At a health care forum in Midtown attended by every mayoral candidate except Herman Badillo, each candidate was asked if he would earmark a larger portion of the city's take of the $1 billion a year that the state is expected to receive over the next 25 years in tobacco settlement money for health care.
Here's how they stacked up: Jon Huntsman 40 Mitt Romney 49 Herman Cain 60 Gary Johnson 63 Rick Santorum 64 Rick Perry 67 Newt Gingrich 68 Michele Bachmann 83 Ron Paul 96 As you can see, Romney's score of 49 is to the left of every Republican candidate except for Huntsman.
That's more than every Republican candidate except Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
WALLACE: With Bernie Sanders's appearance here last week, we've now sat down with every candidate in the race except Hillary Clinton.
If that sounds improbably reckless, consider that every Republican Presidential candidate except Jon Huntsman came out against the final debt-ceiling deal.
NBC's First Read reported Tuesday that Romney would not attend the Iowa GOP's annual Ronald Reagan Dinner, which will be attended by every other major candidate except Jon Huntsman (who has sworn off Iowa).
Aristotle has a client list that reads like a political convention: 45 senators, more than 200 members of the House, state parties and every major presidential candidate except Al Gore, whose campaign says it will not hire any firm whose practices could jeopardize the public's privacy.
Or again, we all know about the present administration's collective military experience but, Kagan observes, "in the nine presidential elections between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, every Republican presidential candidate except one had served as an officer in the Civil War".
Trump, who avoided serving in the Vietnam war through a series of draft deferments and then drawing a high number in the draft lottery, was also criticised by the country's main veterans associations and almost every rival Republican candidate except Ted Cruz, the Tea Party senator from Texas who has cosied up to the billionaire since his surge in the polls.
