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It's not just journalists and political nerds fantasizing about a brokered convention for Republicans in August. Now, even Sarah Palin is talking about it. The idea is that if none of the candidates is able to win a majority of delegates before the convention in Tampa, the presidential nominee will be picked through rounds of votes after lots of deal-making and alliance-shifting. It took 16 days and 103 votes for Democrats to pick their nominee in 1924, The Washington Post explains; Ronald Reagan threatened to steal some of Gerald Ford's delegates in 1976, but failed. Most Republican officials say there's...

10 reasons he is toast: 1)He now is showing a major gender gap in his female voting whereas 2-3 weeks ago in polls it was negligible. Santorum lost Catholic women in Michigan to Romney by about 15-20 points. 2)Newt Gingrich will rise again to cancel Santorum out making each other non-viable. Major conservative vote splitting will occur again allowing Romney to come up the middle. 3)My prediction (other than Washington)is that Santorum doesn't win another contest in this primary season. 4)Romney has all the momentum and too much of an advantage in money and organization and will have the nomination...

CHATTANOOGA (WRCB) - While much of the political world focused on Tuesday's Michigan Republican presidential primary, Newt Gingrich focused his events on the Tennessee Valley today. He also took time for a one-on-one interview with Channel 3. The campaign is currently in North Georgia, where Gingrich will address supporters at public rally at the Convention Center. Hundreds have gathered at the Convention Center for an opportunity to listen to the former Speaker. "Your help making sure we carry Georgia really, really matters," Gingrich tells his supporters in Dalton. He noted that Georgia has the most delegate votes of any state...

Three of the four major Republican presidential candidates will be in Washington state Thursday and Friday seeking support in advance of the Washington caucuses on Saturday. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, coming off an easy win in Arizona and a narrow victory in Michigan, has long been scheduled to hold a $1,000-per-person fundraiser in Bellevue on Thursday evening. UPDATE: The Romney campaign announced a "Meet and Greet with Mitt" at 8 a.m. Friday in Bellevue. Romney will appear at a Thursday afternoon rally in Idaho Falls. Idaho will hold its own presidential caucuses on Tuesday and Romney is expected to...

Drudge links to Hot Air article about indications Newt rising in national poll.

Apparently against steep odds, Newt Gingrich has been trying to expand his Georgia political base north into Tennessee. The Republican presidential candidate, who has a wide lead in Georgia in two recent polls, is striving for a strong showing in the Volunteer State. It, like Georgia, is one of 11 states with primaries or caucuses on Tuesday, and its 58 delegates are the third-biggest prize up for grabs. Of the “Super Tuesday” states, only Georgia, with 76 delegates, and Ohio, with 66, are more delegate-rich. Gingrich, a former Georgia congressman and House speaker, has largely written off Ohio in favor...

As a Georgia Super Tuesday voter, the Michigan and Arizona primary results will (and will not) influence my vote to some degree. Let me explain. While I want to cast my vote for the candidate who shares my views politically and otherwise, the options currently available leave a lot to be desired, and that includes the current president. But like my fellow voters, I have to decide on one candidate or the other, whether one of them fits the bill perfectly or not. Of the Republicans, Newt Gingrich is the only one with ties to Georgia. He's also the only...

(AP) Republican candidate Newt Gingrich will speak to lawmakers in his old home state ahead of Georgia's primary on Super Tuesday. The former House speaker will start Wednesday with one-on-one meetings with key supporters, including Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal. Gingrich is then scheduled to speak before the state House of Representatives and appear at a Statehouse news conference with supporters. House Speaker David Ralston has not endorsed any candidates in the presidential primary.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennesseans cast 40 percent fewer ballots going into the last day of early voting Tuesday compared with the presidential primary in 2008. Nearly 153,000 people had voted through Monday, with 79 percent of ballots cast in the Republican presidential primary. But without a challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama, voting totals are far off the state record set in 2008. Turnout is 73 percent higher than during Republican President George W. Bush's re-election in 2004. Early voting has been heaviest in Knox County, where more than 11,000 people have voted in the Republican primary, compared with only...

ROME, GA -- While his Republican presidential rivals await voter returns from Michigan and Arizona, Newt Gingrich is continuing to fight for his political life in the South while on a bus tour across his home state of Georgia. “Georgia is the biggest group of delegates up on Super Tuesday so this is a big deal. And it really, really matters,” Gingrich told an overflowing crowd this morning in Dalton. -snip- The lyrics, “I am a real American. Fight for what's right, fight for your life!" from the popular Hulk Hogan entrance song -- “Real American” -- blasted through the...

