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 This is the most volatile and tumultuous presidential primary race of our lifetimes. Look at these numbers. In June 2011, in South Carolina, Mitt Romney led Newt Gingrich by 15 points, 27% to 12%, in a Public Policy Polling survey. Two months later, PPP had Rick Perry leading Mr. Romney by 20 points, 36% to 16%, with Mr. Gingrich running third. In early December, Mr. Gingrich vaulted to the top, leading Mr. Romney by 23 points (CNN). A month later Mr. Romney led by 18. 
 
 Last Saturday, South Carolina voted. Mr. Gingrich won in a 12-point blowout. 
 
 Jump to Florida. ... 

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 This is the most volatile and tumultuous presidential primary race of our lifetimes. Look at these numbers. In June 2011, in South Carolina, Mitt Romney led Newt Gingrich by 15 points, 27% to 12%, in a Public Policy Polling survey. Two months later, PPP had Rick Perry leading Mr. Romney by 20 points, 36% to 16%, with Mr. Gingrich running third. In early December, Mr. Gingrich vaulted to the top, leading Mr. Romney by 23 points (CNN). A month later Mr. Romney led by 18. 
 
 Last Saturday, South Carolina voted. Mr. Gingrich won in a 12-point blowout. 
 
 Jump to Florida. ...
– Republicans are in the midst of "the most volatile and tumultuous presidential primary race of our lifetimes," and it's exposed an "age-old split between the grassroots and the perceived GOP establishment," writes Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. "Actually, it's more a wound." The only person to ever heal that wound was Ronald Reagan, and so naturally, Reagan has become an issue, with Newt Gingrich claiming to be the Gipper's successor. He's not, Noonan assures us. "Reagan was a constructive figure, not destructive," she writes. "If Newt is the donkey who knocked down the barn, Reagan's the guy who'd build it." Gingrich's claims that he helped Reagan beat the Soviets are just wrong—he was in Congress, but not a leader, and spoke against Reagan as often as not. He became a Reagan acolyte only after Reagan was cemented as an icon. "He is an entrepreneur; it was where the business was." Click to read her entire column.