Newt Gingrich ended his campaign earlier this month with nearly $4.8 million in campaign debt, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission that reflected campaign activity through the end of April. Several Florida firms, including a couple of mom-and-pop printing companies, are listed on Gingrich’s debt report and, with Gingrich’s campaign unlikely [...]
Imagine Newt Gingrich was not a political candidate, but a restaurant. Call it Newt’s Old Fashioned BBQ. Imagine that, tonight, there was a sign on the door at Newt’s Old Fashioned BBQ which read that Newt was cutting back its schedule and that the cash-strapped restaurant was laying off a third of its staff. Imagine [...]
Newt Gingrich told NPR that “he sees no reason to exit the Republican presidential race and that there’s a chance of a new contender emerging at the party’s convention in August.” Said Gingrich: “I’m not so sure you wouldn’t get a series of brand new players.” Also interesting: Gingrich admitted for the first time he was likely [...]
While party rules may prevent Newt Gingrich from being presented for the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, ABC News notes that this isn’t as meaningful as some have made it out to be. “If Gingrich fails to meet the five-state threshold, he won’t be eligible for the nomination when the convention begins. No delegate will [...]
A new Gallup Poll finds just 35% of Republicans say they would vote “enthusiastically” for Mitt Romney if he wins the GOP nomination — “similar to Republicans’ feelings about voting for Romney in early 2008, but lower than the enthusiasm level for that year’s eventual GOP nominee, John McCain.” Just 34% were enthusiastic about voting for Rick [...]
Sources close to Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign tell Fox News that there are preliminary discussions to name Texas Gov. Rick Perry as his running mate in an effort to unite conservatives. Perry endorsed Gingrich when he dropped his own presidential bid earlier this year. However, at least two senior aides to Perry were apparently dismissive of the [...]
Nate Silver: “Slightly more than half (57 percent) of Mr. Gingrich’s supporters would go to Mr. Santorum. About a quarter (27 percent) would go to Mr. Romney. The remainder (16 percent) would go to Ron Paul. … Mr. Santorum would have carried four states that he actually lost. The first two are the ones Mr. Gingrich [...]
It’s Super Tuesday and here is a must-read guide to the 11 states across the country — Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Wyoming — which will hold contests that will award a combined 424 delegates. The guide is complete with analysis of the candidates’ strategies, ad spending, candidate travel and [...]
Polls, polls, polls. However, before you read the lastest polling data, be sure to read Nate Silver‘s looks at the accuracy of GOP presidential race polling. “The short version: the polls have been reasonably good in the last few days before the election. Not perfect by any means — worse than general election polling typically is, [...]
