fighting and pushing and inching this country forward bit by bit until we get closer to our highest ideals. that is how this country was built. that is how we free ourselves from an empire. that is how the greatest generation was able to overcome more than a decade of war and depression and end up building the largest middle-class and

history. that is how young people be back with billy clubs and dogs and fire hoses to make sure that race was no longer a barrier to what you can become a this country. changes targeted as possible. i have seen it and i have lived it. if you want to end the cynicism and the game playing in washington, this is the election to send a message that you refuse to back to that. you will not give up. you intend to keep holding on. you intend to keep fighting for the change that we talked about, the change that we believe in. [applause] i 72008, i warned wall, [laughter] i said i'm not a perfect man. i said i will not be perfect president. but i promise you this -- i made

a commitment to you -- i have kept its commitment -- i will always tell you what i think and will always tell you where i stand and i wake up every single day thinking about you and fighting for you and try to figure out how we make sure everybody has access to the american dream. if you stick with us, if you keep pushing, if we just keep on going for the setbacks and through the tough times, if you keep reaching for a vision of america that i know you still hold in your hearts, then change will continue to come. [applause] this election may be part of the last one but i promise you that we will finish what we started in 2008. we will keep on. we will press forward. we will remind the world once more why the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. let's get to work.

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[u2 playing] ♪ >> live from new hampshire on c- span. one of the many polling places opened. this is the parish center in manchester, new hampshire. polls are open until 7:00 tonight. we will go inside and take all love. we will keep our eye on some of the comments from reporters on the campaign trail following the votes today. senator santorum heeds the no campaigning line at the polling stop in manchester. he is that northwest elementary

school and another reporter said only six avoids in new hampshire by 10:00 a.m. -- only six votes in the venture by 10:00 a.m. you can follow the reporters on our twitter page. [no audio] [no audio]

>> we have a live look there. more political cover is coming up for you from no hampshire with the events from john hulsman at 12:25 eastern and mitt romney after that and newt gingrich at 1:15 and rick santorum this afternoon at 1:50 eastern. all of that is leading up to our coverage tonight. the polls close at 7:00 eastern and our coverage and your call ins and postings and speeches by candidates will get under way at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span and on c-span.org and cspan radio. in mid-december some of the lesser-known candidates of the presidential election participated in a forum that was hosted by the new hampshire institute of politics on the ballot this year are 30

republicans and 14 democrats from 26 states. you'll see a number of them in this hour and one -- 1 hour and 50 minutes to debate. >> good evening, everyone. good evening, everyone. i am the executive director here. i want to welcome you all to the forum. we do many events here. it is the home for politics. i invite you to the web site, and to get our news letter and find out what is happening. this evening, i want to mention a few things. thank you to c-span for being here this evening. this will be on the web broadcast. c-span is doing their magic as usual.

our secretary of state is here in the audience. [applause] >> bill is a mentor to many people, including me. our state library and is also here. our commissioner of cultural affairs, the assistant secretary of state is also here and a few distinguished people are on our panel. we have a 30-year state representative and a longtime supporter of the new hampshire primary. he sponsored a law in 1975 that mandated the secretary of state set its dates seven days or more before similar elections. beth hall is a reporter for the "union-liter."

patrick griffin, who will turn over the microphone to, you may have seen him last week in a debate. he is an author and the senior fellow here at the institute of politics. >> good evening. [unintelligible] >> tonight we will share together in this new hampshire primary where candidates you have not heard a lot about have an opportunity to share ideas. let me quickly allow you to understand how these gentlemen were invited.

[laughter] [laughter] [applause] >> how is that? better? there are 44 candidates on the ballot. invitations for the event tonight were extended for all candidates on the ballot in new hampshire seeking the nomination for the office of president who have not been part of any other national debate. that is how these folks are here tonight. we will begin with republican candidates. then when we finish, the democrats will join us to share their thoughts. a couple of quick rules. we will ask candidates to begin with a two-minute opening, and do that in alphabetical order. following that, the panelists we have tonight will alternate

asking each of them a question. i will pick the candidate randomly so we cannot keep going in and order. i will ask that you hold your applause. we will ask that you keep interruptions to a minimum. i also reserve the right to occasionally ask a quick follow-up question. everybody understands? let's start with our candidates. very quickly let me introduce them bear betzler, from philadelphia pennsylvania. timothy brewer of dayton, ohio. dr. hugh cort of birmingham, alabama.

randy crow, from north carolina. mr. l. john davis jr. is from grand junction, colorado. jeff lawman is from new hampshire. benjamin linn from new hampshire. mr. michael meehan from saint louis, missouri and the end of the table, joe story. let's give them a nice round of applause. thank you gentleman. [applause] we will immediately go to our openings. we will begin with mr. bear betzler. twol ask you to go for minutes. when you're two minutes are done, i will give you longer to finish your thought. ok?

all right. you are up first. >> thank you. i am bear betzler from philadelphia, pa., and it is great to be back here in new hampshire. i would like to acknowledge bill gardner and everyone at the election division that has been so helpful. as a lesser-knowns can it, people are quick to ask -- candidate, people are quick to ask why you are running, and i am grateful we have a state where the tradition allows all candidates to participate on equal footing in the primary process -- sharing their ideas and thoughts about the future of the united states. above all, my candidacy is a celebration of that opportunity. it might seem strange, but i'm not dead into politics.

i'm like a lot of america -- not that into politics. i'm a lot like, -- a lot of americans disgusted. we are familiar with the social issues that divide us. we need to focus our energy on a single issue that defects pasquale where it is within our power to make rich effects costs all, where it is within our power. the budget deficit is a fire that needs to be put out now. spending cuts and tax increases -- i know raising taxes is not a popular strategy, but if we are riding in a car, we both slam on the brakes and turn the steering wheel. the problems of this country were not created by one party or the other.

we're all in this together and we need to start acting like it. please vote january 10. >> thank you. mr. timothy brewer. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, thank you. with less than 367 remaining counting today, i suspect we rise and shine and save the world in time. earlier this year the media said after life is possible. for over six years i have been focused on that. if there is the reason i am here, that is the reason. i am not here to insult your intelligence. i'm no better than anyone of you. i am a natural left-handed policies like albert einstein. i like to analyze.

2005 i received a call in from my inner thoughts. i'm here to offer you the best of both worlds. the experts claim after-life as possible. what does that mean to you. you can not be destroyed. i offer the best way to communicate forever. everything i offered can be considered. i offer the best solutions for the worst-case scenario. on christmas day, this sunday, i offer my solution to contact jesus out of boston, mass. if i am allowed to. in closing, i will show you problems i can fix if i allowed to do this. it fixes the economy, creates

jobs, fixes the problem of abortion, and is wars -- you name it. every major problem known to man. if you get a chance, check me out on facebook. >> dr. hugh cort? >> i am president of the american foundation for counter-terrorism policy and research. i'm running for president to warn america about the huge impending danger. hear this, america, and here it well -- iran is planning a nuclear attack on the united states in the near future. the lead newspaper in iran came out with an article saying that

if iran is attacked, "there are elements in america that will detonate nuclear bombs in the american cities." the leaders have a fanatical belief that if they can kill millions of americans and israelis with nuclear weapons, this will usher in the coming of their messiah. they have said this will happen in 16 months or less. there is evidence they may have smuggled nuclear bombs into america. there is evidence that hezbollah has been helping the mexican drug smugglers to dig tunnels. iran can bring anything it wants through those tunnels -- weapons, terrorists, bonds. i was on fox news about this.

to learn more, google hugh cort, american hiroshima. google hugh cort, american hiroshima. thank you. >> thank you. we'll move to randy crow. >> thank you. my name is randy crow. i was born in houston texas -- houston, texas. i started working in the gasoline business. in 1975 i started working for myself and have been self- employed primarily in the real- estate business ever since. i also call myself an investor, and currently i am an investor. in 1984 i moved to north

carolina. in 19 -- 1997 i put online my website and ran in my first political race. i have run in 18 political races. no successors. if i win in new hampshire or louisiana, that will be an exception. i have posted over 600 articles on my website. i was getting all around 100,000 hits a month when i brought it down earlier this year. september 11, a determined that in -- i determined that the planes were flown by remote control and posted the same a couple of days later. i believe there are four major

things that really need to be changed in this country if we're going to save the country like we think we are. the first thing we have to do is if you get money from the government you can not contribute to a political candidate. i will not be able to tell you all my words of wisdom, but maybe there will be some questions that will let me explain some of the other bad things that might be coming down the line in this country. >> thank you, randy crow. l. john davis, you are next. >> i am from grand junction, colorado. a couple years ago, god spoke to my heart to run for president. i've never been in politics. i wanted to do something no one has ever done before, so i decided to go to every county in america. so far we've been 21712 counties.

