Mitt Romney fending off Gingrich in New Hampshire

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Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls has not gotten him within shouting distance of Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, according to a new Suffolk University/7NEWS poll of likely voters in the state.

Still, the gap seems to be narrowing.

Romney, who stands at 38 percent support in the survey, has a comfortable lead over Gingrich, who won the support of 20 percent of likely voters. In third was Jon Huntsman with 13 percent support - an uptick for him - followed by Ron Paul at 8 percent. The other candidates were in the low single digits.

Still, Romney's lead is down from the 27-point advantage he held in the middle of November. Gingrich, meanwhile, has gained six points in one month. New Hampshire is widely seen as a must-win state for the former Massachusetts governor, who has a summer home in the Granite State and who has long held a huge advantage in the polls. On the plus side for Romney, 59 percent of voters in the survey said he could best manage the economy - compared to just 20 percent for Gingrich. And 70 percent called him the candidate best suited to the presidency.

Huntsman has essentially camped out in New Hampshire in hopes of an upset victory to kickstart his long-shot campaign. He finished second to Romney among independent voters - who can vote in the state's GOP primary, and who will not have a serious Democratic primary to consider - and the poll prompted celebration from the Huntsman team, which sent a fundraising email pointing to that poll to suggest the former Utah governor is "surging."

Less than one month remains before voters go to the polls in New Hampshire for the nation's first primary on January 10, which comes one week after the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.

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Fosters and NH Union Leader newspapers
A student in Ohio writes a letter and posts it on the web, seen by many in authority but ignored. I am running for Oyster River School Board even though a court order stopped me from entering schools for the danger signs NH used to harm my character in retribution a few years back. Letters for and about other candidates are published every day. My letters are ignored, as it is clear the consequences of the harm past school boards in OR have done with freedom of press censoring opinion letters of government wrongs. How many good people are passed because editors like Rod Dougherty curtail the people's right to know. My letters every day are published on the web but the newspapers refuse for the danger they are trying to impress on the public that I am. I am a 100% combat related disabled US Marine from the Vietnam Conflict. NH declared me a terrorist under the Patriot Act and took my freedom for 6-months before dropping the bogus charges. NH and the VA stop my medical care to impress upon me the power of government officials on citizens that do not obey. I volunteered every week in schools around the state before the court order listening and helping students just like this in Ohio. The schools have never invited me back since for the danger signs will always be there.
The NH Supreme Court violated the Constitution to protect a brother Judge Peter Fauver. The NH SC refused to hear a case where judge Fauver used the power of the courts to let the Madbury NH selectmen use the trusted power of the people to take for the selectmen's own profit from the local residents. This family asked me some one they had never met for help after reading a letter in the paper that I wrote. I have been told by many in law enforcement up to governor Shaheen not to write opinion letters telling of the NH SC violating the law. Hence this is why I was put in jail because I kept writing of the criminal acts of the NH SC. All undisputed documented facts presented to the NH SC by a natural born US citizen.
I wrote a letter yesterday about the effects of expired VA medicine has on my PTSD and TBI disabilities. The psychological and embarrassment from my not being able to hear complete sentences of what others say from my loss of hearing from being blown up and blown off the runway or the unbearable pain from my broken back from another Vietnam offensive are taken there toll. Where do I go? The NH governor Lynch made me pay money to tell him of these government wrongs but we never did talk. He did take my money and give me a receipt, which I still have. I am a US Marine that came back to a society that will not accept us for what they believe we did. The smart ones commit suicide before coming back to the world that we love because they see the consequences of life back here in a civilized society we once belonged.
A seventeen year-old student the same age as when I went off to a conflict as a US Marine writes but is ignored. Think what the citizens of NH are going to think when it comes out the Union Leader and Fosters daily democrat ignored and censored the words of a Oyster River School Board member when I am elected. The Consequences of a Ohio School should never happen if we just learn to listen.
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper Fi
465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-781-3839

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Silence draws Violence
Reporters from the Nashua newspaper, plus papers in California and around the USA call me to ask how they can help. That is the end. It is like I told the Veterans Today (Mike Farrell) writer yesterday "I am not in it for myself, it is all the other US Military Veterans coming home suffering as in every fight since this nation was created". Citizens that never served put a token aid package out with the saying what happen to veterans from the Vietnam conflict and past wars was a mistake and now we are fixing it. Only veterans that fit the political profile and can make some politician look good gets help. The Veterans that the symptoms and the physical problems that do not show up for years later after discharge are forgotten or rejected as losers that just wasted the potential as a child they had to live a successful life. In 2030 Afghanistan neglected US Military Veterans will hear the same excuse as the neglected or lost veterans from the past did. Newspapers censor our words for the political damage and harmful psychological nature of our personalities we now exhibit.
I read a lot of newspapers each day and my letters are influenced by what I read. Paul J. Balles of Veterans Today had some great lines maybe not what he intended but do fit. ("Fear turns to hate, hate turns to violence", "Vitriolic Condemnation", "Caustic Comments where justified, are better than appalling silence") I am a 100% disabled US Marine with combat related disabilities that the VA stops my medical care to aid the NH government to stop my opinion letters of government wrongs. My letters are censored for they describe in detail the NH Supreme Courts refusal to hear a case presented with documented facts of Judge Peter Fauver's criminal wrongs to intentionally harm citizens of the USA enabling the Madbury NH selectmen to take for personal gain from local residents. If my words were not the truth libel suits would be against me in a second. In a civilized society communication is the proper way to handle problems. "Fear turns to hate, hate turns to violence" is what the newspapers censoring US Military Veterans opinion letters of government wrongs comes to. People describe me as someone that needs someone to talk to. As a 100% disabled US Marine my broken back, loss of hearing, PTSD and TBI (One of many ignored or harmed Veterans) need the public to hear what I am saying not just to listen. My case is not the only one of medical care contingent on our obeying what government officials order us to do. Newspapers fail to see the harm censoring the US Militiary Veteran's words is doing to the entire USA>
Reporters and writers working for newspapers must tell their editors to print the opinion of the people. We the US Military veteran have earned the right to express the truth in our opinion letters. Government retribution against veterans is shame full actions of our US and New Hampshire government on a daily bases. You censor our words as you tell us that you listen. Hear what we are saying then you may see the mental and physical disabilities we received for your freedom.
People wanting to help should write about my cause and talk about it to everyone! It is only hard to understand by listening with out hearing the US Military Veterans words. Censoring our words is the start of silence. Can you hear me now?
Peter Macdoald Sgt USMC Semper Fi
465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217