"There is an unmistakable theme of departure and return in his campaign as well, because just about everyone had written him off as irrelevant by Labor Day. Gingrich sounds rueful when he thinks back to the pounding he took during his first week as a candidate, when he got into trouble with conservatives for criticizing the entitlement-reform plan offered by his friend Paul Ryan. “It was the excuse to go after me,” he told me. “So everybody said, ‘Oh, good, he’s bleeding, let’s see if we can’t kill him.’ And that’s what was the real revelation to me, is that people I really thought were personal friends all cheerfully engaged in the lynching. And a lot of them of course now have a vested interest in my not winning, because of how silly they’ll all look.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/newt-gingrich-glory-days.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp&adxnnlx=1325189041-tg7Q3/vMVP19NjfZCJDQPw --- from this Sunday's NYT magazine
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2011/InsiderAdv_Iowa_1229.pdf
Looks like it is Gingrich surging in Iowa now.
Mittens 17
Gingrich 16.7