Friday, November 25, 2011

Gingrich the MAN ? - Republican Race


RCP: Reports on its average of the polls for the Republican race, as of now former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich leads the pack, here is today’s snapshot of the race, “ Gingrich 23.2%, Romney 21% and Cain 18.2% ”. Lets be honest here folks, the others in the race can be discounted, Perry is a busted flush, first impressions count, and his bad debate performances and his support for allowing illegal immigrants to go to University has not played well with the Republican race. Thus we come to the two man race between Gingrich and Romney, the Cain Campaign has never really come back from the sexual allegations against, not fair but that is politics folks. It can be argued that Governor Romney has to be careful, he has allowed his challengers to self explode on the campaign trail, but Gingrich is different, he had awful start but has come back, plus his personal baggage is well known to the press and to the voters. Romney has to take Gingrich on, he has started this with his attack on the Gingrich appeal for a humane approach to immigration, this attack might work well with the base, on the other hand the base wants someone who can win, they might think Gingrich taking on the base might work well in the General Election, thus give him a pass on this policy. The Speaker has to careful, he as come across as the most intelligent man in the room, but in this modern election cycle you have to be brief and to the point, he would defeat Obama in debates, but he as to get there first, so it could be either Gingrich or Romney folks, six weeks to go before Iowa.

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