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Final results: Summary results | Town resultsThe BasicsThe New Hampshire primary is a mainstay in American electoral politics. Every four years, voters gather to help determine the Republican and/or Democratic nominee for President. While the state only has 12 electoral votes in 2012 (normally it’s 24, but the Republican National Committee penalized the state party for moving up the event date), the primary’s position as one of the earliest contests gives the state out-sized influence over the nomination process.Only the Iowa caucuses come before New Hampshire’s primary. Traditionally, New Hampshire’s broad-based primary contest has been seen as a counter-weight to Iowa’s more drawn-out caucus process, which tends to draw a smaller core of party faithful. In the case of the 2012 Republican race, New Hampshire’s electorate is seen to represent the more libertarian-leaning, fiscally conservative wing of the party, while Iowa voters are seen as representing the socially conservative wing of the GOP base.N.H. Primary summary provided by StateImpact - NH reporter, Amanda Loder

“Affordable” North Conway Outlets Get Shout-Out On SNL

Jon Huntsman took a brief respite from campaigning in New Hampshire to go on SNL
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Jon Huntsman took a brief respite from campaigning in New Hampshire to go on SNL

In all likelihood, most of you aren’t visiting StateImpact for our primary coverage.  Yes, we completely agree that the Republican primary is a Very Big Deal.  But most people don’t go to business news sites to get nitty-gritty political coverage, either.  So we try to keep political stories strictly focused on New Hampshire’s business and economic environment.  They have to be specific to the situation here.  Every time a politician talks about business in New Hampshire, we don’t automatically post it.

But today is the day before Thanksgiving.

If you haven’t already taken the day off, we wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to check out from the daily grind for a couple of minutes.  In fact, we’ll aid and abet that one.

Last night, NHPR’s political reporter Josh Rogers filed a long piece about former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman betting double-or-nothing on New Hampshire for the Republican nomination. Rogers noted a couple of stops the candidate made at a pair of factories and talked about the need to bring more manufacturing jobs back to this country.

That was good.

But what’s great (especially for the day before a major holiday) is brain candy.

In his report, Rogers references an appearance Huntsman made on Saturday Night Live, lamp-shading his all-in approach to New Hampshire.

On the show, Huntsman makes a glowing reference to, “the affordable outlet malls of North Conway, New Hampshire.”

We’re calling that a retail story.

And we’ve got the video right here:

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