{"id":1403,"date":"2011-11-11T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2011-11-11T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:37:18","slug":"gingrich-moves-into-top-tier-of-gop-2012-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/gingrich-moves-into-top-tier-of-gop-2012-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich Moves Into Top Tier of GOP 2012 Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/11\/11\/gingrich-moves-into-top-tier-gop-candidates-polls-show\/\">From Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"container\">\n<div id=\"centered\">\n<div id=\"article\">\n<div>\n<h1><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"new gingrich\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a57.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Politics\/396\/223\/gingrich_newt_111011.jpg?resize=396%2C223\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/newt-gingrich.htm#r_src=ramp\">Newt Gingrich<\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"> has moved into the top tier of Republican presidential candidates, according to two national polls released Friday. <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The rise of the ex-House speaker comes as other candidates in the race encounter hurdles. Businessman<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/herman-cain.htm#r_src=ramp\">Herman Cain<\/a> spent the last two weeks fending off sexual harassment allegations. Texas Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/rick-perry.htm#r_src=ramp\">Rick Perry<\/a> capped off a string of shaky debate performances with an awkward moment Wednesday when he couldn&#8217;t remember the three Cabinet departments he wants to eliminate.<\/p>\n<p>The new polls continue to show Cain and former Massachusetts Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/mitt-romney.htm#r_src=ramp\">Mitt Romney<\/a> at the top. But Gingrich has carved out a space right alongside them.<\/p>\n<p>A McClatchy-Marist poll showed Romney leading with 23 percent, and Gingrich close behind with 19 percent. Cain was trailing slightly with 17 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A CBS News poll also released Friday showed Cain leading with 18 percent &#8212; Romney and Gingrich were close behind with 15 percent each.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts for weeks have been suggesting that Gingrich could be primed for a surge. Romney has remained in the top tier in national surveys for months, while other candidates have quickly faded in the polls after enjoying an initial popularity burst.<\/p>\n<p>In debates, Gingrich has tried to stay above the fray, mostly resisting opportunities to attack his fellow Republicans and saving his criticism for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/obama-administration\/barack-obama.htm#r_src=ramp\">President Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both national polls were conducted after the allegations against Cain broke.<\/p>\n<p>The CBS poll of 382 GOP primary voters was taken Nov. 6-10. It had a margin of error of 5 percentage points. The McClatchy poll of 347 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents was taken Nov. 8-10. The margin of error was 5.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News Newt Gingrich has moved into the top tier of Republican presidential candidates, according to two national polls released Friday. The rise of the ex-House speaker comes as other candidates in the race&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[12,232,7],"tags":[622,2114,2118,242,626,167,2115,2117,93,2109,89,2111,2110,4,2112,1908,94,2116,2113],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}