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Gingrich's future hinges on Delaware
MSNBC ^ | 4-20-12 | Moe

Posted on 04/20/2012 6:51:31 PM PDT by VinL

The future of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign seems to hinge on the Delaware primary early next week.

"Tuesday is a big day," a source close to the Gingrich campaign told NBC News. "Newt is just waiting to see what happens on Tuesday."

Up until now, Gingrich has promised to take his campaign all the way to the Republican convention in Tampa at the end of the summer, although the odds are not in his favor.

The former House speaker has been spending the majority of his time the past three weeks in the First State. Gingrich has made at least 12 campaign stops in Delaware thus far while the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, has held just one event there.

Gingrich campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond said they are "optimistic" about the results in the state.

"Because Delaware is a small state it has allowed us to campaign effectively," Hammond said.

“We are looking for a bounce from Delaware and, with a good showing in the state, we will spend a lot of time on the phone with donors."

The campaign originally said late Friday night that the speaker would spend Monday campaigning in Delaware and then would head to Virginia (where Gingrich lives) for Tuesday. Just 30 minutes later, the campaign said Gingrich would be in North Carolina next week instead.

"Newt's North Carolina trip next week is back on - there was a communications glitch," Hammond told NBC News about the error.

The primaries on April 24 will be the first time voters take to the polls...

(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: de2012; gingrich; msdnc4romney; newt; newt2012; newtgingrich; romneydirtytricks; romneyganda; romneyprop
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To: VinL
"Newt's North Carolina trip next week is back on - there was a communications glitch," Hammond told NBC News about the error.

Owned. Nothing is over. Nothing. The lamestream media has been told this enought that they should know Newt is in it all the way to Tampa!


21 posted on 04/20/2012 8:31:57 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: lonevoice

“Moreover, here is something not widely known — the polls for the last two weeks have been showing that Newt, even as the media was coronating Romney, has been holding a remarkable residual strength in North Carolina. What does that mean?

It means Republican voters in North Carolina are in the mood to cause an upheaval — to tell the national news media that primary voters and not a lot of elitist liberals will pick our party’s nominee.”

Go Newt! Go North Carolina!


22 posted on 04/20/2012 8:35:34 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: VinL

23 posted on 04/20/2012 8:51:06 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it ain't Newt, we're screwt !)
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To: conservative98
“Moreover, here is something not widely known — the polls for the last two weeks have been showing that Newt, even as the media was coronating Romney, has been holding a remarkable residual strength in North Carolina. What does that mean?

It means Republican voters in North Carolina are in the mood to cause an upheaval — to tell the national news media that primary voters and not a lot of elitist liberals will pick our party’s nominee.”

This is getting scary! RNC establishment strategy: Publish no poll numbers; spread the word that Romney is the nominee; have people vote based on blackout and misinformation expecting Romney to win big; then hit hard with Romney’s wins and Newt’s losses to bully Newt into dropping. (The news media are complying, including Fox News who are even slamming Newt for his rightful Secret Service protection expense while not mentioning that Paul is getting the same cover)

Please do yourself the honor of reviewing actual polls by doing a Google search for “2012 Republican presidential polls (name state)” and you will see why the RNC is using this tactic. Then spread the word!

Obama with dem-media complex, millions of dollars, sycophants everywhere in the media, versus Mitt Romney with the entire conservative media capitulated behind him, his millions, and NEWTON LEROY GINGRICH is only 7 points behind Obama in the lastest Rasmussen tracking?

General Election: Gingrich vs. Obama

Romney vs. Obama | Santorum vs. Obama | Paul vs. Obama

Polling Data

Poll

Date

Sample

Obama (D)

Gingrich (R)

Spread

RCP Average

3/8 - 4/17

--

51.7

38.8

Obama +12.9

Rasmussen Reports

4/16 - 4/17

1000 LV

47

40

Obama +7

PPP (D)

4/12 - 4/15

900 RV

51

42

Obama +9

McClatchy/Marist

3/20 - 3/22

846 RV

53

38

Obama +15

FOX News

3/10 - 3/12

912 RV

53

35

Obama +18

Bloomberg

3/8 - 3/11

746 LV

52

41

Obama +11

Reuters/Ipsos

3/8 - 3/11

937 RV

54

37

Obama +17

See All General Election: Gingrich vs. Obama Polling Data

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_gingrich_vs_obama-1453.html#polls

 

 

24 posted on 04/20/2012 8:56:18 PM PDT by true believer forever (GO NEWT! On to Tampa - hang tight - we can do this!!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I thought tuesday was the Pennsylvania primary. How will it help GIngrich if he does respectably in Delaware, but Romney ends up with Pa? I thought that when Santorum dropped out, Gingrich would make a big push to take Pennsylvania.

PA is one of the most expensive media markets in the country... one of the reasons Santorum knew he couldn't compete against Romney's ads. DE is a very small state and much more easy to blanket media and grassroots wise..

GOT PHONE?

Please makes calls for Newt into DE this weekend:

www.phone.newt.org

25 posted on 04/20/2012 8:59:14 PM PDT by true believer forever (GO NEWT! On to Tampa - hang tight - we can do this!!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
"Gingrich can still stop Romney from getting the nomination, he just can’t get the nomination himself."

Now that is not true.

Watch what happens when Mitt's other wifes are exposed. My point, until its over, its not over.

26 posted on 04/20/2012 9:01:26 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Any Republican. Just NO Obama.)
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To: lightman

Romney = Eight more years of Øbamanomics.
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A great GOP majority in the House and Senate will prevent any such thing.

Conservatives need to focus on the downstream GOP candidates because that’s where the power is located.

Just look at how the Dem House and Senate totally wrecked the last two years of Bush 43s term and continued to wreck the US during the first two years of the Obama term.


27 posted on 04/21/2012 4:10:55 AM PDT by octex
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