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Winning Our Future
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Newt Gingrich 2012 presidential campaign.
South Carolina: 1st place, 40%
Ahead of the South Carolina primary, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson donated $5 million to "Winning Our Future", the Super PAC that supports Gingrich. The super PAC allocated $3.4 million for TV advertising in South Carolina, including the trailer for a 27-minute documentary titled "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" that purported to tell the tale of a "predatory corporate raider". This line of attack drew disapproval from some Republican leaders and pundits. After the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" gave the film their most damning rating of "4 Pinocchios", Gingrich called on the PAC to "either edit every single mistake or pull the entire film". A Reuters/Ipsos poll announced a week before the primary showed Gingrich slipping behind the front runner.