A furious and sustained barrage of criticism aimed at Newt Gingrich appears to be reshaping the volatile Republican nomination contest once again with just two weeks left before voters begin weighing in.
Attack ads are blanketing Iowa, fueled by millions of dollars from his rivals and a group supporting Mitt Romney. Mailboxes are filling up with anti-Gingrich leaflets. And on the stump, his rivals have stepped up their assault on Gingrich's time in Congress and his commitment to conservative causes.
Gingrich, the former House speaker, emerged in early December with a strong lead in some national polls and with commanding leads in Iowa and South Carolina. But new surveys suggest that political gravity could be dragging him down, opening the race up again and highlighting once more the fickle search among conservatives for an alternative to Romney.
“It's definitely a full frontal assault,” said John Stineman, a Republican strategist who managed the 2000 presidential campaign of Steve Forbes in Iowa.
He said the criticism of Gingrich has been impossible to avoid in Iowa.
“The fact is, he's getting killed,” he said.
For most of December, Gingrich has refused to push back aggressively against the attacks, promising a positive approach and pursuing a relatively limited schedule of traditional campaigning. He spent last weekend largely off the trail, attending a concert in Virginia where his wife, Callista, played the French horn.
But in an appearance in Iowa on Monday, Gingrich assailed what he called “reprehensible behavior” from his rivals and pledged to respond with “the best ideas” during a bus tour in Iowa starting shortly after Christmas. His campaign also purchased an additional $250,000 worth of time for commercials in Iowa.
“The only person who profits from Republican ads attacking other Republicans is Barack Obama, and I think that's pretty reprehensible behavior from the point of some of the candidates,” Gingrich said in Davenport, Iowa.
A daily tracking poll by Gallup released Monday showed that Gingrich's lead has all but evaporated, leaving him in a dead heat with Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.
A new survey by CNN also showed the race tied nationally. And an automated poll of Iowa voters showed an even steeper drop for Gingrich, although many news organizations have reservations about its methodology.
His decline highlighted the unsettled nature of a contest in which many Republican voters say they are still open minded about whom they will vote for; a New York Times/CBS News poll this month found that two-thirds of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa were still willing to change their minds.
On Monday, Sarah Palin said on Fox Business Network that “it's not too late” for her to jump into the Republican contest.
Steve Grubbs, a veteran Iowa Republican who helped run Herman Cain's campaign in the state, said Gingrich must find a way to respond to what he called the “sheer volume of negative mail and the magnitude of negative ads.
“Gingrich has to either make some new strategic decisions and restore faith in Republicans that he is electable next fall,” Grubbs said, “or be satisfied being an intellectual voice adding to the debate.”
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A furious and sustained barrage of criticism aimed at Newt Gingrich appears to be reshaping the volatile Republican nomination contest once again with just two weeks left before voters begin weighing in.
Attack ads are blanketing Iowa, fueled by millions of dollars from his rivals and a group supporting Mitt Romney. Mailboxes are filling up with anti-Gingrich leaflets. And on the stump, his rivals have stepped up their assault on Gingrich's time in Congress and his commitment to conservative causes.
Gingrich, the former House speaker, emerged in early December with a strong lead in some national polls and with commanding leads in Iowa and South Carolina. But new surveys suggest that political gravity could be dragging him down, opening the race up again and highlighting once more the fickle search among conservatives for an alternative to Romney.
“It's definitely a full frontal assault,” said John Stineman, a Republican strategist who managed the 2000 presidential campaign of Steve Forbes in Iowa.
He said the criticism of Gingrich has been impossible to avoid in Iowa.
“The fact is, he's getting killed,” he said.
For most of December, Gingrich has refused to push back aggressively against the attacks, promising a positive approach and pursuing a relatively limited schedule of traditional campaigning. He spent last weekend largely off the trail, attending a concert in Virginia where his wife, Callista, played the French horn.
But in an appearance in Iowa on Monday, Gingrich assailed what he called “reprehensible behavior” from his rivals and pledged to respond with “the best ideas” during a bus tour in Iowa starting shortly after Christmas. His campaign also purchased an additional $250,000 worth of time for commercials in Iowa.
“The only person who profits from Republican ads attacking other Republicans is Barack Obama, and I think that's pretty reprehensible behavior from the point of some of the candidates,” Gingrich said in Davenport, Iowa.
A daily tracking poll by Gallup released Monday showed that Gingrich's lead has all but evaporated, leaving him in a dead heat with Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.
A new survey by CNN also showed the race tied nationally. And an automated poll of Iowa voters showed an even steeper drop for Gingrich, although many news organizations have reservations about its methodology.
His decline highlighted the unsettled nature of a contest in which many Republican voters say they are still open minded about whom they will vote for; a New York Times/CBS News poll this month found that two-thirds of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa were still willing to change their minds.
On Monday, Sarah Palin said on Fox Business Network that “it's not too late” for her to jump into the Republican contest.
Steve Grubbs, a veteran Iowa Republican who helped run Herman Cain's campaign in the state, said Gingrich must find a way to respond to what he called the “sheer volume of negative mail and the magnitude of negative ads.
“Gingrich has to either make some new strategic decisions and restore faith in Republicans that he is electable next fall,” Grubbs said, “or be satisfied being an intellectual voice adding to the debate.”
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