BTW, who is your congressman if you don't mind my asking?

Of course, any nomination on either side will be best for advertising agencies, as has been pointed out here so well by a commenter (whose TL name I wish that I could recall).  That's the contest, between advertising agencies, not between candidates, when Newt also claims that he is not a Washington insider.  

Maybe the policies of the President have no real direct effect on you, so you have the luxury of complaining about Obama at every turn. But unlike yourself, I (and millions of others) are directly affected by the Prez' policies (at work/home and/or daily life), and let me say, the past four years have been like night and day compared the 8 years of darkness that came before.

Ah, the Southern Strategy & Nixon: Must be round 10 or so; except one that the Southern Showman Newtie may bite the Repubs in the butt. he has stood the Southern strategy on it's head.  especially if he can figure how to win Florida...my questions on that concern the percentage living in the conservative panhandle, the Cuban-American vote, and the vote of non- wealthy seniors.

This is a ridiculous comment.

And unless they can catch him in bed with a dead woman or live boy there isn't anything left that might run off the Christian Right.

Tracy, people are angry at Obama.

But I can't keep track of what to expect from the players in that side of the soap opera of politics, as I just don't get their program, I guess.

Romney has the organization - Newt is still scrambling.

The Romney camp understood long ago that once the small-state contests are over, the race becomes a quest for delegates to August's Republican National Convention. 1,144 delegates are needed to nominate, and they won't be gathered quickly. Republicans are operating under complex rules this year that award delegates in a variety of ways, making it difficult for anyone to clinch the nomination fast.

By the end of February, only about 15 percent of delegates will have been chosen. Romney's real edge, Sabato said, would become apparent March 6, on which there will be 12 primaries or caucuses. One-fourth of all delegates will be selected that day.

"Only someone like Romney can compete everywhere at once," Sabato said. Gingrich was unable to get on the Virginia's March 6 ballot and reportedly has had trouble filling delegate slates.

Romney has organizations in place in state after state, and "he should be the candidate to be the nominee," said Lance deHaven-Smith, professor of public administration and policy at Florida State University.

Romney still faces tall hurdles - the conservative base of his party hasn't rallied to him - but his path ahead should get smoother. He's got a good chance to win Florida, and has strong support in upcoming contests in Nevada Feb. 4, Colorado Feb. 7 and Arizona and Michigan Feb. 28.

Romney, though, still must show he can win somewhere other than New Hampshire, where he owns a home and governed the neighboring state.
Florida is a real possibility. "He's been more evident on television, and Florida Republicans are not as conservative as South Carolina Republicans," said Peter Brown, Orlando-based assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Typically, insurgents like Gingrich stumble in big states because the strategy that vaulted them to small-state victory doesn't translate to bigger, more-complex states. Visits to five diners a day with 100 people each, which worked in South Carolina, doesn't have the same impact in Florida, which has more than 19 million people and a half-dozen expensive media markets.