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The New Hampshire Republican Party is sponsoring a forum for Republican presidential candidates on Jan. 6, two days before the state’s first-in-the-nation primary.The forum, where the candidates will be questioned by Fox New Channel’s Chris Wallace, will be held a day after ABC holds back to back Democratic and Republican presidential debates.

“Never underestimate New Hampshire voters’ appetite for politics,” said Fergus Cullen, the chairman of the state Republican Party.

Participating in the forum will be Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson.

Unlike a debate, the candidates will face questions from Wallace around a table in a studio on the campus of St. Anselm College in Goffstown, N.H.. The 90-minute encounter will air live beginning at 8 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel and on Fox News Radio.

Amazing. If you look at the polls Paul is tied or ahead of Fred Thompson in nearly every poll and in some tied with Huckabee. In Iowa he’s been tied for 3rd. It’s outrageous for Fox and the NH state party (who is sponsoring the forum) to leave out Paul.

Update:

All of a sudden people have gone apeshit over this story. Some aparently saying that AP didn’t say he wasn’t invited so he may infact be going. I’ve yet to see any confirmation. However, if you say X, Y, and Z are going to be somewhere that is generally absolute. They didn’t say John Cox was invited either but it wouldn’t be implied he was just because he’s running.

http://blog.ronpaul2008.com/…

Has this been a hectic and encouraging time! First we got almost 17% in the Texas straw poll, an event set-up to represent the establishment, with very restrictive voting rules. That 17% of the Republican hierarchy would support our views, after a full day of pro-war propaganda, is good news. Then we won the more open Maryland Republican straw poll with 28%. In both cases, as usual, hard-working, well-organized volunteers made all the difference.

The Fox debate was a lot of fun as well. It’s true that a few of the network people are not exactly with us on foreign or domestic policy (though one famous guy whispered to me that he is a libertarian), but the audience—with lots of students from the University of New Hampshire—was definitely fair and balanced, as their enthusiastic reaction showed.

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