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  • Tea party vs. cocktail party in Fla.

    01/26/2012 3:46:03 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 10 replies
    The Politico ^ | January 26, 2012 | Jonathan Martin
    TAMPA, Fla. — As the Republican race moves to a state defined by the extremes in recession-era America — where the underwater and unemployed live just a few miles from the 1 percent — a sharp class divide is emerging between the two top contenders. Mitt Romney’s crowds look like something out of the president’s suite at a University of Florida football game — prosperous, trim, Tattersall-clad, and supportive but not rowdy. Newt Gingrich supporters, with their spray-painted signs, American flag tees, flip-flops and fanny packs, more closely resemble a group that would fit in nicely playing a few bucks...
  • Mitt: The eggshell candidate

    01/23/2012 3:06:44 AM PST · by trumandogz · 23 replies
    Politico ^ | 1.23.12 | JONATHAN MARTIN and JOHN F. HARRIS
    Perfect resume, perfect looks, perfect family, and a perfect roster of skilled campaign operatives and blue-chip endorsements: Mitt Romney has them all. Yet he comes out of his drubbing in South Carolina with a perfect dilemma.
  • How Newt Gingrich blew it: An Iowa road map

    01/02/2012 5:59:08 PM PST · by VU4G10 · 55 replies
    politico.com ^ | 1/2/12 8:22 PM EST | JONATHAN MARTIN
    MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa – The high water mark of Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign may have been November 27th, the day the New Hampshire Union Leader endorsed his candidacy for president. The famously conservative paper’s endorsement was a priceless gift. The former House Speaker proceeded to squander it. In doing so, Gingrich revealed that he learned all the wrong lessons from his campaign’s collapse this summer and none of the right ones from his remarkable comeback. Instead of seizing the moment and making an aggressive case for why the contest was now a two-man race between a movement conservative and flip-flopping moderate...