And it's a really saddening display watching them casting about a crop of other candidates with such desperation.
"Tuning in to the Gingrich pitch; Poll numbers rise, as some rivals reel" by Michael Levenson | Globe Staff, November 12, 2011
EPSOM, N.H - After months of being written off as a faded warrior just hoping to get back in the national conversation, Newt Gingrich is suddenly surging among conservative Republican primary voters who have been looking every which way for a credible alternative to Mitt Romney.
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel, huh?
And what is with the endless war terminology in ever damn article anyway?
A CBS poll released yesterday showed Gingrich tied for second with Romney, at 15 percent, just behind Herman Cain, at 18 percent. A McClatchy-Marist poll released yesterday showed him holding second place alone, with 19 percent, behind Romney, at 23 percent, and ahead of Cain, at 17 percent. No recent statewide New Hampshire polls have been done. Polls earlier in the fall showed Gingrich with very little support in the Granite State.
I no longer believe MSM polls, readers; I think the numbers are literally made up.
“There’s no doubt he’s now drawing the kind of support that the other leaders are getting,’’ said Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in New York. “He may end up being the only pin standing in the anybody-but-Romney group.’’
But given the seesaw nature of the Republican primary it is not clear yet whether Gingrich’s boomlet will last, or if voters will eventually move on, as they did after flirtations with Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry.
It also remains to be seen if Gingrich’s revival is the product of a truly reinvigorated campaign or if he is simply one of the last contenders in the race with an air of gravitas and serious conservative credentials.
Republicans are also expecting that Gingrich’s personal life - he has been married three times and has acknowledged infidelities - will come under renewed scrutiny as he rises in the polls....
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Related:
"Private polling suggests the harassment controversy has taken a bite out of Cain’s once-solid lead in Iowa. And a new nationwide CBS News poll out yesterday indicates he has lost support among women.
Yeah, Cain is on his way out, purpose accomplished.
The CBS News poll, conducted Nov. 6-10 during the span of both crises, suggests a three-way tie for the nomination between Cain, Mitt Romney, and a resurgent Newt Gingrich among GOP primary voters.
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And now there is talk of Sarah Palin getting into the race!
Update:
I watched about half-an-hour of the Republican debate on CBS tonight and was sickened. I saw Ron Paul answer a question about torture, declaring waterboarding is illegal as the rest of the Repuglican clowns fell over each other endorsing it.
Other than that the "commander-in-chief debate," as CBS called it, was nothing more than a contest over who is more eager to please Israel by attacking Iran.
The other interesting visual of the night proved to be Gingrich in between Romney and Perry in the middle of the stage. During the time I watched I noticed Gingrich got a lot of time and many questions. Can the scripted set-up be any more obvious?
The odd thing is the more Gingrich talks the more the arrogance comes through. The guy just seems like a real asshole. Must be why he doesn't do a lot of campaigning.
