Jon Huntsman So the U.S. Presidential Candidates

JERSEY CITY - Jon Huntsman, a former U.S. ambassador to China on Tuesday (21/06/2011), officially ran as candidates in the U.S. presidential election in 2012 against his former boss himself, Barack Obama. But his position, according to opinion polls, is still far behind its rivals in the Republican Party.

He announced his candidacy at Liberty State Park in New Jersey to the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop. Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy in the same place in 1980. Huntsman called the condition of America today "totally unacceptable," and he promised new jobs, energy independence and a simple tax rule.

With a promise to make "hard decisions" to prevent the U.S. lost in the disaster loans, the former governor of the state of Utah was officially announced his candidacy. Based on poll results, Huntsman, 51, was behind the other candidates of the Republican Party for the nomination of the party in 2012, but he's expected gain from media coverage.

His decision to compete in the presidential election worried the Obama administration than Democrats because Huntsman can attract voters from both parties. Huntsman has angered the White House last April when it put the office in Beijing to prepare against Obama, who picked it up in 2009.