Date: January 19, 2012
Author: Ewen MacAskill
Topic: South Carolina
Source: The Guardian: U.S. Edition http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/rick-perry-quits-republican-race
Several developments today in the race the Republican presidential nominee, may have changed the entire course of the race, and, mostly to the detriment of Mitt Romney. With Newt Gingrich already trailing on Romney's footsteps (probably due to a bad Romney performance in the debate), it came only as bad news that, after an Iowa recount, Rick Santorum actually won the Iowa Caucus! To make matters worse for Romney, Rick Perry dropped out of the race today, narrowing the field of candidates immensely AND endorsing that pesky Gingrich. Romney has also come under fire because it is suspected that he sent some of his money to the Cayman Islands, where he could avoid paying taxes on it. Not looking too good, flipflopRomney.
But, it's not all smooth sailing for Gingrich either. In an interview on ABC today, his ex-wife Marianne Gingrich discussed Gingrich's plea to have an "open marriage" with his current wife Callista Bisek. As Perry said in his exit speech, "Newt is not perfect, but who among us is?" I only hope, or err don't hope that those evangelical and fundamentalist Christians can see beyond his polyamorous ways...If Newt manages to win on Saturday, Romney, the so-called undisputed front runner, won't be such a front runner after all. He'll actually have won only one of the first three states, not three. Yay volatility!
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