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Newt Gingrich’s banking his dimming hopes on Delaware: “We’re going to try to deliver this for you, Mr. Speaker,” said State Sen. Colin Bonini, one of the former House Speaker’s supporters in the state. Gingrich has suggested that if he doesn’t win this, that’s it for him. Wait, he’s still running? source
» Wanna buy some donor information? Newt’s gotten so desperate to pay off his significant debts that he’s now selling a key element of his campaign on a TMA Direct, a direct-marketing brokering firm. You can buy the names yourself if you’d like — large donors over here and small donors over here. Anyone want to chip in $5 into a pot to buy some small donors?
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Iowa caucus prelude: Newt sheds tears over the death of his mother: In a moment that evoked Hillary Clinton’s famous 2008 tear-shed, Gingrich said this about his mom, who died in 2003: “I identify my mother with being happy, loving life, having a sense of joy in her friends.” We don’t doubt the tears are real. source
We agree entirely with Governor Romney and Massachusetts legislators that our goal should be 100 percent insurance coverage for all Americans.Newt Gingrich • Speaking in support of then Gov. Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health insurance plan back in 2006, on a site long hidden in the annals of the Internet — well, until now. Archive.org is your friend, guys. source (via • follow)
I’ve challenged Governor Romney to meet me for ninety minutes in Iowa next week, anywhere, anytime. Timekeeper. No moderator. And we will bring all of his negative ads and show them for free and he can explain them.Newt Gingrich • Offering Mitt Romney a free Lincoln-Douglas style presidential debate ahead of the January 3 Iowa Caucuses; we hope that Gingrich decides to throw in a continental breakfast to sweeten the deal! They could, like, drink some juice, eat some rubber pancakes, and talk Israel. They wouldn’t even have to stand at podiums! They could just do it in the Marriott and put it on USTREAM. It’d be awesome. source (via • follow)
Fox 5 Atlanta, which broke the Ginger White affair allegations that derailed Herman Cain’s campaign, now reports via Twitter that Cain will endorse Newt Gingrich, which is a huge kick in the pants for the former House speaker’s campaign.
If he doesn’t screw up over the next month … With Iowa just around the corner, the former House speaker has momentum to spare, leaping far ahead of Romney. And look at Ron Paul’s super-impressive showing in this poll. (In another poll, he’s ahead of Romney.) With Cain now out of the race, it looks like Gingrich could get a huge bump out of this whole thing, on top of the one he already has. Think Gingrich will coast, or will Romney become the comeback kid? Or will other candidates crop up? source
It’s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election, then people will have to ask themselves, ‘What will you tell me next time?’2012 GOP candidate Newt Gingrich • Dropping a clear attack at Mitt Romney for his tendency to flip-flop. This is a change for Gingrich: Before this week, he was known for going out of his way to avoid criticizing his fellow candidates and pointing the trigger directly at Obama. Now that he’s suddenly in the thick of the race, it looks like he’s getting braver about going after the perceived frontrunner. source (via • follow)
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Newt Gingrich’s immigration stance: Possibly a major stumbling block?: Newt’s stance in favor of a guest program for immigrants, is one that’s very dangerous to take in a Republican primary, and it could hurt his surging poll numbers. source
This crazy story’s been floating around the ether over the past day or so suggesting that Newt Gingrich’s campaign staff used a service to pay for most of his million-plus Twitter followers — a number which is ahead of every other presidential candidate besides Obama. But did he? A conflicting story’s been floating around suggesting that Newt has all those followers because he was one of the first Republican politicians on Twitter’s suggested user list, which to us sounds more realistic. No matter the case, the evidence is clear that Newt Gingrich is a social-media trailblazer who was one of the first politicians to use Google+. We’ll keep an eye on this one. source
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