After months of hitting the campaign trail, Republican candidates hoping to win their party’s nomination for the 2012 presidential election have been spending most of their time in planes, trains and automobiles. Home, sweet, home has been a dizzying series of hotel rooms.
But out there somewhere, each of these politicians actually does have a domestic domicile where there are no corn dogs to eat, no stranger’s babies to hold and no stray swarms of supporters to glad-hand.
As the GOP primary season cranks into high gear, we’re taking a look at the homes these candidates want to trade in for the big white one at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington. D.C.
Newt Gingrich
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The former House speaker was born in Pennsylvania, grew up in Georgia and served as a U.S. Congressman from the Peach State, but he now calls McLean, VA home. After his resignation as speaker in 1998, Gingrich’s aspirations to transform the nation, as outlined in his 1994 “Contract With America,” were short-circuited. Now, however, the 68-year-old author is taking no prisoners as he tries to leap-frog over Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum for a shot at the GOP nomination.
Gingrich purchased his home (above) in McLean in 2000 for $995,000. The 5-bedroom, 5-bath home has 5,206 square feet of living space. The Colonial-style home was built in 1987. Only 10 miles from the White House, McLean is a critical suburban outpost for the Beltway political crowd.