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Iowa's lesson for NH is to back the strongest candidate
The Manchester Union-Leader doubles down on it's Newt Gingrich endorsement...
The lesson from Iowa? Conservative Republicans and like-minded independents in New Hampshire and elsewhere had better rally around their one strongest candidate or face the very real prospect of having Barack Obama walk all over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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The last squishy-moderate Republican to come to New Hampshire claiming to have the “Big Mo” (for momentum) from Iowa was George H.W. Bush. He and his “mainstream” supporters made fun of Ronald Reagan as too old and too conservative.
Reagan beat Bush. But he might have lost had New Hampshire conservatives not coalesced around him instead of splitting their support among several candidates.
This time, they need to get behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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The last squishy-moderate Republican to come to New Hampshire claiming to have the “Big Mo” (for momentum) from Iowa was George H.W. Bush. He and his “mainstream” supporters made fun of Ronald Reagan as too old and too conservative.
Reagan beat Bush. But he might have lost had New Hampshire conservatives not coalesced around him instead of splitting their support among several candidates.
This time, they need to get behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
