ATLANTA ? Since his loss in Florida, Newt Gingrich has all but disappeared.
In Nevada, he essentially flouted public events. He then ignored the next contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, instead making a few Ohio appearances. While Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum duked it out in Michigan and Ohio this week ? important Super Tuesday states ? Gingrich could instead be found in California, where he spent the majority of his time raising funds.
Continue ReadingThe former House speaker finally emerged in a significant primary state this weekend in Georgia, his home turf after serving two decades as a suburban Atlanta congressman. He is counting on the Peach State ? with its 76 delegates, the most of any state on Super Tuesday ? to help him mount yet a third comeback in what has been a roller-coaster race. But the former speaker?s puzzling campaign itinerary and take-it-or-leave-it approach to the campaign calendar may stand in the way.
Gingrich says he is still playing to win. The sparks of another rise will begin in Georgia, he insists, and grow in other Southern states like Tennessee that are rich with delegates. But pinning all of his hopes on winning one geographic region holds serious risks.
?If you win Georgia and Tennessee, that?s not enough and I?m not so sure that Newt is going to win Tennessee,? said Chip Saltsman, former campaign manager for Mike Huckabee. ?You?ve got to win multiple states in multiple regions to say you?ve got momentum to be the nominee.?
The ex-lawmaker is campaigning with former presidential candidates from the South who have now endorsed him: Atlanta businessman Herman Cain, who stumped with him this weekend, and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson. Texas Gov. Rick Perry will also be joining him on the campaign trail.
?We actually have a very good chance of doing well here and that gives us a springboard then to go across the whole country,? Gingrich told reporters Saturday at a press conference in Suwanee, Ga. ?I think that?s part of what we are counting on.?
?I think a Georgia conservative has a certain advantage across Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, you know, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana ? just take the region,? he said.
But Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia are the only Southern states that vote on Super Tuesday (March 6), and Gingrich isn?t even on the ballot in Virginia. And there are three important contests before then in Arizona, Michigan and Washington state in which the ex-speaker has not thus far played aggressively.
While Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana vote in March, Kentucky and Arkansas don?t hold their contests until late May. By that point, it may be too late to permanently capture the momentum in the Republican race.
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