After a disappointing third place finish in New Hampshire, Jon Huntsman has decided to drop out of the race and endorse Mitt Romney. While the endorsement is a positive for Romney, the actually impact should be very small.

Jon Huntsman threw in the towel this evening.

Last night, Colbert closed his announcement with the words “Thank you, God bless you, and God bless Citizens United.” Nobody has done more to show how ludicrous our campaign finance system has become. If it leads to a reassessment of the system, his SuperPAC money will have been money well spent.

Shorter Rick Perry: “No, no, it’s supposed to be hard to get a ballot, not hard to get on a ballot!”

Last night was simply a great night for Mitt Romney. The New Hampshire primary almost couldn’t have gone better for him. He not only beat his nearest rival by double digits, but the mixed results by all others works to his advantage.

Finally, at long last, it is the evening of the New Hampshire primary. Most of the polls close at 7 pm and we should start getting results rather quickly after that.

Today is finally the date of the New Hampshire primary. People all over the state are currently going to the polls to vote on who they want to be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. The polling agrees Romney should win by double digits, and the drama may be over whether Huntsman overtakes Ron Paul for second.

Now that we have the first set of entirely post-Iowa polling numbers in New Hampshire we can see that Rick Santorum’s extremely close second place finish in the caucuses gave him a big bump in support.

Jon Huntsman has always been able to get some media love, and it’s interesting how he’s using it in his last-ditch attempt to salvage his Presidential campaign. He’s going after Mitt Romney for being a servant to big banks and saying the TBTF banks need to be “right sized.”

To the extent Santorum can make this a race, he’s helped by winnowing the field. Michele Bachmann cancelled planned events in South Carolina and will hold a press conference back in Iowa this morning. Similarly, Rick Perry, in his campaign concession speech, said he would go back to Texas and “reassess” the results.