two things people tell me is they do not want a career politician. they want someone with business experience. my platform, my foundation, i am pro-god, family, and country, pro second amendment, and pro doing the right thing for americans. it is time to start taking care of america. we need to get back to honoring the constitution. we need to put god in the heart of this country. we need to control the borders. we need to be energy self- sufficient. we need to reduce the size of government. we need to reduce the amount of regulation on small business. we need to get rid of the irs and go to a fair tax. it has to be we the people let's take this country back, not the politicians.

i am running for president of the united states. thank you. >> thank you. mr. christopher hill. >> thank you for being here. i cannot tell you what an honor this is. i worked in on ronald reagan put the campaign in 1981 i was just 16 years old. i served in the united states air force. i'm a veteran from desert storm. i came home to new hampshire and raise my family. during that time i worked on other political campaigns. politicians come through this state, say one thing, and go to washington, d.c., and do something totally different. i've been campaigning since august. over the past four once i have had an opportunity to meet with

so many people just like us. homeless people that need our help. i have met people that told me the system is working, and bobby -- honestly, it is failing. as veterans around the world all we ever asked of politicians is that they pass on a stronger and better america for our children and grandchildren, and those politicians have failed. that is why you see a table with people like us trying to make a difference. we are called the lesser-knowns candidates. tonight we stand for the lesser-knowns americans, the people that lost their hope. they will not vote. i gave seven years of service so they could vote. i left two friends in the desert 20 years ago, so you

could vote. i hope he will reconsider. there are a lot of things to talk about. my website is hill2012.com. there are a lot of things to cover. i hope we have a chance to talk about them. >> thank you. jeff lawman. >> but me say thank you -- let me say thank you to the state of new hampshire for preserving democracy. i am jeff lawman, a new hampshire resident. it is an easy name to remember and fitting for a presidential candidate. i represent a traditional republican platform in agreement with new hampshire values -- fiscally conservative, socially moderate, environmentally progressive. i encourage you to visit my website where i have outlined a clear path to prosperity.

contrary to what the top candidates pander to, no one in my neighborhood spends their day resetting the live free or die model, rather we live it. we never forget the role of the cable is to assist the needy. when a 10-day power outage threatens a neighbor, we immediately respond. there is no choice. it is a matter of duty and human decency. 2012 is a year of choices. rather than complain about government failure or excessive campaign influenced and concentrating authority within the elite seal, i focused on national solutions and run for the highest office as a complete unknown. on january 10, new hampshire voters will have a choice to left the most qualified

candidate that represents america's working families, or we can't elect big money, establishment-supported brand names. if we choose the latter, we will return in four years and discussed by and nothing has changed -- and discuss why nothing has changed. >> mr. benjamin linn. >> hello. i was born in 1973, which makes me the youngest candidate appeared. i want to say thank you to st. anselm college for inviting us. the reason i'm running is because america is in a big mess right now. we have a president said he would end the wars within the first one-to-3 -- two years of his administration. if he would have, we could use

those resources to rebuild america and we would be recovering. instead, this economy has gone from bad to worse. i am pro-life, pro-family. i believe and support the traditional marriage of one man and one woman. liberals are trying to say the two men or to the women recognize as legally married is normal. to me, that is not normal. i am raising a nine-year-old son, and i want him to have opportunities like a i did. i think it is time to pull troops out of iraq and afghanistan and bring them home. let the people in the middle east run their countries. our job is not to beat the police men of the world. when you have fellow americans

losing jobs, that is not a republican or democrat problem. that is an america problem. from george washington to george w. bush, we have an $8 trillion debt and president obama will double bed in four years. america cannot afford that. no matter who you vote for, we have to get out and vote. if you do not like the way your government is working, we need to vote a different way compared to how we voted for change in 2008. >> thank you michael meehan -- thank you. michael meehan. >> hello. i am not a politician. i'm a real estate broker, and there is no works, so let's go into politics, right? [laughter]

>> i've been doing this for over a year, and i realize how people are really angry. most people do not know that people are nervous. they are worried about their kids. for some reason, i did not know why, what hit me to become president, but i decided it was something i had to do. i'm made it official when i told my wife. that is another two minutes. i did decide to come to new hampshire. where else can you talk to people when-on-one and get a chance to hear what people are saying? as i go around, i have little book, if you were standing in front of the president of the united states, not the current one and bought myself, but someone everybody liked and you

had one question or comment, what would it be? one is why are we spending money over there what we should be spending it here? why are people driving around on cadillacs and on welfare and i'm working for $8 an hour? they want us to bring our boys home. it's amazing what they say and they don't answer me stupid. they think about it before they say it. i get a kick out of it how the people really do care. they want something better. but what i tell everybody is, i'm going to new hampshire and i've been here since the ninth of november. i've been from kina all the way up to pittsburgh. i had to get up there before the real winter hit and work my way back down. what if somebody like me could finish in the top five? most of the people running are not even here.

where are they? i keep ending up right behind him. >> you've got to wrap up. >> what if? what if we just took a chance? instead of the regular people up there, what if one of us could finish in the top five? new hampshire would no longer be the barometer for who would be the president. >> thank you very much. our last opening remarks. it two minutes, sir. >> abraham lincoln quoted the bible to remind us that a house divided against itself cannot stand. yet, as a nation, a division is growing on art -- and our values are becoming polluted and unclear. our american culture once defined was doubly principles is disappearing and we are at war

with an enemy that has invaded our homeland. i am jo's story and i'm running for president of the united states. the 10 commandments served as the basis of our common law when america was born as a nation. christian principles defined our existence. the supreme court affirmed we are a christian nature -- christian nation with liberty of conscience to all men. yet today, america is in trouble. we failed to hold our elected a thistle's accountable and we have become spoiled by -- elected officials accountable and have been spoiled by what a government with unlimited spending does for us. it is frightening that 10 million children we should be raising with american values

have been replaced by illegal aliens with an known values and unknown intent. these isolated cultures serve to divide us and weaken our society. people who choose to live in america must be integrated into our culture. we should respect the differences while ensuring we are of one mind and one purpose on behalf of america's future. spies and terrorists have invaded our country and we must identify and isolate these enemies within our border before they strike again. unite with me to restore america, to restore trust in god, individual liberty, and equality before the law. together, we can face the world with courage and confidence. as we restore honor to our

government and of our schools and business organizations. take action and pray and vote joe story, just an average american, running for president of the united states. thank you. that ends the opening remarks. are now going to our panelists. the panelists will each ask a question. we will randomly picked a candidate and the candidate will have 45 seconds. we're going to be tough on the time so we can keep it moving. the first question -- lastght here at st. anne's week at a forum with former speaker gingrich and former ambassador and spent -- former

ambassador huntsman, they both agreed iran is the biggest problem for the united states in the coming decade. do you agree with that and more importantly, what should the united states do about iran? >> very good question. we advocate a nuclear strike on iran's nuclear site. this is also what rick santorum came out in the last debate. iran is very, very close to getting nuclear-weapons. it could be -- the revolutionary guard has claimed they could have nuclear-tipped missiles by march. the time to act now -- the time to act is now. must help israel. if iran gets nuclear weapons, america is going to be attacked in addition to iran. >> how many people believe the iranians are in possession of material to either make a

nuclear weapon or have already? a show of hands. that's relatively unanimous. the second question tonight -- >> what reforms do you see are still needed to prevent another fiscal crisis like we had in 2007 and 2008? >> regarding the banking? >> yes. >> basically what i feel, the housing, you cannot just give people a house with no money down. i've been in real estate for many, many years. when things get to be a problem, they walk away. what the banks did is they turned around -- the appraisers had to appraise for a higher sum of money because if they didn't,

they would get someone else. the banks are making the loans and charging the fees. all the sudden, you've got these different things. you have to eliminate that kind of stuff. >> we have to stop there. >> we are on a college campus for this debate. they are considering laws to allow guns on college campuses. there was recently a second shooting at virginia tech. as a presidential candidate, what's your position on gun control, particularly the issue of guns on college and university campuses? >> i would say whatever campus security, or fee of police on

the campus trained to carry a gun, those would be the only ones would have a gun to protect the students. but with students and professors, no guns allowed on campus. if a student is caught with a gun, you are expelled from school. >> thank you. the next question is for mr. davis. >> what should the united states do in regards to the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in this country? do you favor a path to legalization? >> one thing i would do is control the borders. i would give every alien in the country one year to register. i want their fingerprints and i want their id. i would give the work visa and for or five years to be part of

