TWEET from Huffpo’s Mark Blumenthal:
Our final Pollster Fl primary update: Mitt 42.3, Newt 29.0, Santo 11.9, Paul 11.1
Thought this from the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank was rather funny!
Newt Gingrich is losing his press contingent:
“As crowds thin and poll numbers drop, the press corps following him has begun to dissolve. As he took off Monday on his campaign plane — a 737 supposedly used by the Miami Heat and operated by Moby Dick Airways — he was without a media contingent.
After reporters refused to shell out more than $2,000 apiece over the weekend to fly on the Gingrich plane for a single event, the campaign punished them by canceling press charters.
To try to keep up with Gingrich, a few reporters chartered their own turbo-prop, while 20 others missed half of the candidate’s events while chasing him across Florida by bus.”
Newt’s NOT paying for Media travel, and free reporter food. And man, are they P**sed at him for it!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-end-of-the-road-for-newt-gingrich/2012/01/30/gIQALmfZdQ_story.html