With Newt Gingrich's ascendance, more attention is being paid to Callista Gingrich

Courtesy of the Gingrich campaign

The latest polls in Iowa show Newt Gingrich with the support of 31 percent of likely caucus goers.  That's quite a change for a campaign which at one point was declared dead—in part because Gingrich took time off to take his wife, Callista, on a cruise.

But now Callista, a Luther College graduate, is getting new attention as her husband becomes the latest Republican frontrunner.

A recent Reuters news agency report concentrated on Callista's Luther College background: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/07/us-campgaign-gingrich-callista-idUSTRE7B609320111207