Newt Gingrich: Newt Gingrich, rising in polls, isn't at all surprised

With Newt Gingrich now the Republican frontrunner, Rachel Maddow took the opportunity to revisit his campaign and see what has changed since his campaign staffers resigned en masse last July. Maddow found that not allWEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Newt Gingrich is a major player in the GOP presidential contest again, and he's using that platform to position himself as the biggest critic of the congressional debt-reduction “supercommittee.” Gingrich, who placed secondNow that Gingrich has

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