Friday, January 13, 2012

New Hampshire Primary Boils Down to the Numbers (ContributorNetwork)

With the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, candidates focused on continuing to try to garner voter interest by attempting to distinguish themselves from the rest of the pack and also prove that they were the best man to challenge President Barack Obama in November. To that end there have been many different sets of facts, figures and statistics that have been introduced into the discussion. Here are some of those relevant numbers.

1916: Year the New Hampshire primary was established.

250,000: People that New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner has predicted will vote in the Republican portion of the state's primary, according to USA Today.

232,000: Voters who had registered as Republicans in New Hampshire as of December.

313,000: Voters in New Hampshire who are considered undeclared or independent.

40: Percent of total registered voters in New Hampshire who are undeclared. Undeclared voters can vote in the Republican or the Democratic portion of the primary.

4 in 10: Likely voters who identify themselves as also being members or supporters of the tea party, according to the Wall Street Journal.

30: Republican candidates for president that will be included on the ballot.

6: Official candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination -- Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

41: Percent of the vote Romney is holding in New Hampshire, according to the University of New Hampshire's final poll before the primary.

33: Percent of the vote that Suffolk University's daily tracking poll attributes to Romney, according to CBS News.

1976: Year the last time a GOP candidate won the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, according to the Associated Press.

5: Months that are still to go in the primary season. Utah will hold the last primary on June 26, according to Money Morning.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obama/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120109/pl_ac/10813369_new_hampshire_primary_boils_down_to_the_numbers

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