Mitt Romney Celebrates New Hampshire Primary Victory.On Tuesday, Romney win gave a sweep first and second in the leadoff voting campaign 2012, for the first time any Republican besides a president, as the race moved to South Carolina Florida.Conservative candidates who stand the best chance to stop there - former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry - were dragged back and it seemed unlikely that a major survey of its performances here.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was a second solid, but the expansion will have difficulty in showing in the states that are less favorable to the libertarian view on social issues and foreign policy.
Jon Huntsman Jr. was third weak, with only about half of Romney's share of the vote. The former governor of Utah, which concentrates most of his campaign in this state, insisted on moving forward.
Romney, who lost the state four years ago, tried to convey an air of inevitability to his nomination with a speech on Tuesday night celebration that focused more on the fall elections.
Speaking to a boisterous crowd of supporters in Manchester less than half an hour after the polls closed, the former governor of Massachusetts complained that President Obama "wants to put on a free trial." But it also had a hard blow to what he described as "desperate" Republican rivals, who have intensified their attacks on his record in private enterprise - a group that includes Perry, Gingrich and Huntsman.
"This is a mistake for us and for our nation," Romney said. "The country already has a leader that divides us the bitter politics of envy."
Romney, who flies to South Carolina Wednesday, he went directly to the voters of that state, urging them to make 2012 the year that Obama's presidency "run out of time."
Interviews of voters leaving their polling places showed a broad victory, sweeping the Republican Party favorite. He led most age groups, income and population, as well as voters across almost the entire political and ideological spectrum, including conservative supporters of the Tea Party. Among self-identified independents, however, Paul won the majority.
Romney leaders started there too, but the challenge promises to be much more formidable than New Hampshire, who was the former governor of Massachusetts to lose from the beginning. Unlike Iowa, where leaders come and gone over the polls, no poll showed Romney never less than a substantial double-digit lead in New Hampshire.
In South Carolina, however, Romney does not have what amounts to a home-field advantage - which is the sixth presidential Massachusetts hopes to win the Granite State neighbors - and will face a very different electorate in the South first primary next week.
South Carolina has a large and politically important bloc of evangelical voters. Romney will face resistance among some Christian conservatives who are suspicious, if not outright hostile to his Mormon faith. In New Hampshire, just 14% of those who voted on Tuesday, said to be a "true conservative" was the most important thing for them, far behind the economic interests cited by six in 10 voters, according to interviews election day by the television networks.
Romney also faces a tighter pack of runners.
After great struggle between them for the past few months, came after Romney in New Hampshire with a sudden ferocity, casting him in a debate on Sunday and beat him since most of his work at Bain Capital, the private investment firm was co-founder and the source of his personal wealth.
While citing his business experience as a virtue, especially in contrast to Washington's extensive resume most of his rivals, Romney's opponents have described him as a ruthless corporate raider touches work.
They were given a cane in his campaign on Monday with a comment torn from their original context: ". I like being able to fire people," Though Romney made the comments in relation to health and holding companies insurance, rivals seized on it as evidence of insensitivity.
However, Romney moves with many advantages, at least not a big advantage in money and organization of the campaign, which becomes increasingly important as the choice of shifts statewide races in Iowa and New Hampshire to a large number of state contests across the country.
Wins in South Carolina on January 21 and Florida 10 days later, everyone can, but make sure that Romney is going to the nomination, and sooner rather than later.
Part of its strength derives from the weakness of the opposition.
Each of your opponents has a special appeal for the segments of the Republican base - Paul with independent, Santorum and Perry with the conservatives, and Gingrich with voters looking for intellectual heft and a long view. None, however, offer a complete package, which has driven Romney, with the continued support of at least a quarter of the electorate in almost everywhere.
That could also benefit, as it did rattle victory last week in Iowa, where evangelicals and Tea Party acolytes split their votes among several contenders for the right, which Romney to prevail over a field of people.
Immediately, after Sunday's debate Perry retired to South Carolina, where Romney has been hitting in its action Bain. Paul, a congressman from the Houston area, will compete there too, but has said it will not make a great effort in Florida, which conducted the first major primary state at the end of the month.
Huntsman has also set his sights on South Carolina, but still has much ground to recover. Despite having invested early, has spent little time there lately and relatively centrist position is likely to play as well as they did in more moderate New Hampshire, where he carried the vote of the Democrats who passed on Tuesday. Florida would require a heavy investment in advertising dollars just to be better known to Huntsman.
"I would say the third is a ticket to ride," said Huntsman supporters. "Hello, South Carolina!"
Four years ago, another moderate Republican, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani was a similar strategy, ignoring Iowa and make a last effort in Florida. He finished third weak and leave the campaign the next day.
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