Expect the big guns on all three cable news networks to be deployed Tuesday night as the GOP race for president continues in the Deep South, where Mitt Romney gets on his "y'alls" and references to "Cheesy grits" and tries to steal a couple of wins in Alabama and Mississippi. The once and still front-runner for the 2012 GOP nomination is deadlocked in head-to-head battles with both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, in what could be some nail-biting election returns tonight.
Although his critics like to bash him for not winning convincingly enough this primary season, and Mitt has admitted that he's not playing on his home turf, polls released on the eve of the elections reveal Romney has a solid chance of winning at least one state, possibly two — though he could end up losing both as well.
And Team Romney got more great news on the eve of the Summit in the South — despite talk (some of it in this space) that the Massachusetts moderate is alienating himself among Latinos and that the Republican party is doing the same with women, Barack Obama is hardly looking like a world-beater, having taken a serious hit in several major polls released on Monday.
This article appears in Mar 8-14, 2012.