In this article, it mainly discusses Republican Newt Gingrich's new plan to "attack the South," as he tries to carry the momentum he obtained from winning Georgia into Alabama and Kansas. Gingrich, who had not won a state since his early win in the South Carolina primary, is at a standoff with other the two other Republican front-runners, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Gingrich's plan to take the South will seem to evidently fail as Santorum took Oklahoma and left Gingrich with a small percent in both Oklahoma and in Tennessee. More importantly, this article sheds more light into the heavy split of the Republican party at the moment--where no single candidate has been the clear front runner for the Presidential nomination against President Obama. These delegates spend more time bashing and attempting to hurt one another's campaign to gain support, rather than cater to what the people of this country want. Towards the end of the article, Gingrich is quoted as saying how "wall street money," referring to Mitt Romney's wealthy supporters, undermined his early surge in the race with negative campaigns. This furthermore evidently depicts how split the Republican party is at the moment--so split that there is no clear choice for a Republican nominee for the fall race. Thereby, undermining our political system by taking our two separate parties and splitting them into parties within parties; therefore, creating a political system that does not represent the majority like Madison wrote our country should always aim to do.
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--Sean Ramras
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 10:03PM