Everyone's laughing at Newt Gingrich because he made a video saying he and his staff had puzzled for weeks that we don't have a new word for cell phones that do the Internet.
Newt Gingrich says he never did any lobbying for Freddie Mac, and, as proof, he pointed out in Monday's debate that he spoke to a lobbying expert who explained exactly how he could walk up to the line without crossing it.
Nancy Pelosi, not for the first time, alluded to dirt she has on Newt Gingrich during an interview with CNN's John King Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Gingrich sounded really annoyed about it.
Cartoonist Steve Breen weighs in on Obama's GOP pick.
Winning Our Future, Newt Gingrich's Super PAC, will spend a whopping $6 million on ads in Florida ahead of the primary to highlight Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care law.
Sure, Mitt Romney has the most endorsements of Republican elected officials, but he's in a heated competition with Newt Gingrich for the endorsements that really matter: Famous people.
Romney's unfavorability rating has jumped sharply in January -- and among independents, it's now 51 percent. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The audiences are simultaneously one of the worst and most entertaining parts of the endless GOP debates, so we really don't want them to be silent.
Mitt Romney finally did what conservatives were begging him to do -- he aggressively attacked the surging Gingrich in Monday's debate. But it wasn't enough to get rid of a sense of dread in the GOP: now Newt Gingrich may be the nominee.
Last month, The Washington Post editorial page raised a few eyebrows when four columnists wrote harsh critiques of Newt Gingrich in a single day, making for, in the words of Ben Smith "the maximum Newt hate a newspaper can fit into a single page." Well, in Tuesday's paper, the Post has done it again!
Mitt Romney's latest attack on Newt Gingrich's time as an historian for Freddie Mac would be more effective if it didn't remind us that Romney could easily pay the $1.6 million 'reward' he's playfully putting up to learn more about his opponent's old job .
Also: An update on Tracy Morgan's Sundance collapse, Eric Holder had to see Red Tails like a regular paying customer, and Angelina Jolie was very mean to George Clooney's new girlfriend.
Just in time for his State of The Union address, the latest ABC News/Washington Post Poll shows that President Obama has garnered a 53 percent favorability rating--much higher than Republican opponents and his highest since April 2010.
Mitt Romney got under Newt Gingrich's skin over his lucrative "historian" work, but Romney also coined an odd word -- "self-deportation" -- and bragged for the second time about forcing Ted Kennedy to take out a mortgage.
With recent national polls showing Newt Gingrich catching up with the Republican frontrunner, Mitt Romney is opening a new round of attacks which use what's known about Newt's skeletons -- mostly from his post-Congress career as a pseudo-lobbyist -- to make people afraid of what else is out there.
Mitt Romney sells himself as an expert in crisis management -- he turned around the 2002 Olympics -- and now he has to prove it by managing the crisis that is Newt Gingrich.
After giving ABC a miss on the Sunday talk shows after his South Carolina victory, Newt Gingrich appeared on Good Morning America Monday and said he wanted to release his lobbying contract with Freddie Mac.
As Republican voters hit the polls for the Republican presidential primary, we consider the latest acerbic aside from Newt Gingrich, which seems awfully close to outright racism.
Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are giving Mitt Romney — Mr. Inevitability to you — fits in the south. A win for anyone but Romney could open the Republican race back up.
Oh, sure, you might think the obvious presidential candidate for Chuck Norris to endorse would be Rick Perry, what with his guns and boots and Texasyness, not to mention his own Chuck Norris Facts-inspired twitterer, RickPerryFacts. But you would be wrong.
In something of an exit interview with The New York Times Magazine, retiring Congressman Barney Frank took the opportunity to score one last dig against Newt Gingrich, bookending their drawn out match of verbal fisticuffs.
Only a week ago, it looked like Mitt Romney might make history by winning Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, which no candidate had ever done before. But now it looks like a different candidate will win each of the first three nomination contests, which has never happened before, either.
In South Carolina, "Fighting over politics is sport," the New York Times reports today, but it's not a very popular sport.
Mitt Romney can't out-perform Newt Gingrich in the Republican primary debates because only Gingrich actually believes in what he's saying, at least at the moment he's saying it.
Former Speaker of the House and current Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich released his tax return during last night's debate, proving he's an excellent multi-tasker and isn't afraid to show that he paid just under $1 million in taxes and around $20,000 in alimony for 2010.
