Why is huntsman boycotting

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Review-Journal Awards. I have offered detailed plans to cut spending and reduce America's cancerous debt, unshackle ourselves from foreign oil, and reform and strengthen entitlement programs. As the only candidate with hands-on foreign policy experience, I also believe America has a generational opportunity to redefine its place in the world, and reclaim the mantle of global leadership.

I have proposed detailed plans to revamp America's foreign policy for the 21st Century, which includes ending nation-building, engaging our allies and expanding our economic engagement with the world through free trade agreements. I'm not running for president to nibble around the edges with half-measures. I am running to transform America's economic foundation, and give the American people the tools to compete in the years and decades ahead. If we succeed, we can leave to our children and grandchildren a safer, more secure and more prosperous nation.

That is our obligation to the next generation, and it's an obligation we must fulfill. The question then becomes: which candidate is best-equipped - and which candidate will voters trust - to lead America toward that brighter future? Like so many elections before, the answer to that question must begin right here in New Hampshire. The fight to preserve New Hampshire's primary might be dismissed as just another political process story by those around the country who don't understand the importance of first-in-the-nation.

Unfortunately, most of my opponents played both sides of the coin by paying lip service to New Hampshire while attending the Nevada debate. Huntsman is polling in the low single digits, and so far he has been unable to break out of the pack much in the way Herman Cain has done in recent weeks.

Huntsman has been hurt in part by his brand of centrist GOP politics, which does not fit well with the more conservative Republican base who play an important role in helping choose the nominee.

The jockeying by states to be one of the first to vote in the presidential primary is not new, and both the Republican and Democratic national committees have struggled on how to implement a fair and orderly schedule to the primary calendar.

Iowa and New Hampshire have carved out unique and important roles as the first two states to hold nominating contests -- much to the chagrin of other states that say those two wield too much power. But rooted tradition, high interest by voters and the fact that each state is small enough for candidates financially to stage a campaign effort has helped Iowa and New Hampshire solidify their roles in Republican and Democratic presidential politics.

But in , Nevada was granted this elite early voting status by the Democratic National Committee because of its high Hispanic population, large number of union households and the influence of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada. Republicans followed the Democratic lead in by holding early caucuses, but the GOP contests were not a factor in helping choose the party nominee. South Carolina is the fourth leg of the primary calendar stool and is protective of its role as the first-in-the-South presidential primary.

That contest will be held on January