Gingrich Didn't Need Virginia Anyway
Newt Gingrich has officially given up trying to make courts allow him onto the Virginia primary ballot.
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Newt Gingrich has officially given up trying to make courts allow him onto the Virginia primary ballot.
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Cartoonist Tom Toles thinks it's going to be a crowded race for second place.
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After a long day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Now that we've had a couple hours to mourn the fact that the most boring Republican candidate will likely be the presidential nominee, it's time to hold all those pundits who tricked us into thinking there'd be someone more fun to write about accountable for their mistakes.
If they ever make a movie out of Newt Gingrich's life (we'll leave you to speculate on how likely that is), the Republican presidential candidate wants Brad Pitt to play him, TMZ reports.
The Republican Party fears it might have accidentally destroyed its village in order to save it.
Mitt Romney scored a monster victory on Tuesday, one so decisive that it may finally convince Republicans that their primary race has already been decided.
The question in the Florida Republican primary Tuesday was not whether Mitt Romney would win, but by how much.
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Some pretty nasty stats about attack ads are flowing out of Florida, giving more clout to New York Magazine's cover story last week.
Newt Gingrich's latest robo-call attacking Mitt Romney sets a new level for harshness: The GOP front-runner once voted to deprive Holocaust survivors of the kosher food they ate in Massachusetts nursing homes when he was governor.
Sorry, journalists. If Newt Gingrich wins the nomination (which of course he will — believe!) he says he does not want journalists as debate moderators, because "you don’t need to have a second Obama person in the debate." We have some alternative suggestions.
Even if he loses the Florida primary Tuesday, Gingrich predicts the nomination contest will go one for another "six or eight months… unless Romney drops out earlier."
Though he's not saying when he will make it or whom it will be for, Donald Trump is giving the Republican candidates fair warning that the endorsement no one should want is coming soon.
Mitt Romney doesn't seem like the kind of guy who'd like trash talk, but he's indulging in quite a bit of it in Florida.
Though "Eye of the Tiger" is an appropriate theme song for Newt Gingrich's rocky campaign, one of its writers doesn't wish to be associated with the candidate and is suing Newt for using the song in his various appearances.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson doesn't believe that term applies to these two.
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"I still endorse the people and Newt Gingrich. They are not exclusive of each other." explained Herman Cain on Fox News this morning.
If Newt Gingrich won South Carolina because of one of his most indefensible ideas -- ending child labor laws so that poor kids can become janitors in their own schools -- it's interesting that he's being killed in Florida over one of his most defensible ones: space exploration.
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After a long day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Among the highlights: Romney and Gingrich fought over space exploration, and who you think won that exchange depends on whether you're on Team Stingy Old Man or Team 9-Year-Old Boy.
Dozens—though it feels like thousands—of political reporters are gleefully tweeting about their ridiculous luck that the Republican presidential primary is not only still going on, but going on in Florida.
The crowds at Newt Gingrich's rallies are big, loud, and happy, while Mitt Romney's events are more subdued. Yet polls seem to show the opposite -- that Romney's gaining while Gingrich has peaked. What gives? Our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
It may be too little too late, but CNN's John King finally caught Newt Gingrich in lie and determined that Gingrich never offered ABC any of his personal friends to rebuke Marianne Gingrich's claims of Newt's open marriage requests.
Newt Gingrich pulled a Spanish-language radio ad that called Mitt Romney "anti-immigrant" on Wednesday, but what's surprising is not that the ad aired, but that he gave Gingrich so much material to work with.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: Maurice Sendak had some things to say about Newt Gingrich on The Colbert Report, Wilco channels Popeye, and Indianapolis has put up the midwest's coolest zip line for the Super Bowl.
Newt Gingrich is raising some eyebrows for pledging Wednesday: "By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American."
Only one presidential candidate in 2012 truly embodies the spirit of the spirit of the Millennial generation -- and it's not Barack Obama. It's Newt Gingrich.
Univision's Jorge Ramos was particularly effective in getting the Republican presidential candidates to say weird stuff Wednesday, pushing Mitt Romney to say, "I don't think people would think I was being honest with them if I said I was Mexican-American."
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