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Q: WASHINGTON — The Republican presidential race is being shaken up again, with Mitt Romney retaking the lead, Newt Gingrich surging into second place, and Herman Cain dropping to third place, according to a new McClatchy-Marist nationwide poll released Friday. 
  
 The poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents signaled that Romney retains his steady if uncommanding position and that, in the quest by most Republicans for an alternative, theyve cooled on Cain and are turning to Gingrich. It's the first national survey taken entirely since the allegations of sexual harassment against Cain erupted into a full political firestorm this week. 
  
 Clearly this race has taken yet another dramatic turn. The top tier has gotten more crowded, said Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in New York, which conducted the poll. 
  
 Romney is still where hes been. Its fair to say this is a battle for the anybody-but-Romney candidate," Miringoff said. "Gingrich has now begun his 15 days of fame. Whether he is able to maintain that, as others have fallen, is the question. He may be the only one standing when this is all said and done. 
  
 The breakdown of the poll: 
  
 — Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, 23 percent; 
  
 — Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, 19 percent; 
  
 — Cain, the former restaurant executive, 17 percent; 
  
 — Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, 10 percent; 
  
 — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, 8 percent; 
  
 — Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, 5 percent; 
  
 — Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, 1 percent; 
  
 — Former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah, 1 percent; 
  
 — Undecided, 17 percent. 
  
 The survey of 347 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents was conducted Tuesday-Thursday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points. 
  
 The Cain controversy rose to a new level of intensity starting Monday when a woman, Sharon Bialek, put her name and face behind charges that Cain had made an aggressive sexual advance against her in 1997. The poll suggested support sinking for Cain since then, as a second of four women accusing Cain of inappropriate behavior went public, and Cain gave a highly publicized news conference Tuesday denying the charges. 
  
 Asked what they thought about the accusations, 11 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents said they thought Cain did something illegal, 34 percent said he did something wrong but not illegal, 29 percent said he did nothing wrong, and 26 percent were unsure. 
  
 Asked what they thought motivated the revelation of the accusations, 48 percent said it was to ruin Cains reputation, 28 percent said it was based on facts, and 24 percent were unsure. 
  
 But 69 percent said he should not quit the campaign, while only 22 percent said he should. Another 9 percent were unsure. 
  
 Cains support had shot from single digits in national polls as late as Labor Day to an average of 23 percent in recent polls compiled by the website RealClearPolitics. Hed been neck and neck atop the contest with Romney for a month, but the sexual harassment controversy appears to be taking a toll. 
  
 His momentum is stalled, Miringoff said. But there is no great urgency on part of Republicans to have him leave the race. 
  
 Among the top tier, Gingrich has the most committed supporters. The poll found that 43 percent of his supporters said they are firmly committed to his candidacy. For Romney, that figure is 30 percent. For Cain, it is 31 percent. 
  
 Gingrichs support stands out even more given that overall, just 30 percent of those supporting a candidate say they are firmly committed. Thats the same as it was in September, and it suggests that voters could swing before the voting starts in Iowa on Jan. 3. 
  
 Theyre no more firmly committed to the overall field than they were in September, Miringoff said. We should have seen people feeling a greater sense of conviction. Its not moving. 
  
 Asked to rank what theyre looking for in a candidate, 33 percent said someone who shares their values; 27 percent said experience; 23 percent said someone who agrees with them on issues; and 13 percent said electability. 
  
 Of those looking first for values, 22 percent supported Romney and 21 percent supported Cain, the top two choices. 
  
 Of those basing their choice primarily on issues, 28 percent went for Romney and 21 percent to Gingrich. 
  
 Of those looking first for experience, 25 percent went to Gingrich and 20 percent supported Romney. 
  
 For electability, 26 percent went to Romney and 23 percent to Gingrich. ON THE WEB 
  
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 For more McClatchy politics coverage visit Planet Washington ||||| MANCHESTER, N.H. — Newt Gingrich got his meltdown out of the way early. Last spring he endured a series of setbacks, culminating with the resignations of nearly his entire campaign staff, a fund-raising drought and a descent into margin-of-error territory in the polls. 
  
