DAILY MAIL: …Obama campaign manager Jim Messina revealed this week that [former Utah governor Jon] Huntsman, who stepped down as Obama’s ambassador to China in April of 2011 in order to run for the Republican nomination, would have been the most ‘difficult’ candidate for Obama to beat…
Obama campaign officials were concerned that Huntsman’s center-right politics, along with his experience in the private sector and in foreign diplomacy would make him an attractive alternative to Obama for disaffected Democrats.
But Huntsman’s campaign never caught fire with Republicans, so Democrats never had a chance to vote for him… (more)
