The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Comic Relief –Team Newt Laying Eagle Eggs

This is the fifth post in our series, The Picture from Iowa, 2012 based on photos and on-the-ground conversations with photographer Brendan Hoffman leading up to the Ames Straw Poll, combined with analysis by The Bag.

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With all the bad stuff in the air right down, we thought you could use a more featherweight look at the Iowa scramble as we count down to Saturday’s Ames Straw Poll. The Gingrich couple having descended into self-parody, notice how Callista, the “alpha bird” in the relationship, looks a lot less like a Newt clone now than she does the Team United mascot — just a weird coincidence, or a graphic designer’s revenge? — and (in her dreams) America’s national good luck charm.

‘Nuff said.

PHOTOGRAPHS by Brendan Hoffman/Prime Collective. Campaign Tumblr Site.

Follow all the posts in this series at: The Picture from Iowa, 2012.

(caption: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista Gingrich introduce the movie A City Upon A Hill, which is hosted by the two of them, at a screening on Friday, April 29, 2011 in Washington, DC. )