Huntsman enjoys final day with NH to himself (AP)

PEMBROKE, N.H. ? As he enjoyed one last day of having New Hampshire to himself, Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman said his "consistent, predictable core" is just of the many things that differentiate him from front-runner Mitt Romney.

Asked by a reporter in Lebanon, N.H., to compare himself to Romney, Huntsman strung together all the criticisms he's been sprinkling into his speeches in the last week. He started by saying simply, "I can get elected."

"The issue is going to be trust in the 2012 election cycle. People want to know your core. They want to know you have a consistent, predictable core," he said. "I haven't been on three sides of all the issues. I ran a state that was No. 1 in job creation as opposed to No. 47. I've lived overseas four times. ... The kind of experience I bring is unlike anyone else in the race."

Huntsman, a former Utah governor and former ambassador to China, is skipping Tuesday's Iowa caucus and counting on a strong finish in New Hampshire's Jan. 10 primary to keep his campaign afloat. Though all eyes were on Iowa, he said he had no regrets about his decision.

"We'll obviously look at the results, and we'll remember them for about seven hours, and then people will be focused on New Hampshire," Huntsman told reporters in Pembroke.

"This will be the ballgame here, because this is a primary," he said. "This will be a broadband turnout ... and it will be a result that speaks to the issue of electability."

In Pembroke, Huntsman gave students at the Strong Foundations charter school a lesson in politics when he helped distribute iPads the school recently purchased at a discount from a Utah company called iSchool Campus. The company offered 200 iPads plus computers and a new wireless network to the school in part because it wanted to capitalize on publicity generated by Huntsman's presidential campaign.

The company's founder, Tom Pitcher, has donated $2,000 to Huntsman's campaign, and he promoted both his company and Huntsman at the school.

The two stopped by a fifth-grade classroom where students were writing on their iPads about their Christmas gifts and using an online thesaurus to replace overused adjectives. Briefly interrupting that lesson, Pitcher asked the students to search the Internet for information about Huntsman instead.

Earlier, Pitcher told parents, students and school officials that Huntsman was a "born leader" who had helped high-tech companies thrive in Utah. And he had Huntsman sign the back of an iPad he presented to a third grader and her mother, saying that "iPad Moms" could become this election cycle's "soccer moms."

Huntsman was ending his day with his 150th public event in the state, a town hall meeting in Peterborough.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120103/ap_on_el_pr/us_huntsman

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