the community, learn english, obey the laws and then i would give them citizenship. but we need to control the border. the alien issue is so big that nobody wants to touch it. i'm not for amnesty, but i am for a pass to citizenship. >> next question is for mr. brewer. >> this is the largest field of candidates, with 44 of you who have filed in that new hampshire primary to run for president, since 1992. why do you think the field is so large this cycle? >> probably because obama takes more vacations and plays more golf, and we can only imagine it will double in his second term. we might as well go in there and do some work. >> what would you do about that? >> the first thing i would do is

try my ideas offered earlier, call jesus, communicate with afterlife, and make it a good deal for everyone. in the long run, what else do we have to work with? >> the next question is for mr. story. >> what do you believe the government should do to provide health care for people who do not have insurance yet can still not afford to go to the doctor? >> one of the things we should be doing is to encourage the education of people to become doctors. we provide a lot of money to doctors for education, but we don't create institutions or locations where people can access doctors that have been trained. beyond that, we should create a different means of actually

funding these programs. i call it the american benefits corp., for all the benefits the government now has control of, we should move it into a benefit corporation. all the companies that have bought and the benefits themselves, if you put that into an organization and provide it for them rather than having social security, if you bought stock in that company, you'd have your retirement benefits that way. >> next question. >> could you tell us what you offer america as president if you are elected that the so- called front runners like former speaker gingrich, congressman paul, mitt romney and the others to not? what qualifications do you have that making a better candidate? >> as an underdog candidate, one

of the benefits is you can offer unpopular realistic and effective solutions without worrying about losing your front runner status. without being part of a larger party process, you can be free to evaluate problems uniquely and specifically and offer the best solution as opposed to needing to pander to lobbyists or other interest groups. >> thank you. the next question is for mr. christopher hill. >> in your opening statement -- in your opening statement, you talk about the lesser known americans. can you tell me what you do to help those people? >> we need to start by beginning to restore the middle class in america. the middle-class is what made america great. the lesser known americans are out there, the people i work with. i'm an airline captain and a lot of times i've worked the

graveyard shift in the middle of the night. i work with people working for $10 an hour from midnight to 7:00 a.m. lead to put into place a tax system that lets them keep the money they earn. if you go to my website, i talk specifically about allowing people to keep money, up to two under $50,000, that they earn. i am open to taxing the rich above $250,000 and letting them offer help to the people do need help out there. >> thank you. >> the next question. >> the recently were mentioned in a "wall street journal" article about the lesser known candidates running for president. i assume that you saw that. the article referenced during a

prior economic turndown that you lost your business. i wanted to ask you how the current administration is handling the home mortgage crisis and at the other financial crises our country faces. >> i think the current administration is doing what he believes is the right path, but unfortunately, it is not the right path for the americans undergoing the downturn. the making home affordable plan, cash for clunkers, all of these things have been temporary band-aids that have produced no long-term solutions. the solutions intended to help millions of people have often only benefited thousands and i think that's fallen short of his commitment and obligation. i it's vastly short of what he was intending as well. >> -- i think it falls of vastly short of what he was intending as well. >> next question is for mr.

crow. >> in your opening statement, you talked about how you used to be in the gasoline business. can you talk to me about what you would do to put together a comprehensive energy policy if you were to become president? >> i think because i was of the retail gasoline business in 1973, i blame it the major oil companies. i believe the war's going on in the world are manipulated by the major oil companies because they are trying to get rid of the supply coming get the price up, and destroy the currencies. this is a long-term game plan with them. we've got to get tough with them. all this is about is running

people out of business and dave -- they ran us out of the business years ago when they cut down the supply. but this is what is going on and there are a lot of things you can do. you can make the company's best. they are monopolies and the need to be broken up. >> while our panelists get ready for our next round of questions, like to ask you a quick question. all of you have talked about your ideology and opening statements, how many of you would support whomever the republican nominee is for president, whether it's one of you or the other candidates? say newt gingrich was the nominee. hollywood support the nominee of the republican party? romney -- how many would support the nominee of the republican party? ron paul? rick perry?

just checking. >> and the rest of them, too. >> what anybody vote for barack obama or support barack obama in any way if one of you or you yourself did not become the nominee? fair question. our next round of questions, the first question will be asked for mr. jeff lawmen. >> we've had attorneys, businessmen and even an actor as president. as an engineer, what would your expertise, how would you bring that to the office of the president? >> i can't guarantee that more engineers and politics will solve our crises, but it's a good start. we offer a solution is the space

program for everything. we're not bound by political rigidity, corporate financing, campaign finances. we believe solutions are the best approach even if there about the most popular. one thing engineers have is an ability to iterate, stimulate, and model solutions. optimization is something most engineers and scientists can offer that you will not find any other profession. >> the next question is for joe story. >> mr. story, one of the most important things presidents to is a port -- is appoint justices to the supreme court. i anticipate the next president will have at least two such appointments and perhaps even more. could you share with us the names of some people you might consider to a point to the supreme court or the qualifications and credentials you would be looking for in

such nominees? >> it qualifications and credentials would be looking for would be a strict constitutional construction judgement decisions they've had in the past and plan on using in the future. decisions made from the bench should not be based on precedent, even on supreme court precedent. it should be based on the constitution. we have lost so many of our values because of the court decisions that stretch the value -- stretch the boundaries of what the constitution actually says and means. therefore, if you go to my website, we will see greater clarification and i appreciate your time. >> thank you. for mr. brewer, the next question. >> can you tell me what role do

you feel, the think religion and faith plays in the presidency? >> everything i count on has to be measured, so that's what i do. a measure things. i paint pictures. from listening to people on the internet and all over the place, i find that everybody is so close. some people get so close with their ego that they think they're gods sometimes. but when you listen to your inner thoughts, you get the solutions to everything in life. we are at the point now where we can measure it. >> the next question. >> as we all know, north koreans

north -- north korean's -- north korea possible leader died this week. what policies would continue, what would you change and how would you handle it could be the second most dangerous situation in the world and could become the most dangerous situation with that country, which is also close to nuclear-weapons? >> yes sir, it's a grave danger and north korea fired a couple of muscles of the "-- off the coast there, very antagonistic act. it's a very dangerous situation that this country as nuclear- weapons and i think we should be harsh on them economically. i feel like we should cut off all aid to north korea until they give up their nuclear program, and i think that, after we deal with iran and possibly

the problem of pakistan, they have many nuclear weapons also, once we deal with those countries, we should turn our attention to north korea and apply pressure to get them to give up their nuclear weapons or take military action against them at some point. >> the next question is for mr. crow. >> can you talk to me about what the president can do and what kind of policies he can pass to help small business owners? >> i think there has been a concerted effort to run all kinds of people out of business. i have a lot of problems with the federal reserve. one thing i would do is get rid of it and start issuing money by the government and not letting the bank stirrers make said interest. i think they're doing everything for themselves and

big business. they're not loaning money. they got $13 trillion and they are not putting it on main street. the first thing i think i would do is get rid of the federal reserve and that would be step one. >> thank you. the next question is going to mr. mann. >> the state of new hampshire has legalized gay marriage. do you support gay marriage or civil unions? >> no. >> which mind elaborating on that? >> i don't care for the question because at this point, at the history in the united states,

this is not a national issue, it's a personal issue. they even go after candidates for asking things like this. there are so many different things out there we could be talking about and dealing about to fix the country. i don't find this an issue at all. >> thank you. >> if you were to win the republican nomination and the convention or to prescribe you had to pick one of the current candidates appearing in the national debates as your running mate, who would you pick and why? >> i can't say i'm adequately prepared for that eventuality.

