Democrats take Gingrich seriously. Romney will highlight “integrity,” family. His campaign’s still built for a long contest.
In the southwest corner of a low-rise office park on the outskirts of Des Moines, the hottest campaign in presidential politics is scrambling to get organized. Newt Gingrich’s Iowa headquarters is a spare ground-floor suite with cell-phone boxes strewn across bare industrial carpeting and a handful of empty folding tables to accommodate the anticipated surge of volunteers. It opened six days ago.
The theme of President Obama’s speech on Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kans., was not wholly unfamiliar. Fairness, he argued, is a core American value that has been lost in the past decade of wage stagnation and economic crisis, and restoring that value to the middle class requires shared sacrifice — from the wealthy in the form of [...]
What strikes me most about the Iowa poll numbers Adam flagged earlier is this: In seeking to draw a contrast with his competitors, especially Gingrich, Romney has repeatedly noted that the former Speaker was a “career politician,” while he spent most of his life in business. That message might be getting through, but the Post [...]
Ron Paul fires the opening salvo of what’s likely to be a month-long TV ad blitz buffeting Newt Gingrich in Iowa: It’s Mitt Romney though who has the most to lose from a Gingrich victory there and he has a much larger warchest to fund an anti-Newt campaign. Here’s the first sign that his forces [...]
On Tuesday morning, former Vice President Dan Quayle endorsed Mitt Romney, as did California Congressmen Jerry Lewis, Ken Calvert and Brian Bilbray. On Monday morning, Tennessee Congressmen Jimmy Duncan, Diane Black and Phil Roe announced their support. In the past month Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte and John Thune of South [...]
At first blush, a poll showing Mitt Romney trailing Newt Gingrich among likely Iowa caucus goers shouldn’t be too worrying for the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign. There’s been a steady ebb and flow of chief competitors this fall and, although Romney recently started investing heavily in the state he long ignored, Iowa was never going [...]
Now that President Barack Obama has embraced his inner populist, he’s finding all kinds of weapons lying around to beat Republicans with. The payroll tax cut is getting a lot of attention. If his success with conservative appellate court judges is any indication, the constitutionality of ObamaCare will be another. The latest weapon Obama is [...]
Gingrich takes double-digit leads in Iowa and South Carolina. Republicans rate him most “acceptable;” he’s a big hit among Tea Partyers and seniors. Romney’s end-of-term purge of state computers cost Massachusetts taxpayers $100,000.
Monday kicked off the final sprint to the Iowa caucuses, now less than a month away. This critical week will be capped Saturday by a debate in Des Moines, a forum that would be a logical centerpiece for a trip to drum up or cement candidates’ Iowa support. And yet, most of the field is nowhere to be found.