 But now, with nearly all the Republican presidential candidates having seen their hopes of emerging as the alternative to Mitt Romney rise and plummet, Mr. Gingrich is getting another shot, if only by default. A CBS News poll out Friday has him running near the front of the fractured pack, alongside Mr. Romney and not far behind Herman Cain. 
  
 He has cheered many conservatives with his combative debate performances and disdain for the news media. 
  
 He is suddenly pulling in money — “more on Wednesday than in all of July,” he said in an interview — which has allowed him to open a state headquarters here in New Hampshire, with six paid staff members. He is promising to campaign hard in Iowa, whose caucuses kick off the voting season on Jan. 3. 
  
 Asked by a supporter on Friday during the office’s opening whom he would pick for his cabinet, Mr. Gingrich said with a laugh: “I’ve gone from being dead in June to being asked who will be in my cabinet. I think that’s real progress.” 
  
 While his campaign still feels intended as much to promote his ideas and media projects — his schedule the next two weeks is heavy with screenings of his documentary films and signings for a children’s book written by his wife, Callista — his supporters say he is as credible a challenger to President Obama as Mr. Romney, and more so than any of the other Republicans in the race. 
  
 Mr. Romney was the only rival Mr. Gingrich mentioned to the 100 or so supporters who squeezed into the storefront headquarters; he condemned him with the faint praise of being “a good manager.” 
  
 “If you want to manage Washington, he’d be a pretty good candidate,” Mr. Gingrich said. “But if you want to fundamentally, profoundly change Washington, I think that’s a different job.” 
  
 Mr. Gingrich still has substantial organizational and political challenges to overcome, starting with doubts about him among some social conservatives, who take a dim view of his two divorces. But he also has to confront his own history of undercutting himself, going back to the days when, as House speaker in the 1990s, he lost high-profile showdowns with President Bill Clinton, and then his job. Earlier this year, his campaign stumbled badly in the wake of his handling of disclosures that he had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on jewelry for his wife at Tiffany. 
  
 He lost 15 or so aides who resigned en masse in June, complaining that Mr. Gingrich would rather cruise in the Greek isles with his wife than stump hard in Iowa and other early states. He plummeted in the polls and ended September with just $350,000 in his campaign account. 
  
 Today he regards that all as a temporary setback that opened “a vacuum” in the race that allowed other candidates to “audition” for the role of front-runner. Now, he says, he has caught up where he would have been all along. 
  
 “We went through almost two months of really hard survival in June and July,” he said in an interview. “You could see the DNA of my style of campaigning falling into place, which is very solutions-oriented, substance-oriented. It’s building momentum.” 
  
 There is also a caustic side of his personality that emerges when he is challenged. To some of his critics, he can sound mean. 
  
 “Newt has an authoritative assertiveness that can be off-putting,” said Rick Tyler, who was a close aide to Mr. Gingrich for a dozen years and still regards him highly. “He doesn’t suffer fools. He makes people look bad. He knows exactly how to do it, and he’s very good at it. It’s probably been part of his success, and he doesn’t give it up easily. He can really make someone look small and foolish. But he’s not trying to be mean.” |||||
A: 
Is Newt Gingrich finally winning over the GOP base, or is he just the latest not-Mitt-Romney? Despite early gaffes (big debts at Tiffany's, paid-for Twitter followers) that sent his support plummeting, created money problems, and caused staff members to resign en masse, Gingrich has not only stuck around but now is polling around Herman Cain and Romney, reports the New York Times. In fact, a McClatchy-Marist poll released yesterday shows Gingrich in second place all by himself with 19% support, behind Romney's 23% but ahead of Cain's 17%. More importantly, Gingrich also is pulling in money now—claiming to have made more on Wednesday than he did in all of July—which has allowed him to hire a staff of six in vital New Hampshire. Gingrich claims he's not just the latest flash in the pan—rather, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and others were all just temporarily filling the "vacuum" he caused because of his early troubles. “I’ve gone from being dead in June to being asked who will be in my Cabinet," said Gingrich. "I think that’s real progress.” He and the other GOP candidates debate again tonight.