[laughter] >> give it a shot. >> i think mitt romney. >> why? >> there's no denying his success in business and experience in government previously. i have a lot of confidence he could channel those skills. >> for john davis, your next question please. >> mr. davis, do you acknowledge climate change is scientifically proven fact and, if so, what do you think that government should do to reduce its effects? >> i have not studied it a lot. there's so much information out there, it's hard to know what to believe. i'm afraid i don't have a good answer for you. i do believe if we drill like

crazy in this country, we need to take care of the earth and take care of the air and be responsible. there is a middle ground there. we have some information, but i don't know if it's true. i have to do some investigation on that. >> mr. hill, on going to ask you to assume one of your most generation -- most generous campaign donors has offered to finance a commercial for your campaign. what would you put in that campaign and what would you say? >> the images i would use would reflect how great this country is. we are in a lot of trouble in this country. we have $15 trillion in debt and 9% unemployment. i worked at an airline that worked in 48 of the 50 states and the images i've seen around this country are incredible.

images like mount rushmore, the grand canyon, images like the face of people who are homeless that need our help. i don't mind putting those images there and the message would be pretty simple -- it's us that have to step up to the plate. we can't count on anybody else anymore. it's got to be we the people. it cannot be politicians. if we count on them again, we will go down the same road again and we will be sitting here the next election cycle. >> thank you very much. the final question. >> you talked earlier about the need to leave afghanistan. do you have an exit strategy for getting american troops out of the country? >> i think they should be out of the country right now. we have not lived up to the deadlines. this president, before he was elected, said him and the democrats would end of the war's in one or two years.

we cannot broadcast to our enemy when we're going to leave. we have to train the military and police force and slowly their country and hand power over to them without broadcasting it to the world. in iraq, the president is going to pull out troops before christmas but we will still have troops there. the war is not ended. we will have troops in afghanistan until 2016 and iraq until 2014. this president is not living up to its promises. i will and the wars on day one. get toe going to try to one more round of questions. in order to do that, we have to be brief. let's stick tight to 45 seconds. the first question is for mr. joe story. >> the supreme court is about to

take up the issue of president obama's health-care law that was passed during his administration. do you support that law and, if not, what would you replace it with? >> i do not support that law at all. we need to get the government out of the benefits business and out of the business world out -- business world altogether. the government should be the government and provide for our defense. that's based from the constitution. if we separate everything out and put them into a benefits corp. and put gm and all the other corporations the government has bought, actually we the people have bought, and we put those resources out along with the payments that come from our physical resources and put it into a corporation that operates for profit and for our benefit, we could have some major improvements in our country. >> what would your first act be

if elected president? >> obviously there's a separation of power and the government. for my most important issue regarding returning fiscal discipline, it's not something the president has the singular ability to act on. i would spend most of the time trying to bring that issue to the forefront of the american mind set through speeches and meeting with congress so they can apply pressure to the other branches of government to make that their top issue as well. >> for mr. brewer -- >> i would like to ask you to follow-up on what he said in your opening remarks about the immigration issue. if you were elected president, what would you do with regard to that hot topic in american

politics? >> i support everybody on the planet. i don't care who you are. it's not my place to criticize or complain about anybody. i offered different options for the person who can complain about everybody. >> for the lesser-known candidates appear, it can be hard -- lesser known candidates up here, it can be hard to get your message out. what should be changed about presidential election process to make easier for lesser known candidates to be able to reach the voters? >> maybe a little bit of air time wouldn't hurt. going persong is to person and talking to

newspapers. one newspaper turned down a lesser-known candidate and wouldn't even write an article on him. i find that some of us have the ideas and people just don't want to hear them because they want to believe the major candidates have all the answers and that's of fluke right there, isn't it? >> the next question is for mr. linn. >> governor perry of texas, one of your competitors for the nomination, has suggested members of congress should have their pay and time spent in washington cut in half. do you agree or disagree with governor perry and why? >> i agree with him because they're already making too much money. a lot of these are professionals who are doctors and lawyers and are already making a lot of

money in the real world. i would definitely cut their pay in half. they don't need all that money and until they get to work for us, we don't need to pay them. it's time for congress, the senate, and the president to wake up and start working for the american people. we need to cut their pay. when they start to work for us, we will give them a raise later on. they're just not doing their job. >> the next question is for mr. davis. >> some of the candidates have talked about wanting to get rid of some government agencies. the department of energy for example. do you see this as a path for reducing the size of government? >> i do. when i would get rid of is the department of education. i think it should go down to the state and to the communities. who knows better how to educate your kids in this community than the people in the community and the parents?

the government is just too big and takes all our money and spend it. it's up to the community to educate their kids. >> mr. crow, your next question. >> our government is based on having three separate but equal branches of government. yesterday, on a sunday morning talk show you may not have seen because you are probably campaigning, former speaker gingrich suggested if the dive -- if the supreme court made a decision the president did not agree with, perhaps it would be ok or proper for the president cannot enforce that decision and cited some historical examples. do you agree with him or not and why?

>> i definitely disagree. it's part of the balance of power. we're never going to have anything close to a balance of power until you stop the bribery. if you make money from the government or get money from the government, you contribute. you've got the executive branch that in my opinion, has walked into the direction of a dictatorship, mainly because they get so much money from people that get them elected and direct them. the money has got to be taken out first, but we need three branches of government. >> thank you. >> the next question is for mr. hill. iscongress'approval rating at an all-time low and people

feel it's difficult for congress to be able to do anything. if you were elected president, how would you work it to get bills passed and see your policies through congress? >> the reason congress' popularity is so low is because they failed america. we need to put term limits in place for congress. i would begin as president leading the american people calling on an amendment in the constitution for term limits for congress. that's the most vital thing it will redirect this country. when i was 16 and worked for ronald reagan 30 years ago, some of the same members in the house and senate are still serving today. the problem is not with president for the american people. the problem is with congressman and senators that serve 30 or 40 years in this country and have turned washington d.c. into an aristocracy. >> the next question is for mr.

lawman. >> you are running for the office of president of the united states. until 1952, we did not have term limits for the president and a lot of people think that was a mistake, to impose to terms on the president because most second terms since then have not been particularly successful. what is your opinion? we've heard another panelist opinion on term limits for congress. should there be a to term limits for the president of the united states and why or why not? >> i absolutely do believe we should maintain the to term limits. even though it had not been enacted until after fdr, but up until him, even though the law did not require it, there was no president that had more than that.

no more than two terms for senate and four terms for house. that keeps america turning over new ideas and of faces. it's ridiculous to think with 311 million people in this country that only 535 have answers and solutions. that leaves another 310 million who have no voice and have better solutions and answers than the ones you will find. >> the last question is addressed to dr. cort. to stray ... from iran for a moment and ask you about the theme of the jobs, jobs, jobs. but as president, what would be the first thing you would do to grow jobs in america? >> that is a very good question.

our economy is going off a cliff, the huge tarp giveaway and the giveaways obama has done ruin the economy. we have to stop this runaway spending in congress. we have to slash spending and do away with the fed. i am in favor of ron paul's idea of having gold going back to the gold standard. >> thank you for your answers and time tonight. thank you for adhering to what was fairly quick time, but we did get chance to go through three times were as we usually only do once. i would like to thank everyone but dr. cort for a hearing to my

memo about blue blazers. the democrats are up next. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> we're going to get started again. while we are getting us that back together come across as for continuing to join us we had a

great session and now we get a chance to have a session with our friends from the other side. we will try and adhere to the same rules as before. there are 44 candidates running for president who are here on the ballot. the candidates were asked to permit -- to take place in tonight's debate were all registered and on the ballot in new hampshire, running for the nomination for the office of president who have not been part of any other national debate. that was the criteria to be here tonight. we're going to try to do this in a manner that is as expedient as possible. each candidate will be giving it to minute opening. -- will be given a two-minute opening. i will let the candidate know when we get to 15 seconds. when you see that sign, that's

an indication you are at 15 seconds. the panelists will ask you questions and you have 45 seconds to answer the questions. but me read introduce our panelists. let's give them all a warm hand. there is a button to turn on your microphone when it's time for you to speak. make sure you turn the button on what i call on you so the cameras can pick up your audio. let's start at the far end of the table. let me introduce mr. ed kelly, dr. bob green, mr. john d. hayward, mr. robert jordan from garden grove, calif., mr edward

o'donnell jr., mr. berman supreme -- mr. vermin supreme. let's welcome all of our democratic lesser-known candidates tonight. [applause] we will start down at the far end of the table. a two minute opening statement, please. >> hello. i am a writer-thinker who has been published on three continents and i've got some important ideas about our most serious problems, most of which are ignored by the establishment. my most basic messages, let's get organized, americans and start solving our top problems. how? we asked obama and all national politicians worldwide, do you

agree mr. president top five problems of the planet are the nuclear-tipped arms race? is the only problem that can destroy us. with ozone on the outside rail. by solving it, we can save in trillions of dollars. to combat excessive population growth. 3, the holy corporate global market economy. for, disparity between the rich and poor, within nations, a disparity between nations. and 5, the environment. the master of ceremonies problem that never leaves us, that we solve only in degrees. if you do not agree, mr. president, what are the top five problems of the planet and what where is your plan to solve it? please understand i do not have the answers. it is weak, not me. we, the 4 billion adults who get it done daily are on the globe

have the answers to our top problems. president obama, snow white and the seven dwarfs, i say if you don't like these ideas, come up with something better and the world wide debate will have begun. edcowan2012.com for more information and thank you for your attention. >> you have two minutes please. >> my name is bob greene. i held a ph.d. in physics. i have some very good news for you. i'm running to educate the candidates, media and public to a tremendous opportunity available to the united states now. i am here to tell you about fordham, and overlooked energy alternative. we have enough thorium for all

our power needs for over a thousand years. a lifetime supply for a single person is about the size of a golf ball. for more details, please go to my website. with fuel cells, which could stop importing foreign oil. this means we will be able to stop fighting oil wars. reactors can become a major export industry that equals jobs and an improved economy. energy is a large component of manufacturing a variable costs. cheap local power will revitalize the manufacturing sector. manufacturing and shipping a reactor at day, we could replace all fossil fuel plants in 50 years. this should stall climate change and global warming.

