Good Week for Romney

After a series of stressful weeks for Mitt Romney, filled with must-win contests and doubts about his electoral prospects, The Hotline notes that Romney finally has a week where he can let things fall as they will.

“Romney
has the least to lose this upcoming week as Alabama and Mississippi
voters head to the polls. True, talk that Romney can’t coalesce
conservative voters is likely to continue if Romney underperforms in the
red southern states. But the stakes are much higher for former House
Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum… If Gingrich loses
to Santorum, the former Speaker’s campaign would have a tough time
arguing there’s any credible path for him in the presidential race…
But if Gingrich wins, he remains a credible threat to Santorum in the
race, undercuts Santorum’s argument that he is the candidate to harness
conservative fervor, and ends Santorum’s hope (at least for the time
being) that Gingrich will drop out of the race.”