The president couldn’t have asked for superior results in South Carolina. Currently Romney will be dragged through even more mud-or, better yet, lose to the Gingrich. Andrew Romano notes.
So as to now-well-known video from the Apollo Theater President Obama is crooning “Let’s Stay Together” to Al Green, the soul legend who firstly recorded it.
But he might as well have been singing to the Republican Party.
By awarding Newt Gingrich a double-digit victory over Mitt Romney in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, the GOP has done a remarkable thing: it has proven that Obama, one of the most vulnerable incumbents in recent memory, is even luckier than anyone previously imagined. And he was known for being pretty lucky already.
With 93% of South Carolina’s precincts reporting, Gingrich had captured 40 per cent of the vote compared to 27 percent for Romney.
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum was headed for a third-place finish with 17 percent and Texas congressman Ron Paul had 13%.
While Romney seems newly vulnerable after South Carolina polls, Gingrich need only to look back at the first two contests in Iowa and New Hampshire to be reminded how fragile the momentum has been for the top Republican finishers.
