Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Newt under attack


The last several days, Newt Gingrich has been under attack with a vengeance it seems. His numbers have dropped and the media and those in his own party have sought to bleed the ox as much as they can while they feel he is wounded.

We shall see how this plays out wit the public as we approach Iowa in two weeks.

Newt takes a drumming

Slipping in polls under an onslaught of attacks, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich promises to wage a sharper and more aggressive campaign in the final two weeks before Iowa kicks off the party's nominating race.


Gingrich says he will be quicker to respond to attacks and more agile in getting his message across to voters who may have lost faith in him after rivals launched a withering barrage of criticism of his past as a Washington insider.
A 44-stop bus tour in the run-up to the January 3 Iowa caucus, daily calls with supporters to respond to new criticisms and another round of television ads will be cornerstones of the response by Gingrich, who will focus most of his efforts in Iowa for the next two weeks.


"I think a certain amount of drop in polls was to be expected given the amount of negative campaigning that has been going on," said Linda Upmeyer, the Iowa House Republican leader and the state chairwoman of Gingrich's campaign.

1 comment:

XtnYoda said...

The upside to all of this just might be that by the time we get to THE candidate, they will have been pretty well vetted, and any negative smears will then be old news.