The top super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich is going up with nearly $900,000 worth of radio ads in six key states holding contests in the next two weeks. The Winning Our Future ad buy appears to come on the heels of another significant cash infusion from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and gives Gingrich the kind of presence on the airwaves that he hasn’t had on Super Tuesday, which could be a make-or-break moment for his struggling campaign. According to figures provided to The Fix by a media buy, the super PAC bought $238,000 worth of ads in Georgia, $235,000 in...

Many people are looking to the many primary elections on March 6th — "Super Tuesday" — to clarify where this year's Republican nomination campaign is headed. It may clarify far more than that, including the future of this nation and of Western civilization. If a clear winner with a commanding lead emerges, the question then becomes whether that candidate is someone who is likely to defeat Barack Obama. If not, then the fate of America — and of Western nations, including Israel — will be left in the hands of a man with a lifelong hostility to Western values...

PUBLIC SCHEDULE Herman Cain / Jackie Gingrich Cushman Bus Tour Friday 3/2 FRANKLIN, TN 5:30pm Central - Franklin: VIP Dinner at Zolo's 20 attendees (possible donor opportunity) Contact Monty Lankford for Reservations - 615-498-3328 monty@leadersoftennessee.org 7:00pm Central - Franklin City Club, public reception / rally 130 9th Ave South, Franklin Tn 37064 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Saturday 3/3 CHATTANOOGA, TN Contact Charles Harvey 703-309-6948 9:30am - 10:00am Eastern - Chattanooga: VIP Kick Off at Gingrich Head Quarters (Meet n Greet / Load Bus) 1 Park Place, Lee Hwy, Ste 300 Chattanooga TN FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC...

ROME – Returning to Georgia Tuesday for several days of campaigning, Newt Gingrich accused Pakistan of hiding Osama bin Laden before U.S. Navy SEALs assassinated him during a daring night raid last May and said the United States should reevaluate its relationship with Islamic countries. "We now know that the Pakistanis for seven years were hiding bin Laden in a military city within a mile of their national defense university," the former Georgia congressman told hundreds of supporters gathered in an airplane hangar in Rome. "Does any serious person believe that could have been done without a significant part of...

An Alabama campaign event for Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has moved to a new location to accommodate a bigger audience. Gingrich, seeking the GOP nomination, announced last week he would speak at the Ritz Theater in Talladega on March 7. But an official with his Alabama campaign said the event will be shifted to Pell City "to allow for a larger venue and a more direct route to Birmingham." "We determined the seating capacity was far short of what we needed," said Steve Dean, Talledega County campaign chairman for Gingrich. Gingrich, a Georgia native and former U.S. Speaker of...

TRIAL HEAT Romney50%+2 Obama46%-2 Obama49%-2 Santorum48%+5 Economy Is Paramount Issue to U.S. Voters Social issues, immigration are less important February 29, 2012 Registered voters rate the economy as the most important issue to their 2012 presidential vote, followed by unemployment, the federal budget deficit, and the 2010 healthcare law. Social issues rank as the least important issue.

Far behind Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney in Ohio polls, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has recruited a close adviser to Gov. John Kasich to help his presidential campaign here. Gingrich on Wednesday announced that Franklin County Republican Party Chairman Doug Preisse would serve on his leadership team, which will be led by former U.S. Rep. Bob McEwen of the Cincinnati area. "Newt Gingrich is a great American leader with a pro-growth strategy to put Americans back to work," Preisse said in a statement released by the campaign. Preisse is a top Kasich political consultant and Columbus lobbyist who...

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain will stump on behalf of Newt Gingrich in Cleveland this Saturday. Cain will deliver his speech at Lee University's Rose Lecture Hall at 1 p.m. The event, hosted by the Lee University College Republicans, is free and open to the public. Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, is most recently known for running an unconventional, unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination last year. His 9-9-9 tax reform plan briefly made him the GOP front-runner until allegations regarding extramarital affairs dismantled his campaign. The speech comes less than one week before Tennessee voters go...

ATLANTA Newt Gingrich, campaigning at the state Capitol today, said he would deepen Savannah’s port if he’s elected president. “I think it has to be done,” the Republican former House speaker said in an interview with Morris News Service. “You have the widening of the Panama Canal, which will be completed by 2014, and if you don’t appropriately expand the harbors, you can’t deal with the new, larger shipments, so it’s really very, very important.” Gingrich said he would fund the $400 million project by authorizing offshore drilling for natural gas. “The initial bids on the leased properties would more...