The four remaining candidates are getting together for the second Republican primary debate this week, and there is so much to talk about, like Mitt Romney's offshore accounts and Newt Gingrich's still-not-over-it ex-wife.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Newt Gingrich's political carrer was brought back from the dead in May, killed in June, resurrected again in November, killed again in January, and reanimated again Thursday, according to three of the six new polls of the South Carolina primary.
On the very day that the hottest Republican presidential candidate of all time drops out of the race, the candidate... with the largest cranium of all time is revealed to have asked his wife for an open marriage.
ABC News reportedly plans to air a "potentially explosive" interview with Newt Gingrich's second ex-wife Marianne, just two days before the South Carolina primary and hours after tonight's CNN debate.
Newt Gingrich's "suicidal" "kamikaze" "jihad" against Mitt Romney looks like it wasn't so suicidal after all: Romney's lead in South Carolina has shrunk by half. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Newt Gingrich imagines the 2012 presidential debates will be like high school prom -- the kind where pig's blood is dumped on the prom queen: if Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee, "Obama's going to laugh at him," Gingrich told ABC News this month.
Twitter tells us that Newt Gingrich just revealed that he'd offer Sarah Palin a job in his administration, should he win the Republican nomination and then get elected president.
Of course Mitt Romney's rivals for the Republican nomination want to take advantage of Romney's tendency to remind voters of things they hate about rich people -- like his confession that he pays 15 percent of his income in taxes -- but the platforms they're running on call for even lower taxes for people like Romney.
When asked by Sean Hannity on Fox News if she was ready to make an endorsement, Sarah Palin said, "If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I would vote for Newt."
Newt Gingrich's Southern supporters are switching sides to Mitt Romney, new polls show. Even those who loved Newt best -- old people -- are now leaning toward Romney, who is crushing the other candidates nationally. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Newt Gingrich hasn't backed off his attacks on Mitt Romney's business record despite condemnation from just about every Republican who's ever been elected to anything, and maybe that's because he knows what a new Washington Post poll shows: they're working.
Mitt Romney took the brunt of the attacks in last night's first South Carolina debate, with all the other remaining candidates looking to bring the front-runner back to the pack.
South Carolina ads target his time at Bain and as Massachusetts governor.
The direct order Newt Gingrich gave to a pro-Gingrich super PAC to alter its anti-Mitt Romney ads raises an immediate question: Isn't it illegal for candidates to coordinate with their super PACs?
In our guide to the day's polls and why they matter, it's a tired trope to complain that most Americans don't know anything about anything, but a new survey shows while most voters don't know much about the Republican candidates , it's women voters who are distinctly clueless.
Seemingly succumbing to the various fellow GOPers pressuring him to stop bashing financial professionals like Romney, Newt Gingrich is walking back the attack ads against Mitt that his campaign his super PAC is running.
Proving that politicians attempting to speak a foreign language will never not be funny, a new Twitter account parodying Mitt Romney's French skills follows up on Newt Gingrich's bizarrely off-topic attack ad on his Francophone rival.
Mitt Romney is trying to turn a weakness -- that people got fired when his Bain Capitol took over companies -- into a strength by saying he rescued household brands everybody knows and loves.
Newt Gingrich's attack ads are growing increasingly strange (and desperate) as a new YouTube ad compares Mitt Romney to John Kerry — specifically his ability to decode the crazy language of French people.
It's odd David Axelrod is so excited to see the attacks on Mitt Romney's business career in the Republican primary, considering that four years ago, the early airing of another emotional issue in the primaries was expected to stop Axelrod's own candidate, Barack Obama.
Before the holidays New York Times columnist Gail Collins defiantly noted that she wouldn't stop mentioning the time Romney made his dog ride to Canada on the roof of the family car no matter what her critics said, but since then we fear "crate-gate" has gone and jumped the shark.
Newt Gingrich agreed he's misfired with his criticism of Mitt Romney's business record, telling a South Carolina voter it's "impossible" to talk about Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capitol with President Obama in the White House.
Romney is the first Republican candidate who's not a sitting president to win both Iowa and New Hampshire; still, all his rivals promise to keep campaigning.
Newt Gingrich has taken every position possible on the issue of negative ads.
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