Record number of Republicans (30) file for New Hampshire primary

[Newsjock]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Thirty Republican candidates have filed to appear on the New Hampshire presidential ballot, a record number for the party in the nation's first primary state.

Democrats, meanwhile, will have the fewest number of candidates to choose from in the 2012 vote: just 14.

Still, Secretary of State Bill Gardner said in an interview as the filing period closed at 5 p.m. Friday that the 44 total candidates is the second-most ever in the history of the primary, the date of which he still has yet to announce.

Eight candidates came to Gardner's office in person on Friday, the final day of the two-week filing period. Among them were Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who on short notice had to take a red-eye flight from Arizona because his campaign overlooked the deadline to file by mail.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-new-hampshire-ballot-20111028,0,5268278.story

[Botany]

1. More to the party!

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. This is more like an audition....

...but with everyone losing.

[No Elephants]

3. What is it with 2012 Republican primaries? Have Republicans been getting free tuition to clown

college or something?

[newblewtoo]

4. And there are

14 Democrats? Who knew? There is a pdf with the list.



http://www.sos.nh.gov/Candidates.pdf