Party: Republican
Website: http://www.voteforvern.com
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Occupation: Owner of a kitchen and bath remodeling company.
Political Experience: Ran for President in 2008. Received 44 votes in the NH Primary.
Pet Domestic Issue: 'Improving the integrity and strength of America’s culture by using personal example and the bully pulpit.'
Richard Adams’s view: Presidential credentials from Wuensche’s time in business as a builder and designer: 'An unsuccessful competitor … later built the home of President George Bush.' Photograph: PR
Party: Republican
Website: http://www.fredkarger.com
Hometown: Laguna Beach, California
Occupation: Retired Political Consultant
Political Experience: Strategist for nine Republican presidential campaigns, including those of Presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush.
Trivia: The first openly gay Republican presidential candidate, Karger started his career as an actor, getting a big break on a sitcom spinoff of Welcome Back Kotter in the 1970s that ultimately flopped.
Richard Adams’s view: Any candidate for president who sells 'Fred Who?' t-shirts shows he understands exactly where he stands.
Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images
Party: Republican
Website: http://theaveragejoeforpresident.com
Hometown: Jacksonville, Florida
Occupation: Account Manager
Pet Foreign Policy Issue: “Radical Islam has declared war and we must prepare."
Richard Adams’s view: Under issues, the candidate lists his first one as “War!” which neatly sums up his approach. Oh, and Obama is secretly a Muslim. Photograph: .
Party: Republican
Website:http://www.bearforamerica.org
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation: Management Consultant.
Political Experience: None.
Richard Adams’s view: Pluses: Fantastic name. Minuses: Website is still 'coming soon.' Photograph: .
Party: Republican
Website: http://hill2012.com/
Hometown: Prospect, Kentucky
Occupation: UPS cargo pilot.
Political Experience: None.
Pet Foreign Policy Issue: “We must end almost 70 years of policing the world. It is bankrupting America like it did the former Soviet Union.”
Trivia: A veteran US Air Force pilot from Operation Desert Storm, Hill believes his combat training is the best preparation for crisis management in the White House.
Richard Adams’s view: One photo on Hill’s campaign website shows him shaking hands with a statue. In fact, a statue of Santa Claus. Photograph: .
Party: Republican
Website: http://www.jefflawman.com
Hometown: Derry, NH
Occupation: Mechanical Engineer.
Political Experience: Unsuccessful bids for school board and town council.
Pet Foreign Policy Issue: 'Energy independence.'
Richard Adams’s view: Who can ignore a candidate named Lawman? Tens of thousands of New Hampshire primary voters, that’s who. Obviously, Lawman should forget about running for president and try running for sheriff. Photograph: PR
Party: Republican
Website: http://www.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/21101
Hometown: Kelly, North Carolina.
Occupation: Investor, Volunteer Firefighter
Political Experience: This is his fourth run for president. Received 37 votes in the 2008 NH primary.
Pet Foreign Policy Issue: “Big Oil has been deliberately increasing the price of oil since 1973 for the purpose of destroying the currencies of the world … There is no oil shortage.”
Richard Adams’s view: Only intensive combined efforts by the UN, Big Oil and the Bilderberg Group will stop Randy Crow from being elected. Photograph: .
Party: Republican
Website: www.TheKidsParty.webs.com
Hometown: Milford, NH
Occupation: Mail handler for the US Postal Service
Political Experience: None.
Pet Foreign Policy Issue: “We must end all the wars in the Middle East so we can use those resources here, to build a stronger country. We need to stop writing blank checks to governments who do not support us. We must build a stronger friendship with the country of Israel.”
Richard Adams’s view: Put it this way, Linn’s entry for 'Political Experience: None' is unlikely to need updating any time soon. Photograph: .
Party: Republican
Website: www.BuddyRoemer.com
Hometown: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Occupation: Small business community banker.
Political Experience: Former Governor of Louisiana (1988-1992), former US Congressman (1981-1988)
Pet Domestic Issue: 'Insurance companies gave more than $21m to campaigns in the 2010 election cycle. Pharmaceuticals gave $31m. You can bet that money comes with strings attached.'
Richard Adams’s view: The least fringe of the fringe candidates, Roemer is a former one-term governor of Louisiana, his career a mirror of that state’s bizarre electoral politics. Roemer lost his re-election bid in 1992 after finishing behind former KKK leader David Duke. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Party: Republican
Website: http://www.MarkCallahan.net
Hometown: Eugene, Oregon
Occupation: Unemployed IT Professional.
