“It’s like running a whip’s race for the speakership or majority leader,” said Rick Tyler of the pro-Gingrich Winning our Future super PAC. Gingrich allies will work to convince the party activists who serve as convention delegates that if they aren’t bound to a candidate by state party rules, they should go with the former House speaker.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich addressed a crowd of supporters Tuesday night in Atlanta, Georgia, on the evening of Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in 10 states and a projected win for him in his home state’s primary.
“We survived every effort of the establishment to stop us,” he told the crowd.
"I am the tortoise, I just take one step at a time."
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Gingrich, who won South Carolina and now Georgia.
"Once at the top, feel the wind race across your face as you are propelled through the remote blackness of the dark universe … you just never know which way you are going to turn or drop!"
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(Disney’s description of Space Mountain, the ride.)
‘The race for Florida is on.
A new CNN/Time/ORC poll released Wednesday of likely GOP primary voters in the Sunshine State showed Newt Gingrich running a close second to Mitt Romney narrowing a 25-point deficit to two points in the span of a week.’
Lynn Coffin, creator of Bozo Party, shows off hand puppets of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney boxing during a campaign event this week in Sarasota, Fla. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
Watch Newt Gingrich’s victory speech if you missed it:
“Thank you to everyone in South Carolina who decided to be with us in changing Washington,” Newt Gingrich said, adding later: “We are optimists about the future.”
More on Newt Gingrich and Vote 2012: http://to.pbs.org/SCliveblog
Stay tuned to this map for live results of the South Carolina primary all night.
Fun Saturday plans right there.
