Romney hosts spaghetti dinner

ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hosted a dinner in New Hampshire on Friday (January 6), urging his supporters to help him stay in the lead.<br/> At a school hall in the town of Tilton, Romney addressed the room which was filled with local residents and the media.<br/> Reacting to the rivalry between him and other Republican candidates, he said, "It is my priority to get this president out of office and if I'm not the nominee, I will be supporting our nominee and working for him. I will work hard for our nominee."<br/> "If there's a candidate who thinks this campaign is about them, they're wrong. This campaign is about America," he said.<br/> His comments were well received as the audience erupted in applause, but there was also a small group of protesters from the "Occupy" movement who questioned his promises of creating more jobs.<br/> As Romney's speech drew to a close and he left the hall, they chanted, "Romney made millions from bankrupting companies."<br/> Romney has surged to the front of the Republican pack in South Carolina, a poll said earlier on Friday, a sign that the former governor could emerge as a formidable front-runner from the first phase of the nomination race.<br/> Since finishing narrowly behind Romney in Iowa, Santorum has also moved ahead of Newt Gingrich and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman in the New Hampshire survey.<br/> One percent of the New Hampshire voters surveyed backed Rick Perry, and 15 percent were undecided.<br/> The New Hampshire poll was based on telephone interviews of 500 likely voters in the Republican primary and has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.