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Scott, Andy. "Huntsman 2012." //2012 Presidential Candidates//. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. []. //Jon Huntsman: 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate//. Jon Huntsman for President, 2011. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) Fluent in Mandarin.
 * 2) Scion of billion dollar chemical empire.
 * 3) A former Mormon missionary
 * 4) he has no skeletons in his closet
 * 5) High school dropout (he obtained his G.E.D a few years later)
 * 6) former aid to bush and reagan
 * 7) Perceived by some as evasive
 * 8) calls Chinese Vice President, Xi Jinping, a friend
 * 9) was governer of utah
 * 10) high approval ratings in excess of 70%
 * 11) he won reelection for his second term by capturing an incredible 77.7% of the vote
 * 12) Pew Center on the States cited Utah as the best managed state in the country during his tenure
 * 13) United States Ambassador to Singapore
 * 14) father of seven
 * 15) might prove to be the clincher for the Republican voters
 * 16) huge personal fortune
 * 17) exudes a breath of fresh air into the sometimes all too predictable Republican nomination process
 * 18) Republican nominee for next year’s presidential election
 * 19) respected by the liberals
 * 20) at ease with the average Americans
 * 1) best chance to defeat obama
 * 2) Key Priorities: tax reform, regulatory reform, energy independence, trade
 * 3) proposals are modeled after Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax reform package
 * 4) Pew Center to name Utah the best-managed state in America under huntsmith
 * 5) Huntsman's reforms helped Utah lead the nation in job creation under his leadership
 * 6) The Cato Institute called Huntsman's tax reform plan in Utah "very Reaganesque" and gave him an "A" in tax policy
 * 7) he signed the largest tax cut in state history, returning $400 million to families and businesses and earning him the "Taxpayer Advocate" award from the Utah Taxpayers Association
 * 8) Huntsman will lower the corporate tax rate to the average of other OECD nations
 * 9) Eliminating taxes on capital gains and dividends would lower the cost of capital
 * 10) Shifting to a territorial system will allow American companies to compete with other global players and allow US-based multinationals to bring capital home to invest in new jobs
 * 11) We need employers to be based in America if they're going to provide jobs to Americans
 * 12) Governor Huntsman will eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax, which is not indexed for inflation and is penalizing an increasing number of families and small businesses. This tax is especially burdensome on the majority of small business owners who file as individuals
 * 13) Al-Qaeda and other groups have evolved since 9-11 in response to our efforts against them, and we must adapt accordingly
 * 14) Rebuilding our core requires a sober-minded assessment of our global commitments
 * 15) we must be as flexible in our prevention as they are in their execution (about terrorists)
 * 16) Above all, we cannot allow these groups to acquire and employ weapons of mass destruction
 * 17) Transformation of our forces is required to be prepared for future wars, and to better orient for a Pacific-centric century
 * 18) Sustaining America's leadership position in the world requires we continue to maintain the world's most capable military
 * 19) Too many Americans are out of work
 * 20) We have a debt crisis affecting our national strength and we have an outdated tax and regulatory system that is strangling our economy

This, Hide. "Page Not Found - The Washington Post." //The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post//. Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2011. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) Republicans have gotten exactly what they had coming
 * 2) Jon Huntsman, governor, ambassador, the man who in a normal political environment would be the most qualified and formidable candidate in the race, wasn’t even on the stage
 * 3) A system that rejects a Jon Huntsman in favor of a Herman Cain isn’t a primary process. It is a primal scream
 * 4) Huntsman boycotted the Nevada debate (given his poor standing in the polls, he might not have been invited anyway)
 * 5) “You throw out anyone with any connection to real-world experience in government.”
 * 6) Huntsman will almost certainly fail, but that doesn’t make what he is doing any less important
 * 7) he spoke of being hobbled by his impressive resume
 * 8) getting no credit for his solid record of conservatism on guns, abortion and economics
 * 9) “If you don’t shove people away and stay in your little corner of Republican Party ideology, you’re seen as something other than pure,”
 * 10) “If you’ve worked on some of the so-called nontraditional issues like the environment, if you’ve crossed party lines to serve your country . . . that can be seen as an easy strike against you — whereas in a perfect world that would be seen as a strength.”
 * 11) As Cain and the others in Las Vegas prepared for a debate that would potentially reach millions, Huntsman was in New Hampshire, reaching dozens
 * 12) “I came in as a margin-of-error candidate,”
 * 13) he’s at 8 percent in a recent WMUR New Hampshire poll, vs. Romney’s 37 percent
 * 14) It’s probably too late for Huntsman
 * 15) He has shifted from his initial dubious theme — the need for civility — to the worthier goal of fighting for the political center
 * 16) He said he would not join his rivals in going to pander to Donald Trump
 * 17) “I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”
 * 18) At least two-thirds of voters here haven’t yet made up their minds, and Huntsman strategist John Weaver thinks they can be persuaded
 * 19) Huntsman, already out of money, is running out of time
 * 20) “The work of the nation isn’t getting done because we’ve got the extreme elements on both sides that are barking at each other, and the entire middle has been hollowed out,”

Durkin, Tish. "5 Reasons the GOP Should Give Jon Huntsman Another Look." //The Week//. 2011 THE WEEK PUBliCATIONS, INC, 8 Oct. 2011. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) the ex-governor of Utah and former U.S. ambassador to China is barely a kernel in the Republican primary field
 * 2) Huntsman has only recently won 2 percent in three separate polls, thus narrowly escaping elimination from CNN's next debate, on October 18
 * 3) Maybe he's just godawful at running for president
 * 4) a perfectly legitimate deal-breaker, so long as leading America involves convincing Americans
 * 5) launch at the Statue of Liberty
 * 6) He has raised little money from anyone but himself
 * 7) having recently had to move the whole operation lock, stock, and barrel to New Hampshire can't be a good sign
 * 8) Under the circumstances, it seems worth suggesting to Republican primary voters that there's a guy already in the race who might be worth at least a look
 * 9) He's not crazy
 * 10) He's not Romney
 * 11) there are much worse things for a Republican candidate to be right now than Mitt Romney
 * 12) they end up nominating Romney, and he either beats Obama or comes close
 * 13) Huntsman can still appeal to those who like Romney the moderate, but don't like Romney the man
 * 14) He speaks fluent foreign policy
 * 15) Politically, this is actually probably more bad news for Huntsman
 * 16) Huntsman is not someone who served a drive-by ambassadorship
 * 17) He's not swearing on a stack of Bibles
 * 18) To run for president is to seek a job that has defied the preparation of anyone who has ever held it, and in which the limits of one's power, on any given day, will be dictated by variables from the composition of the Congress to the speed of winds gathering over the Gulf of Mexico to the anxieties of soccer moms in suburbia to the price of grain in Tunisia
 * 19) He probably does ride that Harley
 * 20) Huntsman's whole "motocross Mormon" thing has gotten tired already