{"id":13053,"date":"2016-02-20T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13053"},"modified":"2016-02-20T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T14:09:06","slug":"president-gingrich-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13053","title":{"rendered":"President Gingrich, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1407859219000-Election-3-.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12907\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1407859219000-Election-3--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1407859219000-Election-3-\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1407859219000-Election-3--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1407859219000-Election-3-.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How decisive will the South Carolina Republican primary be after the votes are counted?<\/p>\n<p>That remains a matter of considerable discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is the frontrunner. The fight now is for second place.<\/p>\n<p>But consider what transpired there four years ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>Newt Gingrich<\/em> won the state&#8217;s primary, which when you look back shouldn&#8217;t have been a huge surprise. The former U.S. House of Reps speaker hails from next-door Georgia. He was more or less a &#8220;favorite son&#8221; candidate of GOP voters. He then promptly flamed out.<\/p>\n<p>The same theory perhaps applies to Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; blowout win in the New Hampshire Democratic primary just a while ago. He represents neighboring Vermont in the U.S. Senate. Familiarity didn&#8217;t breed contempt there, either.<\/p>\n<p>This process remains in its early stages.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican field has been winnowed considerably from that massive horde of contenders\/pretenders that began the race.<\/p>\n<p>For my money, though, the serious test will occur on March 1 when Texas joins several other states in that big Super Tuesday primary.<\/p>\n<p>Then we&#8217;ll see who&#8217;s got the chops to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How decisive will the South Carolina Republican primary be after the votes are counted? That remains a matter of considerable discussion. Donald J. Trump is the frontrunner. The fight now is for second place. But consider what transpired there four years ago. Newt Gingrich won the state&#8217;s primary, which when you look back shouldn&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Gingrich, anyone?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[597,1424,1944,3299,5956],"class_list":["post-13053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-campaign","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-sc-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13054,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13053\/revisions\/13054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}