Phil Albinus = father of three, husband, magazine editor, paperback hound, frustrated drummer, and aspiring novelist. I wear khakis - got a problem with that?
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The Gingrich performance on the Yorktown was striking in other ways, too—especially as compared to that of Romney. For one thing, he offered an extended riff about the port of Charleston, his commitment to its modernization, and its pivotal place in the South Carolinian economy. This sort of localized message tailoring has been a consistent feature of Gingrich’s campaigning style and nowhere more so than in South Carolina. It might sound basic, a Politics 101 thing, and that is true. But it is something that Romney rarely does or does effectively.
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A nice one from John Heilemann. This might be one very solid reason that Gingrich is doing well in South Carolina — this along with his contempt for liberals, the media, and his love of knife fights.