because this technology can process our millions of tons of existing nuclear waste, we might be able to use the 10% of the 24 billion nuclear wastes sitting on the site for nuclear development. we need to mount a project with the enthusiasm in seal of the apollo project asap and make this a reality. last january 25, the chinese academy of science announced the official launch of the thorium based system and intend to have all the intellectual property rights. this going to happen without us. are we going to be a leader or a customer? >> mr. haywood, your opening statements, please. >> my name is john haywood and i'm from durham, north carolina. i have three main proposals.

the first is health care. i've proposed replacing our for- profit health care with a national health service modeled on the british national health service. that british system works. it has been in place for 63 years and is popular with people. it is incredibly more efficient. at 42% are cost, with a savings of over a trillion dollars a year. it covers everyone. life expectancy is greater. the service is paid out of a progressive tax system as opposed to a regressive premium tax imposed by the health insurance industry.

second, i propose a return to a steep and progressive income tax, specifically the 1965 kennedy-johnson code. the reasons for proposing that is it is fair, it ends money according -- and money hoarding. under the code, the top 1% of households receive 10% of the income. today, that 1% receives 24% of the nation's income. third, it grows the middle class. fifth, it will street -- it will shrink the debt. seventh, it will save capitalism. without a strong and progressive tax, it all goes to the top.

>> i am going to have to stop you there. >> opening remarks are for mr. jordan. two minutes. mr. jordan is not here. that is mr. o'donnell. >> we need love, kindness, mercy, tolerance, friendliness, forgiveness, second chances, and old fashion matters. no guns. the greeks said a blood test came the savages of man and make gentle life of the world. no wars, a guaranteed job for everyone, paid for with private charity dollars. mental health courses in high school and a non-violent foreign-policy based on feeding,

clothing, educating of the third world poor. christmas is the most wonderful event in world history. the message is no matter how much of a mess someone has made of their life, if they make a decision to love other people, there can be a happy ending. when my niece was very young, i said why is santa claus always happy? she said because all he does is give. thank you. >> and an opening two minutes for a mr.vermin supreme. >> gingivitis have been eroding the gum line of this country for too long. our country's future depends on its ability to fight back.

we can no longer be a nation and injured. at our very salivation is at stake. together, we must brace ourselves as we cross over the bridge work into the 23rd century, let us bite the bullet and together, make america a sea of shining smiles from sea to shining sea. some people will tell you this mandatory toothbrushing what is about the secret dental police kicking down your door at 3:00 to make sure you have brushed. it is not. some will meant in the dental reeducation centers or the dental reeducation facilities. it's about none of these things or is it about the government's toothpaste. it's not even about dna gene splicing to create a race of winged monkeys to act as tooth fairy's. what the mandatory toothbrushing lot is about is strong teeth for

a strong america. my name is vermin supreme. i may for in fascist and you should let me run your life because i do know what is best for you. yes, i politician, i will promise you anything your electoral heart desires because you are my constituents. and because i have no intention of keeping a promise i make, vote early, vote often. a vote for vermin supreme is a vote completely thrown away. i would like to acknowledge my mother who is here in the audience today. please stand up. she's going to try to stand up. this is my mother. and five years ago this april, i gave her a kidney. my challenge to you the people, everybody in the audience, give up a kidney. >> thank you, mr. supreme.

>> i just wanted to that -- i just want to know what i do wrong but i have to be after that. brock obama may go down in history as the worst president we've ever had. the worst. -- barack obama may go down in history as the worst president we have ever had. if i were elected president of the united states, or someone who had my ideas was elected, that would mean we have liberty. liberty is to find you are not compelled to labor for the benefit of another. the essence of socialism, which we have become a social state, is that you are forced to labor for the benefit of another. foreign-policy needs to be based on human rights, not upon our oil interests and deepwater ports. right now, we are propping up islamic dictatorships and paying

for terrorism at the gas pump. every time we buy gasoline, some of that money goes to saudi arabia, who turns around and gives it to various terrorist organizations. if we were not giving the money to states funding islamic terrorism, a human-rights to be front and center instead of will. next, the courts, most of the major paradigm shifts in this country have come through the courts, not through elected officials. we are seeing what could be defined as a ruling unelected oligarchy and they need to be reined in. finally, president lincoln said could be the civil war was the judgment of god? that every drop of blood that was drawn by the masters with would be repaid on the field of battle? we have come to be in same place as a nation where we have killed over 52 million of our children by abortion. that blood, like the blood of the slaves, is crying out to god

for judgment. we will never restore the greatness of this nation as long as we are killing our own offspring. go to my web site if you would like to see my television ads and read more about our principles. thank you. >> mr. wolf, two minutes. >> i'm an attorney from chattanooga tennessee. i'm happy to be here tonight and thank you for the gracious of your invitation. i would like to say i do not think we are a socialist country. you have one-fifth of the people who own one fifth of be -- the top 1% make 23% of the national income. i don't think that's much proof of socialism. i am in this race not to countermand my friend here, but i am in the race because there is a progressive void left here

by president obama. president obama is a democrat, but president obama has lost the promise of the democratic party and the promise of his administration and the promise of this country. he has basically sided with wall street from the day he has been in office. most of his funding comes from wall street. he surrounds himself with people like erskine bowles, people like jeffrey campbell -- jeffrey imult, and have a lot of influence on the oval office and finance his campaigns. the product of all of this is an administration that has policies that are favorable to wall street, but not to main street. president obama opposes a 1% tax on wall street derivatives, especially the instruments that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama opposes a legal wall of separation which we had during the new deal up until

1999 that would keep community banking free of speculation. banks could do their traditional function without involved in a casino capitalism and president obama has not tried to stop that. with a progressive to get in there and fill the void and do the things the president to had some much promise and personality has failed to do, and that is the breach of want to fill and hope to answer your questions after this meeting and during the time allotted to us. >> thank you. that concludes the opening statements of the to the candidates. we will now go to our panelists who will alternate asking decant it's a question. remember, 45 seconds so we can get through as much as possible. the clock is right over here. at 15 seconds, it we will hold that up. the first question is for mr.

wolf. you have 45 seconds. >> thank you for your opening statement. i would add that he not only keeps the time but wrote the law that made the new hampshire primary and kept it first. i would recommend you follow his directives. following on to your opening statement, i think everyone agrees we have a really serious deficit problem in the united states and you have identified that as one of your big issues. it appears we could also agree nothing seems to be getting done to address it. what, specifically, if you were elected president, what three steps which youtake to get our r control? >> the deficit is a -- is at $15 trillion right now. my philosophy is that we cannot have contraction in the economy. if you cut down right now and the recession, you will make the

recession worse. right now, you do not have to fear inflation from the stimulus. i do not think it will create inflation because the money will go directly to community banks. it will go to small businesses. it will go to credit-worthy individuals. we need to get people back to work. you can add to the by contracting the economy. if you contract the economy during a recession, you will compound the recession. an alternative federal reserve to lend money directly to the local people, we can get these local entities and get america back to work. we cannot have an austerity program with the ideas that the democrats and republicans have promoted. it is wrong. it is counterintuitive. >> this question is for dr. green from the union leader. >> dr. green, you talk about

thorium as being the solution to the nation's energy problems. it can you tell me how you get thorium?. 4:00 a.m. >> you get a by mining. you can start by mining the tailings of already front lines. you can also try the coal ash pits. that is another way. it is so abundant. it is in your garden. we have large concentrations of it in the west. >> how do use this to get energy? you have to put it in the reactor were you bombarded with neutrons and that is when it releases the energy. >> dr. green, thank you.

