Newt Gingrich has become the first top candidate in the presidential campaign to feel the full bite of the Super PAC, a fundraising tool that is reshaping the way American political campaigns are run.
His challenge to Mitt Romney to be the Republican Party's nominee to face President Barack Obama in 2012 lost momentum this week when Romney backers took advantage of changes to campaign finance laws that erased restrictions on donations that corporations and wealthy donors can make for campaign advertising.
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