ABC News / WMUR-NH 2012 Republican primary New Hampshire debate
"Your Voice Your Vote" debate at Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire sponsored by:
- AARP-NH (American Association of Retired Persons)
- Yahoo.com
- ABC News
- WMUR-TV
- hosted by George Stephanopoulos.
| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Mitt Romney: States shouldn't ban contraception; and no state wants to.
Rick Santorum: States have the right to ban contraception, but shouldn't.
Ron Paul: Right to privacy is explicit, but not for contraception.
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Budget & Economy
Rick Santorum: Spend-o-meter: track spending on all Senate amendments.
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Civil Rights
Rick Santorum: Marriage is a federal issue; we need one definition, not 50.
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Corporations
Rick Santorum: Companies run into a stiff headwind called government.
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Energy & Oil
Rick Santorum: Out of office, I stayed in the fray to defeat cap-and-trade.
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Families & Children
Rick Santorum: Gay adoption is a state issue; no federal ban.
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Foreign Policy
Jon Huntsman: China is our most important relationship of the 21st century.
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Free Trade
Mitt Romney: We have to open up markets to America's goods.
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Government Reform
Ron Paul: All spending should be designated by earmarks.
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Homeland Security
Rick Santorum: Privacy is in 4th amendment, but Patriot Act is ok.
Rick Santorum: Confront virulent threat of radical Islam.
Ron Paul: Getting bin Laden OK; Iranian nukes not OK.
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Principles & Values
Mitt Romney: Obama's policies have made the recession deeper.
Mitt Romney: Business entrepreneurialism is leadership experience.
Rick Santorum: We need command leadership; not business experience.
Rick Santorum: I'm a conservative but not a libertarian; some government OK.
Rick Santorum: I appeal to blue-collar voters, not Wall Street.
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Tax Reform
Jon Huntsman: Rip out $1.1T in loopholes from the corrupt tax code.
Rick Santorum: Simplify tax code: just 5 deductions; everything else goes.
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Technology
Newt Gingrich: We can't compete with China with an inferior infrastructure.
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War & Peace
Jon Huntsman: Draw down to 10,000 troops in Afghanistan by 2013.
Jon Huntsman: We listened to generals in Vietnam; don't repeat our mistake.
Mitt Romney: Leave Afghanistan when generals on the ground say so.
Newt Gingrich: We have mismanaged region-wide crisis in Middle East.
Rick Perry: I would send troops back into Iraq, to exclude Iran.
Rick Santorum: Stay in Afghanistan until security of our country is secure.
Rick Santorum: Iranian people admire us; Iranian leaders are evil.
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Welfare & Poverty
Rick Santorum: I authored the only bill to remove an entitlement.
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The above quotations are from ABC News / WMUR-NH 2012 Republican primary New Hampshire debate.
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- Yahoo's "Your Voice Your Vote" debate (Dec. 10, 2011)
- CNN National Security debate (Nov. 22, 2011)
- S.C. foreign policy Debate (Nov. 12, 2011)
- Your-Money-Your-Vote Debate (Nov. 9, 2011)
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- Orlando Google debate (Sept. 22, 2011)
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- Iowa Straw Poll debate (Aug. 11, 2011)
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- St. Anselm NH debate (June 13, 2011)
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- South Carolina debate (May 5, 2011)
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