In ads, interviews, debates and town halls. On everything from the economy to healthcare to immigration to foreign policy (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and of course China).

Did you even try to look it up ? In a less polarized year Jon would have without a doubt been a formidable contender from the outset. The Republican base is looking for excuses in retrospect why such a gem of an opportunity was basically left to wither on the vine, and the campaign does shoulder a portion of the blame, but conservatives also need to take it up with themselves because voter negligence is a prime contributing cause to all the debacles of this primary cycle.

A ringing endorsement from a constituency that would really like jobs when they graduate! Young Republicans whose future is being stolen are apparently more rational than their older counterparts. Hope they realize that Huntsman has to come in no less than a strong 2nd or 3rd to be viable after New Hampshire and get out to vote !

I honestly don’t recall specifics of the first debates except that I would be surprised if the president wasn’t mentioned even in passing as the campaign fund raising themes emphasized above all else Obama’s failure on the economy. Perhaps being marginalized by the media forced a strategy to distinguish himself from Romney and Perry from the outset and not waste time criticizing the president for empty rhetorical effect.

What is important is that Jon has the laser-like focused mindset of a master problem solver – organized, methodical, analytical and practical in a way that looks enormously appealing as we watch the Obama administration and the incumbent Congress run out of ideas on even basic issues. I listen to him and hear dead on solutions that our country so desperately craves but I suppose it is true those types can be fantastic at governing and don?t always come off as the most likeable or relaxed of candidates.

Sadly, Huntsman is always given so little time in these media ‘debates’ that he is continually in a position of having to reiterate the basics of his campaign sandwiched between attack sound bites and buzzers which would drive any candidate to buzzwords or rehearsed lines. It’s a shame because he has has many more sensible solutions that people need to hear and clearly feels more comfortable building a relationship of trust with the audience by walking through the points in a more sustained format. All this campaign needs now is a good spark.