“Question, who if anybody does Newt take votes from?”
He’ll take them from whoever he can :)
I think he’s been executing a smart strategy so far. He knows that the conservative candidates with “tea party appeal” have to duke it out and destroy each other in order to have the support to take on Romney. He also knows that, in the process, they are likely to damage each other enough that none of them will be able to emerge unscathed. He’s been generally keeping out of that fight, looking good in the debates, and hoping that, at the end of the day, he is seen as the last hope to stop Romney.
The longer this drags on, the closer we get to the moment where the press actually hits him with the supposed "scandal" that ended his first marriage, and the Congressional ethics sanctions (which will ending up sounding very familiar to Palinites). The msm, and even the conservative media has been alluding to them for years now, but even the majority on this website don't seem to know the true stories. So when we get to that moment, and Newt gets to explain himself, I have a feeling that virtually all of the non-liberal electorate is going to say "That's it???," and move on to selecting the man most qualified to right the economy, fix a broken congress, restore America to its rightful place in the world, and kick Obama's ass in a debate. And that is exactly what will happen unless we allow inconsequential political differences and litmus tests to default us into another establishment candidate.