Romney’s closing argument in Iowa: His Super PAC is still deep-sixing Gingrich. Newt Inc. is doing just fine.
Spencer, Iowa Newt Gingrich has a problem. It’s not just the avalanche of attack ads burying his campaign, or his comparative lack of cash, or the nattering naysayers’ inability to wrap their heads around his unorthodox playbook. Gingrich’s problem is that with less than a week before the Iowa caucuses, as he barnstorms the state [...]
Clinton, Iowa As Mitt Romney enters the final stretch in Iowa, poll numbers rising, crowds appearing, the inevitability beginning to sink in, his message is honed down, lean and mean, with declarative sentences that slice the air with the flashy precision of a fruit ninja. “I love this country,” he says, as if this sets [...]
On Wednesday afternoon, state senator Kent Sorenson appeared with Michele Bachmann as the chair of her Iowa campaign. On Wednesday evening, Sorenson was stepping onto the stage at a veterans’ rally to endorse Ron Paul, switching alliances less than a week before the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
With less than a week to go until Republicans cast the first votes of the 2012 presidential race in Iowa, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas congressman Ron Paul remain atop the field there, even as the fortunes of their closest competitors are quickly changing, according to a new CNN/TIME/ORC poll released Wednesday.
The foreign policy crisis horizon shows little respect for the calendar New Year: The Obama Administration ought to have a good idea of the crises that await it in different global hotspots as it braces for an election year. But a recurring theme in the current menu of challenges, whether in the Middle East, north [...]
The Ron Paul pile-on, save for Romney, has begun in earnest. Paul counter-punches. Pragmatism is Romney’s ally, even in Iowa. Paul’s still ahead there, but the top six are hard to figure. He could change the party, even without a win.
The new and improved Romney travels the country not with a list, but with a story. “This is an election not to replace a President but to save a vision of America. It’s a choice between two destinies,” he said a few weeks back in New Hampshire. “This will be a campaign about the soul of America, about American greatness. I’m confident that Americans won’t settle for an excuse that ‘it could be worse.’”
Iowa City, Iowa Sad to say, Rush was not at his usual radio stand as I drove through the cornfields on Tuesday afternoon, a replacement called Mark Belling was sitting in–but it was curious stuff, all the same. There was a dollop of hair-pulling: Why on earth can’t the Republicans ever come up with a [...]
Michael Scherer directs me to this new ad from Newt Gingrich, an upbeat composite of debate talking points on the economy. It’s reportedly a “major buy” scheduled to run through next week in Iowa–his closing argument. It’s also a very odd choice for this moment in the race.
