Winning our Future:A Newt Gingrich TL

AStanley · Apr 21, 2012

Winning our Future:A Newt Gingrich TL

POD:Newt Gingrich utilizes negative advertising against Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, instead of convincing himself it will have no effect on the results of the Iowa Caucuses
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Gingrich SuperPac to resume negative ads; Gingrich Poll numbers continuing to decline.
December 18, 2011

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Ron Paul front runner in Iowa; Gingrich continuing to decline.
December 23, 2011

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Romney edges Paul in Iowa right before Caucuses; Support for Santorum increasing, but still trails behind Romney and Ron Paul.
January 2, 2012

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Iowa Caucus Results:
Mitt Romney - 29,755 - 24.48% ✓
Ron Paul - 26,086 - 21.46%
Rick Santorum - 25,739 - 21.18%
Newt Gingrich - 20,113 - 16.65%
Rick Perry - 12,657 - 10.41%
Michele Bachmann - 6,096 - 5.01%
Jon Huntsman, Jr - 739 - 0.61%

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Romney declared winner of Iowa Caucus; Michele Bachmann drops out after abysmal results

mrsandman · Apr 21, 2012

Gah! A Gingrich presidency TL, well this should be....interesting, in the Chinese sense.

AStanley · Apr 21, 2012

mrsandman said:
Gah! A Gingrich presidency TL, well this should be....interesting, in the Chinese sense.

Indeed it will

NickCT · Apr 22, 2012

I'm curious how this leads to a Gingrich win? Maybe he becomes the only conservative who can stop Mitt? Very interesting.

pieman97405 · Apr 22, 2012

The Conservative Fellah said:
I'm curious how this leads to a Gingrich win? Maybe he becomes the only conservative who can stop Mitt? Very interesting.

Mitt or Ron picks him as their VP then die.

IchBinDieKaiser · Apr 22, 2012

My guess is that Santorum drops out earlier, giving the Catholic and Southerner vote to Gingrich.

AStanley · Apr 22, 2012

The Conservative Fellah said:
I'm curious how this leads to a Gingrich win? Maybe he becomes the only conservative who can stop Mitt? Very interesting.

He has less competition from Santorum, who did much worse in Iowa.

Spoiler: Rick Santorum did worse in Iowa, meaning his campaign won't experience a boost in funds and supporters like it did IOTL. He will stay in the race until South Carolina, like Perry, but both will drop out and endorse Gingrich (Perry did IOTL, Santourm refused after he was revealed to be Iowa's winner) , realizing that Gingrich is the only chance to have a Conservative win, for if Romney wins SC, and then most likely Florida, he will have an almost unbeatable momentum.

pieman97405 said:
Mitt or Ron picks him as their VP then die.

This won't happen, considering Romney really does not like Gingrich, and Paul would likely choose another Libertarian.
Gingrich will win on his own in this TL.

IchBinDieKaiser said:
My guess is that Santorum drops out earlier, giving the Catholic and Southerner vote to Gingrich.

Spoiler:Correct

AStanley · Apr 22, 2012

Mitt Romney now national front runner; Leads Paul in New Hampshire polls by 20%
January 7, 2012

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After poor debate performances, Romney's support nationally has waned; New Hampshire is still solidly for Romney.
January 9, 2012

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New Hampshire Primary Results

Mitt Romney - 99,591 - 39.83% ✓
Ron Paul - 58,872 - 23.54%
John Huntsman - 43,164 - 17.26%
Newt Gingrich - 28,232 - 11.29%
Rick Santorum - 13,421 - 5.36%
Rick Perry - 1,764 - .71%

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Romney wins New Hampshire Primaries, expected to grab 7 of New Hampshire's 12 delegates
January 11, 2012

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Jon Huntsman drops out and endorses Romney after third place finish in New Hampshire; Romney picks up Huntsman's 2 delegates
January 15, 2012

Paul V McNutt · Apr 22, 2012

Does Gingrich become the anti Romney? Then beat draw in the OTL Santorium vote to win in Michigan and weaken Romney. It would be great if
Newt won the nomination. I d give him the states that McCain won by 56 % or more. Obama 456 electoral votes to Gingrich 82 electoral votes.

Paul V McNutt · Apr 22, 2012

Sorry I forgot to subscribe.

Paul V McNutt · Apr 22, 2012

Sorry I forgot to subscribe again.

AStanley · Apr 22, 2012

Paul V McNutt said:
Does Gingrich become the anti Romney? Then beat draw in the OTL Santorium vote to win in Michigan and weaken Romney. It would be great if
Newt won the nomination. I d give him the states that McCain won by 56 % or more. Obama 456 electoral votes to Gingrich 82 electoral votes.

I wouldn't say Gingrich would do that bad, depending on the state of the economy, and debate preformances, Gingrich may pick up some states, or even win

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AStanley · Apr 22, 2012

Gingrich gives a strong performance in the Fox News South Carolina debate; Romney losing status as South Carolina front runner.
January 16, 2012

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Rick Perry and Rick Santorum drop out and endorse Newt Gingrich; Gingrich rapidly increases support with another strong debate performance, coupled with endorsements.
January 19, 2012

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South Carolina Primary Results

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

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Newt Gingrich sweeps all of South Carolina's 25 delegates; All attention turns to Florida's Winner-takes-all Primary
January 21, 2012

AStanley · Apr 22, 2012

Does anyone have an idea for a different Ron Paul color? He's results are a little hard to see? Yellow just seems to be associated with Libertarians, and Ron Paul is a Libertarian. Or should I just recolor the result's color and not the maps.

NickCT · Apr 22, 2012

blue, maybe?

Plumber · Apr 22, 2012

AStanley said:
Does anyone have an idea for a different Ron Paul color? He's results are a little hard to see? Yellow just seems to be associated with Libertarians, and Ron Paul is a Libertarian.

Orange. Romney should be blue I think.

King Nazar · Apr 22, 2012

Interesting TL. Subscribed

AStanley · Apr 22, 2012

King Nazar said:
Interesting TL. Subscribed

Thank you.

Plumber said:
Orange. Romney should be blue I think.

The Conservative Fellah said:
blue, maybe?

I just realized, instead of redoing the maps, should I just change Ron Paul's results color to a darker yellow?

Which of these looks better?

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

or

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

or

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

or

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

Alternatehistoryguy47 · Apr 22, 2012

AStanley said:
Thank you.

I just realized, instead of redoing the maps, should I just change Ron Paul's results color to a darker yellow?

Which of these looks better?

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

or

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

or

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

or

Newt Gingrich - 342,540 - 57.09% ✓
Mitt Romney - 166,623 - 27.63%
Ron Paul - 79,860 - 13.24%

I think you should make Romney red and Paul orange. Everything except light green is hard to see.

AStanley · Apr 22, 2012

kevvy2010 said:
I think you should make Romney red and Paul orange. Everything except light green is hard to see.

I think I will choose this, as it looks the nicest on the map

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Here is a map of overall Primary situation thus far.