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Weird
Race
Fridays
with Erick Erickson
01.20.12
Editor:
By
the time you read this the votes have been counted with Gingrich
winning South
Carolina, but Erickson’s points are still worth noting.
What a
weird race.
Rick Santorum
is now the winner in Iowa by 34 votes. But eight precincts cannot now
show us
their votes.
Mitt Romney
won New Hampshire.
Last night
at the CNN debate, it would not surprise me if Newt Gingrich locked in
a win in
South Carolina. John King, the CNN debate moderator, was in an
impossible
situation. He had to ask the question. It was legitimate news. If he
had asked
it at the end, he would have been accused of stringing everybody along
for
ratings. He asked it at the beginning.
And in
asking it at the beginning, and in giving Gingrich no real time
restriction to
follow in answering the question, King let Gingrich off to a strong
start,
hitting the question out of the park, winning the debate on question
one.
Other than
Rick Perry dropping out, it was the story of the day.
There were
two questions last night that the news has focused on all week.
Gingrich’s
marriage and Romney’s taxes. Gingrich got a standing ovation. Romney,
for the
second time this week, flubbed his answer and the crowd jeered.
We may be
on the verge of something we haven’t seen in Republican politics in
quite a
while: A three way split in the first three contests. This has turned
into one
wild political ride.
—Erick
Erickson
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