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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Gingrich up big in Florida and Montana

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/11/gingrich-up-big-in-florida-and-montana.html

Here's why this is important: many of the voters that will take part in the primaries are only now beginning to pay attention to the race. Opinions are being set into concrete and are fast hardening. If these people, vaguely aware that over the past few months one bozo after another has been in the lead, are just now showing up, they're going to adapt the zeitgeist of the moment. The zeitgeist of the moment is that Romney is damaged and a hopeless flip-flopper and that Gingrich sounds reasonable. That is very dangerous to Romney.
This is why Romney has unleashed his hounds of hell upon Gingrich just now, because he has precious little time to stem the tide of negative energy surrounding his campaign. No longer does Romney have the opponents blowing themselves up with stupidity. This time he has to take on the least ethical and most sociopathic ego in the Republican party, perhaps in all of politics, who is launching broadsides against him not with ad commercials, but by simply showing up and getting interviewed. Romney is particularly vulnerable in an interview situation, perhaps because he is not surrounded by morons, so it is critical to his campaign to knock Gingrich down right away before he is forced to fight him on even ground - the Sunday talk shows.

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