Huntsman may be bumped from GOP debate

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman this week celebrated new poll numbers that show him in third place in New Hampshire just five months before ballots are cast in the first-in-the-nation primary.

But now the former governor of Utah and President Obama’s former ambassador to China faces a quandary. Even as he is breaking out in New Hampshire, where he has invested his entire campaign, Huntsman lags so far behind in national polls that he may be excluded from an upcoming national debate, a critical platform he needs to sell himself to a national audience.