With all the polls coming out recently re the all (too) important first vote of the year, next Tuesday's Iowa Caucuses, one thing is certain. The relentless television ad campaigns waged by Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Ron Paul (or their surrogates, now known as Super PACS) have eroded the momentum that Newt Gingrich was feeling in the Hawkeye State as recently as two weeks ago.
The pro-Romney group Restore Our Future has spent nearly $2.7 million in ads in Iowa hammering away at Gingrich in ads like this one:
This article appears in Dec 22-28, 2011.