the next question is from ambassador shoemaker. >> mr. terry, i have a two-part question for you. do you believe in state's rights? and new hampshire is one of the six states that has recognized gay marriage. do you believe that states rights should control on this issue or do you believe that there should be a national law mandating what each state should do with regard to this particular private right that new hampshire citizens enjoyed? >> the founders gave us the 10th amendment to keep the federal government from micromanaging the vast majority of details that would affect us as a country. however, they could never have conceived of a moment in which we would become so debauched that we would elevate homosexual marriage or civil unions to the

level of marriage, which has been with us since the dawn of time. take it out of this debate and take into child killing with abortion or slavery. there is some things that are fundamentally evil and there is another state right to own another human being. there is no state right to kill your offspring. there is no state right to have homosexual marriage. absolutely, it is a deal breaker. >> thank you, mr. terry. the next question. >> the government -- in the political debate during the presidential election, there has been a lot of discussion about what disparity and how the

welfare having more money and the lower middle class is shrinking. can you tell me what you would do as president to reduce that wealth the disparity? wealth disparity? >> yes, we need to change the tax rates so it goes after the money the top enlightens load of the middle class and the lower classes. i have had some experience working graveyard shift on the minimum wage or near it. you can begin to live on what poor people are making. there is a tremendous disparity and it needs to change. it certainly is not christian. thank you. >> the next question is for mr. hayward. that comes from ambassador shoemaker. >> welcome, mr. hayward.

i saw in recent full-page ad that your campaign took out in the newspaper. you criticize president obama for his unwarranted, in your opinion, extension of the bush tax cuts and stating that president obama was a week and and principled leader and called for him to step aside so that you could be elected president and and the great recession. could you elaborate how you would do that? >> back to the johnson-kennedy tax plan -- excuse me -- you have to redistribute the weight. thank you. >> take a drink and i will come

back to you. you're not quite ready. we will come back to you. is that all right? all right. let's move on. the next question will be for mr. o'donnell. >> in your opening statement, you said there should be no guns. are you saying that all guns in the united states should be made illegal and that no one should be allowed to have a handgun? >> including for hunting. in england, holland, japan, australia, no one has a gun. 20 to 30 gun murders all of last year. we had 40,000. there is no need for guns. >> let me follow-up on that. how many of you folks on the stage tonight believe the second amendment is a bad thing? anybody else? mr. o'donnell?

just you? >> what is your question? >> do people have the right to keep and bear arms? >> of course. >> i was just questioning if mr. o'donnell had any support for that. all right. mr. hayward, how are you feeling? pre hydrated? >> yes, sir. >> alright, go ahead. >> i could state fourth of the reasons for which i think we should go back to the kennedy- johnson tax plan. it was fair. it grows the middle class. it distributes the money. it provides the income for the government to spend on public works projects. president obama has proposed replacing a lot of our infrastructure. but he does not have the money to do it with. bridges, a about source systems, water systems,

roads, and buildings. >> thank you, mr. hayward. the final question is for vermin supreme. >> mr. supreme, welcome back. like other candidates, including former governor romney, this is not your first rodeo. this is not the first time you have run for president in the new hampshire primary. >> correct. >> romney has been accused of taking depositions on different issues. i am asking you right now if you still stand by your pledge made in 2008 to provide a pony for every american? >> yes, i do, sir. free ponies for all americans, one of the overlooked issues in america today. my free pony platform is a jobs creation program. it will create lots and lots of

jobs when we switch over to a county-based economy. we will be able to turn all of that pony poop into methane gas and one full compost. we will be able to free up the soil that is being depleted by chemicals, etc., etc., etc. the important thing to realize is that there needs to be a pawlenty identification program. >> that is our first round of questions for the candidates. i want to ask this question. how many of you on the stage tonight will support some variations more with the democrats than with the republicans? how many of you will support president obama if he is the nominee of your party? two of you. three of you. the rest of you will look for republicans?

what? undecided. anybody else? >> i will write myself in. i am the best candidate. [applause] but the good man. >> we may have found some running mates tonight. let's begin with a second round of questioning. we will start this time with beth hall for mr. o'donnell. i am. o'donnell, understand that charitable giving and contributing to communities is very important to you. what would you do to help those at the bottom if you were president? >> every church, every synagogue, every mosque, every temple, every quaker meeting, if the coordinated every homeless person could sleep inside each

night with a nice mattress, a nice blankets, food, love, friendliness. i would coordinate that program. the greatest thrill in the world is to help a homeless person, a prisoner turn their life around. >> the next question is for mr. cowan from mr. shoemaker. >> this debate is taking place on a college campus. because of the loss of equity in many americans' homes, loss of employment, and the stability of both parents and students to get loans, it is becoming harder and harder for students to attend colleges such as this. there is a serious threat that pell grants and other governmental funding will cut even more availability of funds for tuition. if students are our future -- i

would ask you if you agree with that and that education will determine the future of this country -- what are your solutions for this serious crisis? >> there is no question that university and colleges are expensive. there are plenty of them in america. that is one of the assets we have. i would like to see a slower tuition whenever possible. we need means of pumping money into education. i totally agree that we need to absorber the federal reserve into the treasury department. it is a collection of banks, basically. we need for the federal reserve to be absorbed into the treasury department and have a lot more money available to loan to

colleges and for tuition. >> mr. terry, your next question comes from the call. -- from death hall -- from beth hall. >> de you promote stronger regulations for clean air? >> know. absolutely not. it is getting more like i am writing on the good ship lollipop. we talk about raising taxes on the rich and dump more money to colleges and that we need a progressive income tax. people, we are going broke. this is a debt that will crush our children. it will never be paid back. this nonsense of taking the money from the rich is based on jealousy and greed and cover business. ness.d covetous nest

these ideas from the green movement will cripple us even more. china is welcoming the jobs. china is welcoming the money. how many jobs must we lose because the bowling down to snail-darters and polar bears? >> thank you, mr. terry. >> mr. green, this question was submitted by a student here. as you know, because you live in new england, it gets very cold up here in the winter. our region is heavily dependent on heating oil. if elected, what would be your position on the proposed drastic cuts in the heating assistance programs that

help poor people keep their families warm in the winter? would you support those cuts in order to balance the budget or would you restore the funding? >> i do not support those cuts. i would restore the funding. i think we show an incredible lack of imagination in our fund- raising ability. i have identified about $2.40 trillion worth of new revenue that i could generate through three separate programs. they would be barely felt by the populace. i would go to a royalty system on patents. i would go to tariff. and i would go to a different way of calculating the a.m. tee on corporate income taxes. -- the amt on corporate income taxes.

>> mr. supreme, all wanted to go back to shoemakers's question regarding the pawlenty program. >> yes! >> what other entitlement -- the pony program. >> yes! >> what other entitlement programs do you support? >> we have giant turbines that we're working on and we will have lots of the zombies and dangle brains in front of them and turn the giant turbines turning the energy into oil here in america today. >> thank you. >> the next question is for mr. hayward from mr. shoemaker. >> yes, mr. hayward, president obama has been in office for over three years now. i would like you to be as

specific as you can. what has been his biggest missed opportunity in your opinion? what would you have done differently as president? i would ask you to respond on some issue rather than the tax piece you have already talked about. >> his biggest missed opportunity, mr. hayward. >> to lead us into national health service. >> could you elaborate, please? >> insurance schemes, whether they're medicaid, medicare, united health, bluecross united, they are not the answer. they are the problem. we have such an inefficiently run system. the british system runs of 42% of what we're paying. that would say this country $1

trillion per year. it is being paid as a regressive tax. insurance premiums are not a government tax, but they're still attacks. it is something that you have to pay for what you have to have. >> thank you. the final question is for mr. wolf. >> as you may or may not be aware, one well-known new hampshire resident walked across the united states in her elder years to draw awareness to her campaign finance reform. do you feel there is more than needs to be done to rein in the amount of money being spent in national politics? >> i think the only thing we can do now, given the supreme court decision of general 2010, citizens united, we will have to go ahead and probably get a constitutional amendment that redefines personal rights are

and exclude corporations. that is the only way we can get under the present law. i would be in favor of that appeare. the amount of money that fortune 500 people can spend every year is now limited. they do not have to report income from any source. this will have a terrible and deleterious result in lawmaking. it has already been happening. they can intimidate people in swing states because people have to march to that tune. i know that they do not march to a corporate tune. it will be inundated with money from their opponents. so we need a constitutional amendment. >> we are short on time for another round. what we have to do here is give each of you a 30-second quoclosg

statement. we will begin with mr. green. you have 30 seconds for a closing statement. >> thank you. i feel that i bring a totally different perspective due to my background in physics. physics teachers think widely and broadly and deeply. i would recommend that as one of my qualifications. i think we need to send a message to politicians that they have to talk seriously about energy. they are not doing that today. if they have any discussion that does not include the word thorium, you have not heard a serious energy discussion. also, the national labs have not served president obama welle in this regard. >> let's go to mr. kaelin. -- to mr. cowen.