Trivia: Callahan turns 35 on 11 May, 2012, before the general election, qualifying him for the presidency under the US Constitution.
Richard Adams’s view: An unemployed “IT professional”, is that even possible these days? Based on the design of Callahan’s campaign website: yes. Photograph: .
Party: Republican
Website: www.Drummond2012.com
Hometown: Katy, Texas
Occupation: CEO of an anti-crime video surveillance company.
Political Experience: None.
Pet Foreign Policy Issue: 'Concerning our wars in the Middle East, I believe our military has acted honorably and accomplished our original mission. Now it is time for those brave men and women to come home.'
Richard Adams’s view: In an unusual burst of honesty by a presidential candidate, Drummond’s website includes a “refund policy” for those who regret making donations. Photograph: PR
Party: Republican
Website: http://www.AFCPR.org
Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama
Occupation: Psychiatrist and founder of the American Foundation for Counter-Terrorism Policy and Research (AFCPR).
Political Experience: Ran for President in 2008 in six states. Received 53 votes in the New Hampshire Primary.
Pet Foreign Policy Issue: Says that Iran is planning to place suitcase-sized nuclear weapons on US soil because it cannot effectively attack America with missiles.
Trivia: Cort is the self-published author of The American Hiroshima: Osama’s Plan for a Nuclear Attack and One Man’s Attempt to Warn America
Richard Adams’s view: Cort’s foreign policy credentials appear to be based on repeated viewings of 24. Photograph: PR
Party: Republican
Website: www.linden-would.blogspot.com
Hometown: Plainfield, Indiana
Occupation: Retired Indiana state government employee.
Political Experience: Served one term on the Hendricks County Council and made an unsuccessful bid for state representative.
Trivia: Swift is the author of numerous Christian-themed books, including a collection of Biblical word puzzles.
Richard Adams’s view: Bonus points for considering Herman Cain as vice-presidential nominee: 'Being twice as black as the President, he should receive twice as many racist motivated votes.' Photograph: PR
Party: Democratic
Website: http://www.greeneforoffice.org
Hometown: Mountain View, California
Occupation: Retired software developer.
Political Experience: None.
Pet Domestic Issue: The lack of a comprehensive energy policy. Proposes that the US 'aggressively pursue molten salt Thorium Fluoride reactors to satisfy this need.'
Trivia: Has a PhD in Physics.
Richard Adams’s view: Thorium’s atomic number is 90, the same as the number of votes Dr Greene will be lucky to win in the New Hampshire primary. Photograph: .
Party: Democratic
Website: http://www.haywoodforpresident.com
Hometown: Durham, North Carolina
Occupation: Manages Family Investments.
Political Experience: None.
Pet Domestic Issue: Wants to replicate the British National Health Service in the United States for 90 percent of the population, leaving private supplemental health insurance as an option.
Richard Adams’s view: Illustrates his campaign website with guys playing soccer. So he obviously has no chance. Photograph: Kristin Prelipp Oguntoyinbo
Party: Democratic
Website: http://www.edcowan2012.com
Hometown: Waterbury, Vermont
Occupation: Teacher and Writer
Political Experience: None.
Pet Foreign Policy Issue: 'Every nation will contribute about a third of its military forces to the Blue Helmets of the United Nations, which become the cops of the planet,' he proposes on his website.
Richard Adams’s view: Approvingly quotes Malcom X, which is pretty cool for a 73-year-old white guy from Vermont. Photograph: .
Party: Democratic
Website: http://www.darcy2012.com/
Hometown: Jacksonville, Florida
Occupation: Author and Historian
Political Experience: Managed the 1988 presidential campaign of the late Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota.
Trivia: Working on a book about the patron saint of longshot presidential candidates, the late Harold Stassen.
Richard Adams’s view: If Richardson is writing a book about Harold Stassen, the perennial candidate who ran for the presidency 12 times, then this will be good preparation. Photograph: PR
Party: Democratic
Website: http://www.verminsupreme.com
Hometown: Gloucester, Massachusetts
Occupation: Works various odd jobs.
Political Experience: Has run for president in every election since 1992. Received 41 votes in the 2008 New Hampshire Primary.
Pet Domestic Issue: Wants to implement and enforce 'mandatory toothbrushing laws' in the United States, also promises free ponies for all American citizens.
Richard Adams’s verdict: The only candidate other than Newt Gingrich who supports funding time-travel research in order to go back and kill Hitler at birth. Donated a kidney to his mother so is assured of at least one vote. Photograph: Darren McCollester/Getty Images
