On Jan. 11, the day after New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation Primary, hundreds of Ron Paul supporters scoured Granite State roadways for campaign signs, which they collected and distributed to Vermont, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Maine. Because the Maine Caucuses followed the New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and Nevada primaries, many local Paul supporters have made Vacationland their new stomping grounds, at least until the caucuses, which began this past Saturday and end on Feb. 11.  So while the four remaining GOP contenders battle for votes in the Colorado and Minnesota …

GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman today officially ended his bid for president. The news was first reported late last night. In the video above by Patch's Adam Crisp, watch Huntsman's remarks during a speech in South Carolina today. Huntsman went on to endorse Mitt Romney. Huntsman had banked his campaign on New Hampshire – making several stops in Exeter – but he finished a disappointing third in the Primary.

Jon Huntsman, who banked his presidential hopes on New Hampshire and appeared in Exeter on Monday before finishing a disappointing third in the Primary, is bowing out of the GOP race, the New York Times reported tonight. Huntsman will endorse fellow candidate Mitt Romney, the newspaper reported. Huntsman, a former Utah governor, campaigned harder in New Hampshire than any other GOP candidate. He held close to 200 public events in the state, including several in Exeter. He flew to Exeter Town Hall June 21 – the same day he announced his candidacy. Huntsman had the support of Exeter resident …

Above are the final vote counts for the Republican and Democratic ballots during Tuesday's Primary. Turnout was 39 percent, with 245 new voters who registered the day of the Primary.

Public service or federal crime? That's for the state Attorney General's office to decide now, after more than 10 minutes of video footage released by conservative activist James O'Keefe has stirred controversy – and not necessarily the kind O'Keefe intended. The footage includes shots taken at several New Hampshire polling sites, including some in Nashua, on Jan. 10 during which phony voters went undercover to ask for ballots for recently deceased people in those wards. In one instance a poll worker in a Manchester ward realized the undercover imposter was not who he said he was because she …

Democratic state Rep. David Cote of Nashua said the undercover Election Day sting involving several Nashua polls, where conservative activists attempted to obtain ballots of voters recently deceased just to make a point, is "disgusting." Republican Rep. Shawn Jasper of Hudson said the means justify the end, which in his estimation, was a public service. Either way, emotions on both sides of the Voter ID issue are running high, following the volatile video footage released yesterday by Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe. "Voter fraud doesn't run rampant in New Hampshire, and if you called …

Tim Tebow for president? According to the L.A. Times, the Broncos quarterback and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady each received one write-in vote in Tuesday's New Hampshire Primary. Colorful write-ins have long been a part of the New Hampshire Primary's storied history. "We get some pretty interesting names," said David Scanlan, New Hampshire's deputy secretary of state. "Jesus Christ usually gets a couple, and now and then you get some profanities listed in the write-in spot. You get the whole spectrum." This year was no exception. In addition to Tebow and Brady, those receiving votes …

Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire Primary, but Ron Paul won the youth vote by a landslide. In fact, it is the  "Y factor"  that propelled Ron Paul into a solid second-place finish in the Primary – without which he could not have beat Huntsman. That observation and more are found in a report issued Wednesday by CIRCLE – the Tufts University research-based Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement that determined 29,000 voters under the age of 30 voted in the Jan. 10 primary, a majority of those votes going to Paul [see inset chart.] "Although young voters did not turn …

Fred Karger and Buddy Roemer are the last of the long-shot candidates. Despite their full-fledged efforts to be taken seriously on the GOP ticket, neither Roemer nor Karger have been given a fair shake –  at least, not by the mainstream media, says Karger. Neither were invited to participate in even one of the 15 televised debates held since May. Now that the New Hampshire Primary is history, both Karger and Roemer are looking forward to whatever comes next. As reported yesterday by ABC News, Roemer has already moved on, leaving his staff to close up the house on Brown Avenue in Manchester …

They've been dotting the landscape for months, but unless it's a Mitt Romney sign, it's time for all of the other candidate placards to make their way off of the roadsides. According to RSA 664:17, campaign signs that have been placed around town must be removed no later than the second Friday following an election. That means the deadline for sign removal is Friday, Jan. 20. However, because this was a primary election, and there are many months to go until the general election in November, Mitt Romney, who won the state, is able to continue having signs advertising for him until the second …