>> at the center we find the banks sucking down the vitality of human civilization and it has to stop. i would say to conservatives -- jesus christ was a liberal, not a conservative or a reactionary roman who loved fat cat machines. jesus christ was about love. >> thank you, sir. mr. wolf, your closing 30-second statement, sir. >> i want to say that i want to be the progressive alternative to president obama. i want to represent the people. i do not think that you all should have austerity. i do not think you should have to pay for wall street's mistakes. through derivatives and speculative insurance throughout this economy, it ruined this economy and caused a meltdown. now they're trying to impose an

agenda of austerity on the people, cutting social security benefits, cut back on student loans, reducing the students to the port. that is wrong. we should tax wall street and corporations. taxes right now are the lowest ever since 1928 on the rich and we need to correct that are we will not have a good economy. >> thank you. next, mr. terry. 30 seconds. >> every person in here is made in the image of god. thomas jefferson in the declaration said that our rights come from god. all men are endowed by their creator, inalienable rights to liberty, to the pursuit of japanese. if we will be restored as a nation, we have -- pursuit of happiness. if we will be restored as a nation, we have to return to a source of ethics, the source of policy. if we are to become a nation of thieves, a nation that killed their children and instill a

perversion and wickedness and says this is good, then we will go the way of the greeks and of the romans and of the other empires that have perished before us. but if we are to be restored, we must return to life and liberty and justice under our creator. terryforpresident.org. >> vetos are the problem itself. had our country not embraced zionism, there would have been no 9/11, iraq war, afghanistan war. my proposal is that we stop be telling action by the united

nations and let the united nations -- stop vetoing by the united nations and let the united nations do what they are supposed to do and liberate the palestinian people. >> thank you. my name is vernon ♪ my name is vernon vermin, berman, vermin supreme [chicken dance song] jesus told me to make random sounds. wooo! he is turning day! he is turning gay!

>> thank you, mr. supreme. mr. o'donnell, and this with your final thoughts. >> jesus christ did one thing. he helped people. an afghan poet said that god has lit the fire of love in my heart. go to mcdonald's new class of street preachers. >> gentlemen, thank you very much for your time. let's give a hand to all the candidates and thank you for joining us for the democratic alternative debate. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

[no audio] >> it is primary day in new hampshire. this is a live look inside the media center in manchester, new hampshire. we are keeping our eye on some

of the messages. there is an absolute mob of media around romney appeared he hopes to double the margin in iowa. the webster school in manchester is crazy. it was nearly trampled by the huge media throng. again, this is the media center in manchester that will be busy all day until tonight. we will tell you about our live coverage in a moment. add facebook.com/c-span, you can also track us. weigh in with your thoughts -- have been tooack's

much influence? we will also look at the concession and victory speeches in the past. the polls close in new hampshire at 7:00 p.m. hour prime-time coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. tonight with the results -- our prime-time coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. tonight with the results. another look at the candidates making last-minute campaign stops in new hampshire. from exeter, this is jon huntsman. [cheers and applause] [chanting] >> huntsman! huntsman! huntsman! >> thank you, everybody.

i love that lady. i even love maureen. what a sweetheart. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, can you feel the momentum in the air? [applause] can you feel the energy out there, ladies and gentlemen? [applause] i do not know about you, every stop along the way, i hear the same thing. something is happening out there. something is happening. i have no idea what it will be tomorrow night. but i do know this. we will surprise a whole lot of people in this country tomorrow night. [cheers and applause] thank you all for being here. we came on june 21 to this hall.

we had a few people standing around and many of you are now old friends. there was this look of disbelief, a sense of in difference -- what is this candidate all about? tonight, we stand here with a great following in this state. you are all part of a movement and i'm grateful to have you as part of it. but since june 21 and last night, we, together, have gone 170 public events in the granite state. [cheers and applause] 170 evens, ladies and gentlemen, that is incredible. we have out-worked everybody. the people of this state do not want to be told who to vote and they do not want the establishment t up the same old people. they want a new generation of

leadership, a new generation of energetic leadership that will get the job done. you are part of that movement, folks. but let me remind you all of a couple of things before we shake hands and kind of move out. do we have work to do tonight and tomorrow? we have some work to do! but let me remind you first. i am grateful to be standing with you who are friends and colleagues and volunteers and supporters. i cannot think you enough. ladies and gentlemen, we have people from all over the country who are here. we have some folks who got in cars at the other end of the country and just drove. people got on buses and made their way because they believe in a better america. that is who you are. that is who you are, ladies and gentlemen! [cheers and a] applause -- [cheers and applause]

i look at every sign that i pass and there are a lot of them out there. and somebody put up that sign. somebody volunteered in our name, took it way out to the other side of the state and had enough interest in the future of their country to put that in the ground. and it carries your name. for those of you who have run for president before, that is a pretty awesome deal when you are going down a highway and you see your name on a sign. that is pretty cool. and then you think that is all about volunteers. and then i hear a report that some of our volunteers have called thousands and thousands of people. thousands and thousands of people they have called. so we have folks were putting up signs. we have people who are ready to get up the vote. we have people who are organizing all 10 counties around here. are we ready to rock and roll

around here? we are ready to rock and roll! [cheers and applause] dewpoint #2 -- point #2, we are here not to play politics, ladies and gentlemen. we are here as americans first and foremost. we are here to put our country first. did you like the debate yesterday morning? [applause] i think we reminded a certain other candidate in the race that our team and our movement is here to put our country first. we're tired of people putting politics first. [cheers and applause] we are all americans, first and foremost. we want a better tomorrow and what we are about to hand down

to the next generation is unacceptable. unacceptable! it is not who we are. we are a bunch of blue sky /optimistic people. we are in a hole and we are about to get new leadership. we are about to get out with new leadership. this is bigger than all of us. this is about a country we love. it is about the next generation of americans that we will fight and prepare this nation for because they deserve it. they deserve it. ladies and gentlemen, when we leave tonight and when we put in this hard work tomorrow, i know we will be prepared -- we will all be up a bright and early. we will work our tails off all day long. i want you to remember as you carry on tomorrow that this is about a country we love. this is not about politics. this is about us, americans. it is about the greatest people

on earth. it is about the greatest nation that ever was, the united states of america! [cheers and applause] [chanting] >> usa! usa! usa! >> i want you to remember, as we were to mar anything tonight about what tomorrow might bring, i want you to think about what we will accomplish together. when we get to the end of the road, to the white house, we will get a few things done. we will get term limits for congress finally. once and for all. [applause] and we will close the revolving door for lobbyists, members of congress coming out and screwing things up. [applause] and we will tell congress that we will doctor pay until you balance the dam budget, for

heaven's sake -- we will dock your pay until you balance the budget, for heaven's sake. and another thing, we love our men and women in uniform. we have something to show for the work we have done. we dismantle al qaeda. osama bin laden is no more. we have had free elections. we have a civil society to help the police and military. ladies and gentlemen, we have brought the troops home to america. [cheers and applause] and we will begin to really build this nation of ours. we will get our core strong. we all believe that we have no effective foreign policy, no

effective national security strategy with a weak nation right here at home. we will strengthen this nation and we will remind the world what it means to be americans. [applause] and we will project those values that we have become so well known for -- liberty, democracy, human rights, and open free markets. [cheers and applause] when our nation is strong, we move people. we changed lives. we change history. nobody does it like the united states of america. but it starts with a strong country here in the home front. that is what we will work toward. you know what else we will do? we will right-size those banks that are too big to fail. [applause]

what kind of deal is this? we have been there. we have done that. we will not bailout anybody again, for heaven sakes. just remember as you wake up tomorrow morning, get out, energized, making call, rounding up your friends and taking them out to vote, this is what we will do. are you with me? are you with me on that? are you with me? [applause] we will do it with the idea in mind that this movement of ours will nail the economic deficit because we are not passing $15 trillion to the next generation. just as importantly, we will work on the trust deficit in this country. do you hear what i'm saying? i am sick and tired of there being no trust by the people toward the institutions of power. [cheers and applause] we are a nation founded on trust and we will get back to trusting one another. we will work towards trusting

our institutions of power and come together as americans. do you know what else we will talk about? we will talk about coming together as americans. this divide stuff -- no more could no more! we are coming together as americans and start solving our problems. [cheers and applause] [chanting] >> usa! usa! usa! >> ladies and gentlemen, we have some work to do and here's what i have been asking everybody at all the town hall meetings. i am a shameless salesman at this point where i am asking everyone for a vote. i was at a bakery this morning -- the lady at the cash register was on the phone to the dairy company. i said, give me that phone. i have to ask that person for a phone. [laughter] i got a vote on the other end. it works. every vote counts. when we walk out of here, we will remember that it is in the name of pulling this nation together. it is in the name of putting our

