But the Gingrich bombast and baggage will be too much for many of such voters to take.
Not with any sentient beings who have had enough of Obama's disastrous term. This is a referendum on Obama. These on the right and leaning right will hold their noses. It will be anybody but Obama in the general. Almost three out of five independents don't approve of Obama's performance.
IMO Newt is the kind of high risk candidate who could implode and receive only 30-something percent of the vote, particularly given a ‘reasonable’ non-Obama alternative.
I doubt Obama gets close to 50% of the vote himself, but it’s that third-party GOP alternative that they’re counting on.