sábado, 31 de diciembre de 2011

Newsmax compra 30 minutos para Gingrich en la tv de Iowa



The New York Times:
His cash-short campaign unable to buy much advertising of its own, Newt Gingrich’s well-financed allies are coming to his rescue in Iowa, securing large chunks of airtime across the state.

Newsmax, the conservative magazine and Web site, will show a 30-minute special on Mr. Gingrich throughout the weekend in all of Iowa’s major television markets. The program is hosted by Michael Reagan, son of the former president, and makes the case that Mr. Gingrich is the strongest candidate to carry forward Ronald Reagan’s legacy.

“Millions of dollars in negative ads have been spent against him,” Mr. Reagan says. “But let’s discuss the real Newt Gingrich.” Soft music then starts to play and the camera cuts to a black and white photograph of Mr. Gingrich as a boy.

A second major player in conservative circles, Liberty University, the evangelical institution founded by Jerry Falwell, is also giving Mr. Gingrich some help in Iowa, running 30-second commercials in which Mr. Gingrich extols the virtues of a Liberty education.

(...) Christopher Ruddy, Newsmax Media’s chief executive, said he was inclined to feature Mr. Gingrich in the program because the former speaker was one of only two candidates who agreed to participate in the debate Newsmax planned to host with Donald J. Trump. Mr. Trump pulled out of the debate, and Newsmax canceled it after most of the candidates balked.

“We’re very supportive of Newt,” Mr. Ruddy said Friday. “Newt never asked it, nor did we ever have to do it. But we do feel that Newt really is the conservative standard-bearer right now.”

Mr. Ruddy said the special would run 200 times over the weekend in all of the state’s major media markets, including on stations in Omaha and South Dakota that reach into parts of Iowa.

Newsmax and Mr. Ruddy have soured on Mitt Romney after endorsing him in 2008, when it called him “the Reagan candidate” on its cover.

Mr. Ruddy’s feelings now? He said Mr. Romney has been too dismissive of Newsmax, whereas Mr. Gingrich has not. “So we have a comfort level with Newt. Woody Allen says 85 percent of success in life is just showing up. Well, Newt shows up.”

2 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

¿Cuales crees que serán los primeros candidatos en retirarse tras Iowa? ¿Si queda en mala posición puede irse Gingrich o seguirá algún estado más?

Antxon G. dijo...

Gingrich contempla quedar cuarto en Iowa. Cree que aún tendría posibilidades en Carolina del Sur.

Ahora pondré un memo que anda distribuyendo en Carolina del Sur.

Es difícil saber quién se retirará porque ahora mismo es difícil saber el resultado. La semana que viene vuelven los debates antes de NH hay dos debates en dos días seguidos, después antes de SC hay también debates. Eso puede disuadir a algunos candidatos de retirarse porque un debate son varios minutos de tv gratis. Así que es probable que no veamos demasiadas retiradas antes de Carolina del Sur.

En caso de que haya alguna retirada, pues bachmann si queda en los últimos lugares en Iowa, o Perry si lo hace muy mal por ser un candidato que tiene demasiado nombre (un gobernador de un gran estado) para andar arrastrándose por ahí. Huntsman si fracasa en NH. No sé.

Gingrich no creo porque es difícil cambiar el chip y pasar tna de repente de competir por ganar a retirarse al primer mal resultado.