country first. it is in the name of working tirelessly for the next generation. what i have been asking people for is their vote. here is the deal. when i ask people for a vote, i am also asking them for their trust. just like i have all of you. every volunteer, helper, friend, associate in this room, you are here because there is an element of trust in this relationship. you trust that we will do the job. you trust that we will hold to our word, which is so rare in politics these days. i have asked people for their vote. but i am also asking people for their trust. let's face it. at the end of the day, there is nothing more valuable than one him -- that one human being can give to another than trust. it is a big deal. all of us in this room tomorrow and beyond will be fuelled by trust. it is what makes this country work. we need a system that in fuses

that notion of trust into our system once again. as you are working tomorrow, i want you to remember that word "trust." if there was one word that summarize everything that we're trying to do, everything -- it is trust. that is what this movement is about. that is what this campaign is all about. and i believe that "trust" word. it will take us all the way to the finish line tomorrow. and we will surprise the world! [cheers and applause] thank you all for being here tonight. let's go to work. thank you! thank you! ♪ d

[no audio] >> what explains this momentum? >> pure hard work. >> how different is your economic policy from mitt

romney's? >> we will make it happen. we have work tomorrow. >> jon huntsman is closing arguments in exeter, new hampshire last night. the polls are open for another six hours, closing tonight at 7:00 p.m. hour prime-time coverage will get underway at 8:00 p.m. -- our prime-time coverage will get underway at 8:00 p.m.

now the mitt romney rally last night. >> all we ready in the live- free-or-die state to cast the vote that will be heard around the world? are we ready? [cheers] are we ready to change the course of history? to put governor romney in the white house and turn our economy around? are we ready? [cheers] are we ready to ensure that governor romney is the next president so that none of us will ever have to apologize for being an american? are we ready? [cheers] i am ready. you are ready. and i have three friends to introduce who are ready. three great american patriots. first of all, senator kelly

ayotte and her husband from the veteran air force know. senator ayotte is a rising star in washington, doing a great job for all of us. [applause] and i have another friend of new hampshire, gov. tim pawlenty from minnesota. [applause] from the liberal and of hubert humphrey and jim mccarthy, this guy cut taxes and balance the budget and is a leading conservative voice across our country. ladies and sentiment, senator kelly ayotte. >> thank you so much, jeff. i am so fired up to be here tonight. but in the right way, we are here fired up. joe daly, i am so glad to be here with him. [applause]

our country is in trouble. that is why we are here tonight. we have lost 1.7 million jobs under this president been he is adding close to $5 trillion to our debt. ladies and gentlemen, we cannot stand for years more of barack obama. [applause] but i am so encouraged tonight about america. i am so encouraged about where we are because we have mitt romney running for president. he is someone who, unlike this president, has actually balanced a budget, both in the private sector and as governor of massachusetts. he eliminated a deficit, balance the budget, put money in the surplus in the rainy day fund, and that is what we need in washington, d.c. [applause] he is someone who knows how the economy works. he has the private sector experience, will get americans working again. on like this president that we have right now, he knows that

the jobs are not created in washington, d.c. they are created by the small businesses here in new hampshire and large businesses all around the country, on drug and doors. we will have the best place in the world for entrepreneurs when it romney is president of the united states. finally, my husband and i, we come from a military family. joe served in the iraq war as an a-10 pilot. [applause] >> thank you! >> one of the reasons we are supporting mitt romney, one of the most important reasons, is that he will be an excellent commander-in-chief. he will be commander in chief who listens to his military commanders and not his pollsters, political adviser, and you will never apologize for the united states of america. it is my honor to support room

mitt romney. and they are a wonderful family. it will be an honor to have them in the white house. [applause] we have seen around the country that strong conservative leaders are coming forward to support mitt romney for president. it is my honor tonight to introduce one of the strong conservative leaders for our country, the former governor of minnesota, tim pawlenty. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate it. do you agree with me that new hampshire has one of the greatest united states senators in the country today? [applause] kelly is awesome. have you had enough of barack obama? >> yes! >> have you had enough of barack obama saying he will come in and cut the deficit in half during his first term and then he tripled it?

>> yes! >> have you had enough of barack obama's proposals has made for our united states military and defense capabilities? >> yes! >> have you had enough of barack obama selecting judges who make decisions on the back of a napkin? >> yes! >> i want to give you to messages before we introduced our speaker. i grew up in the meatpacking town. my mom was a homemaker. she passed away when i was young and my dad lost his job not long after that. at a young age, i saw the concerns of unemployment and job loss. one of the big challenges for the next president is to make sure that we have a country that does those things that encourages job growth in america, not discourages it. when you ask people all around this country who own large and

medium-size businesses, like romney does every day like i did until not long ago, what will you do to grow jobs? you know what they say? they say get the government off my back. [cheers and applause] some talk about taxes been some talk about regulation. some talk about energy. but it is the same message. the person who understands that, not based on a lifetime in washing, d.c., not based on a lifetime in politics, but based on the hard work and growing businesses and providing jobs in the private sector, there is only one candidate that meets that description and it is mitt romney. [tears and applause] when you talk to people across this great state, who want to know can i get my kids to college, can i pay my health insurance, will my family be ok? the way they can answer that

question is whether or not they have a job. we are confident that we have the right team on that issue. lastly, it has been a real treat to get to know mitt romney. we were both elected in 2003. i have gotten to know him behind the scenes, so to speak. one of the great things i have observed is this. he is a great man of character. he is a great man of integrity. he loves his family. when you look at him and his wife, they love each other very much. he is a great dad. he is a great grandpa. he has an incredible loving relationship with his grandchildren. you see the strength of not just his family, but the strength of his character, the strength of his values. his values are our values. tonight, i have a special treat for you. i will not just introduced the next president of the united states. but i will introduce within the group of people that help keep him grounded, who shaped his values, and you will see not

just him, but the next great first lady, anne romney, and a very large portion of the tremendous romney family. ladies and gentlemen, mitt romney and the romney family. ♪ i was born free ♪ i was born free ♪ i was born free ♪ born free free like a river raging strong ♪ >> thank you so much, you guys. what a great thrill to be here. what a way to go into the primary tomorrow night. i hope you will be able to give me a greater margin of victory than the eight votes i got in iowa.

i want to thank you for being here tonight. i have family appear. you are wondering who are all these people. on the far right side, that is not my son. that is my brother. that is my brother scott and his wife sherry been he is older than me. next to him are three of my boys, then, the fourth oldest son, tag who lives in massachusetts, chris, who is the youngest of our five boys. he lives in california. and his wife. they were separated. of their they are. he has four children. ben has one little girl. over here, this is almost the one family. a little confusing here. there we go. we will get joe with his dad. and that is all one family over here. these are matt and lowry from california with their four children. this is nick and chloe and mia and ante. -- and nate.

thank you, you guys. [applause] if i did not have a family that was behind me and encouraging me, i did not have a wife to put me up to this, i do not think i would be doing this. anne got me into the race appeared last time, it was a mutual decision. but this time, she said i had to do it again. let's hear it for her, my sweetheart. [cheers and applause] >> it is great to see some new friends. i see a lot of people that we have known and loved for a long time. it is also great to have my family here. we are so appreciative of everybody who has supported as. you have heard me say this before. after the last election, i knew one thing for certain. i was never going to do that again. mitt reminds me that i said that after each pregnancy. and you notice that i have a few

sons. about a year ago, knit and i were figuring this out. there were a lot of questions over whether we would do this or not. mitt was going through the roadblocks, many of which i was very aware of appeared and asked them to answer one question. can he turn america around? and his answer was yes. there is no question. you have to run. [cheers and applause] so we are in it. we are in it because i believe that america is in peril. i believe we are in stormy seas right now. and who knows what is coming down and what kind of difficulties this country will face. i also know something else. the life that ronald reagan

talked about, about the shining city on a hill, that light is fading. i need somebody to get in there and bright in that light and turn up that light. so let's hear it for the next president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> she always does that, you know that? she speaks like that and then people say why should not she be president then you? thank you, sweetheart. there you are. what a wonderful woman. i want to thank you all for being here this evening. there is a group that came across the border +. you have a border problem here in new hampshire and. some folks from massachusetts are here. [applause] we have republican legislators from massachusetts been this is a distinguishing read. we have the leader of the republican house. i