This article was originally published in The Atlantic.
By all accounts, Newt Gingrich is about to get pummeled in New Hampshire, after just getting pummeled in Iowa. The former Speaker, once flying high as the national GOP front-runner, was brought low with a disappointing fourth place finish in Iowa. With John Huntsman and Ron Paul duking it out for the second and third place finishes, he'll likely also place fourth in New Hampshire, in large part due to a barrage of Mitt Romney SuperPAC funded ads.
