Lisa Ash
Age: 45.
Occupation: Hardware store co-owner.
Family: Married, two children.
Favored candidate(s): Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann.
Quote: “I’m looking for values and character that really stand out to me. . . . I don’t like the talkers, just telling us what we want to hear and not implementing the things they say, so we just get discouraged and disappointed again.’’
Sherrie Downing
Age: 48.
Occupation: Hair salon owner.
Family: Married, two children.
Favored candidate(s): None.
Quote: “Romney has potential and I do like some of Ron Paul’s ideas, but my thing is: Who can implement their ideas the best?’’
Craig Moore
Age: 42.
Occupation: Safety manager for producer of commercial printers.
Family: Married, two children.
Favored candidate(s): Romney and Perry.
Quote: “My big thing is what are we going to do to fix the economy? Everybody wants the short-term fixes. Obama wants short term fixes. I want some long-term fixes.’’
Sherry Norman
Age: 54.
Occupation: Insurance agent; formerly owned insurance agency.
Family: Married, three children.
Favored candidate(s): None.
Quote: “It’s such a big mess. It’s going to take a lot to straighten it out and it’s going to take someone who truly has their own ideals and can follow them.’’
Scott Whitaker
Age: 28.
Occupation: Law student; platoon leader in the New Hampshire National Guard who has served in Kuwait and Iraq.
Family: Married.
Favored candidate(s): None.
Quote: “Romney is too much of a businessman and with both sides in Congress so polarized, I don’t think he’ll be able to work through that.’’
