December 24, 2011
Article by Robin Abcarian
The Iowa caucus is right around the corner and many of the candidates, especially Newt Gingrich, have been making their final effort before the caucus on January 3rd. Casual interviews with voters around Des Moines, Iowa are showing that the people of Iowa like Gingrich's ideas. They like his credentials and the amount of experience he's had but they feel he's too arrogant for The White House. This arrogance may lead voters to support another candidate, like Michelle Bachmann. When Gingrich was a house speaker in the '90s, he felt insulted by his seat on an Air Force One flight and engineered a government shutdown in part because of it. He has earned the title of "The GOP's deepest thinker" from many. He shouts out his ideas the way others do talking points. In one debate, Gingrich said that federal judges were "grotesquely dictatorial" and should appear in front of Congress. If they decline to appear, they should be rounded up by federal marshals. He gained a lead in the polls when Herman Cain dropped out of the GOP race because of sexual harassment allegations.
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