Gingrich surges into second

[spanone]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's stock appears to have risen with Republican primary voters, judging by two national polls released Friday.

Gingrich, whose campaign was all but written off after a series of missteps this spring and a mass resignation of senior staff, is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance this autumn, driven by feisty debate performances where the former Speaker has made the media into a punching bag.

Witness the McClatchy-Marist poll that was published on Friday: 19 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents named Gingrich as their choice in a presidential candidate, surpassing Herman Cain at 17 percent, and trailing only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who stood at 23 percent.

The CBS News poll published Friday also had Gingrich tied for second, at 15 percent, with Romney. The pair trailed Cain (18 percent) among GOP primary voters, according to the poll. Gingrich displaced Cain as the top choice of Tea Party voters, as well.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/11/8756256-gingrich-surges-into-second-but-will-it-last

[SpiralHawk]

1. "We prefer philanderering chickenhawks to serial gropers." - Republicon Moral Midgets

[Turbineguy]

3. Too nuanced.

[coalition_unwilling]

17. Spot on! The "ugh" factor is so high with all of these Repukes - n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. And this is something I've worried about. DUers are right, wish the fireworks

of candidates exploding could have waited until much later...

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. "...is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance..."

:rofl:

[leveymg]

5. As I observed a while ago. He's the only Pug in the field with a known national brand.

I would not be at all surprised if he's the GOOP candidate and turns out to be a far more formidable opponent than many people -- particularly the Dem professional Insider class -- seem to anticipate.

If Obama thinks he can continue running to the center and as a economic conservative and foreign policy hawk, further turning off Progressive base, he may very well lose the election that would otherwise be his to win.

[RKP5637]

12. It has to be recognized he's a smart person and experienced,

and could be the R nominee the way the others are flaking out. And as you said, "a known national brand." And R's could give a sh** IMO that he was kicked out of the senate... and how he treated his wive(s). And some R's probably think of Romney as a far left liberal from MA.

[Lizzie Poppet]

14. And no way he'll leave the race...

...unless it gets cancer.

[RKP5637]

15. I always liken him to a troll that lives under the bridge and comes out. Yep, I agree,

he'll never leave the race ... he's like a wound that does not heal.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. That's a terrific line!

:thumbsup:

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. :)

[gratuitous]

6. About that CBS poll, the frontrunner, with 31% is . . .

"Undecided/Someone else." In fact, the distance between Herman Cain at 18% and the true frontrunner is greater than the distances between Cain and Rick Perry and Ron Paul. But, since the favored narrative of the popular media is "Democrats are in disarray," not "Republicans are in disarray," you'll hear about only the persistence of Cain's front-runner status and the surprising surge of Gingrich. Because saying that Republicans don't have the first clue about who they want as their nominee is verboten in the popular media.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. has "surge" been redefined for republican presidential candidate failures?

Too funny....

[HereSince1628]

8. More like the rest of the field has surged backward

I'd like to know from which part of the spectrum that 31% supporting for none of the above represents. Are they even further to the right of this field? Or are they r's with growing desire for a moderate that is less mormon than Romney?

[spanone]

9. he's in second with 19% .....bwawawawaaahaa

nobody really wants any part of any of these clowns

[Rageneau]

10. What an opportunity for McCain, or Cheney, or Dole, or Quayle, or Palin...

or any of the other still-viable GOP presidential candidates of recent years.

I tell ya, picking a GOP nominee gets more like "Survivor" every year.

Such quantities of quality candidates the Republicans have!

[Chipper Chat]

11. I say. it's time for PAIN to jump in the race, I tells ya!

She would jump to the head of the pack and the Teapartyists would be popping chamPAIN corks.

[RKP5637]

16. Frightening - a Palin/Bachmann GOP ticket. n/t

[Cirque du So-What]

13. I could see this coming a mile away

As soon as the KochCain sexual harassment scandal hit the corporate media, I knew it was Noot's turn in the barrel as the anybody-but-Romney candidate.

[onethatcares]

18. assholes never remember the "Contract on America"

do they?

[hatrack]

19. Is Santorum still bringing up the rear?

Bah-dah-BOOM!

[lunatica]

24. LOL!

He sure is! It's a position he's used to.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. Herman is gonna get Newtered

Watch out for a new and improved shit fit by Gingrich at the next debate, as hissy fits are apparently working with conservative aidiences. You could do a Saturday Night Live skit on it; they ask him something innocuous like "how would you fix the economy?" and Newt goes neanderthal on the woman asking the question.

[struggle4progress]

21. the Rs are thrashing wildly around, looking for a viable candidate -- but Newt the Grinch ain't it

[lunatica]

23. They finally hit rock bottom!

[SoCalDem]

26. I would have chosen "oozes" into 2nd

:rofl: