Newt Gingrich bets on Alzheimer’s, other niche issues as key to a 2012 comeback

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Newt Gingrich thinks he can revive his debilitated campaign by talking about Alzheimer’s. So at a private fundraiser last week in Newport Beach, Calif., he devoted much of his speech to the disease.

In the audience, it turned out, were four members of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Orange County chapter.

“This is great,” they later told Gingrich, according to an aide. “You get it!”

And with that, the former House speaker — whose campaign has seemed all but dead since his top advisers quit en masse three weeks ago — had won four new supporters.

For most presidential candidates, Alzheimer’s is a third- or fourth-tier subject, at best.

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/newt-gingrich-bets-on-alzheimers-as-key-to-a-2012-comeback/2011/06/29/AGR0JawH_singlePage.html

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1. Weird.

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2. Alzhiemer's? He's finally admitting that he has it?

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