Posted on 12/12/2015 3:19:39 PM PST by Helicondelta
A surge in support for Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich has made him the new front-runner in Iowa, which holds the first of next year's U.S. presidential nominating contests, according to a closely watched opinion poll published Saturday.
Gingrich, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has support from 25 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers, up from just 7 percent in late October, the poll conducted for The Des Moines Register newspaper found.
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Texas Representative Ron Paul and Romney finished second and third, with support at 18 percent and 16 percent, respectively.
Support for Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann and former pizza magnate Herman Cain, who dropped out of the race on Saturday, was tied at 8 percent in the Register poll.
Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum each drew 6 percent
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Jesus, what a joke.
Wonderful polling outfit.
Why, you didn’t like the post? LOL
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Newt is as much a RINO as Romney.
Newt is brilliant where as romney is only rich
Newt admires Trump. He probably also wishes he was as wealthy as Trump considering how much his wife likes to spend.
Newt was way better than Romney and actually had a chance of winning the general. He wasn't perfect, but he was definitely his own man. Saint Rick was doomed from the beginning for many of the same reasons Ted Cruz is. Mittens was the establishment choice and was totally owned by them.
That was a Dec 12 poll. almost two months before the primary. It was likely accurate at the time. Where you can’t seem to understand polls is that you assume they are predictive of the future. They are not.
In 2011-12, with Newt leading the polls, all six other candidates unleashed a relentless anti Newt campaign and changed the electorate.
Strange isn’t it, that this is not working with Trump. This is one strange campaign.
No, calling him “much” more conservative than Romney is laughable. And no he wouldn’t have beaten Obama. He would have lost by a larger margin, maybe costing us the House.
Santorum was a poor candidate but easily beater than Romney, Newt, and Paul.
And go Cruz, easily the best choice this time.
Romney was not even conservative, but always a fraud and just a politician. Newt was and is conservative and had the best plans out of all the candidates. Saint Rick might have had plans, but you never heard about them, because he ran a campaign of kissing up to Evangelicals, even to the point that his Issues page on his website headlined the horrors of Pornography, but didn't say crap about economics or much else.
That's why he lost to Mittens.
Newt went down due to the treachery of Matt Drudge putting out all those false anti-Newt stories, all later debunked, but far too late. Hush Bimbo and the rest of the talking heads didn't raise a finger to back him up.
And no he wouldn’t have beaten Obama.
Yes, he would have. Newt was a better debater than Romney and willing to put up a fight. Mittens was doomed from the start because he was a filthy cult leader and a liar who turned off all his voters.
Newt lost when attacked Romney from the left on Bain Capital, turning off conservatives.
After that he was coming in 3rd or 4th to Paul in most contests and yet some fools here were still supporting him over the only viable anti-Romney, thanks a lot.
He ran a horrible race, no way he would have beaten Obama.
Trump by 13 in CNN poll.
Not conservatives. Establishment "Conservatives" and their lemmings who confuse vulture capitalism with actual business acumen. Newt was strong until bloody thursday with Drudge's multiple bombs, coordinated with the Romney campaign.
He ran a horrible race, no way he would have beaten Obama.
Anyone with leadership qualities would have been Obama. Romney was no leaders and the GOP suckered its "conservative electorate".
The fake title reflects the tears of a clown or of a Trumpster (but I repeat myself) upon coming to the realization the the loyal Democrat Trump will lose Iowa.
What caused you to make up a fake title for this?
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