Hilary Clinton, who won the New Hampshire Primary in 2008 but lost the eventual Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, got five write-in votes in Exeter in yesterday's Primary. Clinton, now the Secretary of State, got more votes in Exeter than Republicans Gary Johnson (three) and Fred Karger (one) – two candidates who actually campaigned in town. Johnson made several stops in Exeter, including one at the RiverWoods senior housing community. Karger stumped at the American Independence Festival. The write-ins for Clinton appeared to be the biggest oddity of yesterday's Primary results in Exeter…

Mitt Romney won Exeter – and the state – in yesterday's Primary. Turnout in Exeter was a healthy 40 percent. Unofficially, there were 2,847 Republican ballots cast and 940 Democratic ballots cast. Here's a breakdown of the Exeter results. Totals are for candidates that actually received votes: Republican ballot Candidate Total votes Mitt Romney 1,197 Jon Huntsman 656 Ron Paul 569 Newt Gingrich 211 Rick Santorum 198 Buddy Roemer 16 Rick Perry 16 Michele Bachmann 6 Kevin Rubash 4 Gary Johnson 3 Herman Cain 1 Fred Karger 1 Joe Story 1 Jeff Lawman 1 Democratic ballot Candidate Total votes Barack …

A small but eager crowd of Rick Santorum supporters chanted “We Pick Rick” as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum approached the stage at The Derryfield Restaurant on Tuesday night. Santorum was sitting tied with Newt Gingrich in fourth place as New Hampshire results continued to trickle in around the state last night (Post-primary update: Santorum beat Gingrich for fourth: 23,408 to 23,291, according to the Secretary of State). Santorum told the crowd he was far from finished and that the race cannot be decided by two states, one of which was in "a certain candidate's backyard." “By your …

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called his task ahead "daunting but doable" in a speech at his Manchester Radisson headquarters. Addressing about 100 supporters and throngs of media in the main ballroom, Gingrich was not about to show weakness despite a tough day in the New Hampshire polls, calling it "step two of a long process." As of 11 p.m., the numbers showed the former Speaker in fourth place with just 9.6 percent of the vote. Unlike his post-Iowa speech, Gingrich decided to go after President Barack Obama rather than his fellow candidates. He said that he believes it will take …

By the time Ron Paul took the stage Tuesday night the crowd was already running on adrenaline. "President Paul! President Paul! President Paul!" came the husky chant rising up from the vortex of Paul's campaign headquarters at the Executive Court in Manchester. As Paul emerged, just before 9 p.m., the numbers scrolling across the television screen had already put him solidly in second place, behind Mitt Romney, with 23 percent of the votes. After introducing his family and thanking some key campaign staffers, Paul said there was one more thank-you he wanted to dole out. "I want to thank the …

Over the last seven days, Jon Huntsman continuously stated that his goal for New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation Primary was to exceed "market expectations." Mission accomplished. Behind a late surge of support, Huntsman climbed from the bottom of a quickly thinning GOP pack and garnered a respectable 17 percent of the vote. Most polls had the former Utah governor at 11 percent as recently as this morning. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said beginning his remarks to a capacity crowd at Manchester's Black Brimmer, "I think we're in the hunt. I'd say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and …

Shortly after Mitt Romney was declared the winner of the NH Republican Presidential Primary, national and state Democratic leaders expressed great confidence that President Barack Obama could defeat Romney if he goes on to become the Republican nominee. Their collective view is that the Republican candidates would return the country to the policies of the Bush administration which contributed to the recession while President Obama continues to help the middle class. They are confident that once President Obama and his supporters make that case, the President will return to the White House for…

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, posted a strong second-place finish in the New Hampshire Primary on Jan. 10. In front of hundreds of cheering supporters, that the candidate described as "diverse" and "an inspiration," the candidate said that with a second-place finish in Iowa and New Hampshire, the status quo should fear him and his supporters.

Jon Huntsman, once toiling in near obscurity, powered to a respectable third in the New Hampshire Primary. Despite his solid result, supporter John Bzik of Bedford could not hide his disappointment. "If he had a few more days," he said of Huntsman's surge in recent days. "He just ran out of time. I'd like to see him carry on, but I think it's going to be very difficult." But Huntsman cheered his finish, calling it proof his campaign had caught fire. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said beginning his remarks, "I think we're in the hunt. I'd say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentelmen…

We caught up with a couple of Mitt Romney supporters from Massachusetts (one a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives) as they waited in line for his primary night party at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. Geoff Diehl and Mass. Rep. Kevin Kuros were confident in a Romney victory and downplayed the idea that margin of victory will matter as much as Romney attempts to march toward the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.