ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUION: …[Newt] Gingrich resisted cries that he ditch his campaign Wednesday after winning just one state – his old home of Georgia – on Super Tuesday, and he scrapped plans to visit the Kansas caucuses to focus on the pair of states he thinks he can win next week.
“We are staying in this race because I believe it is going to be impossible for a moderate to win in the general election,” Gingrich said at a rally in Montgomery, Ala., one of three he held in the state Wednesday, greeted by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters at each turn.
His rivals and others turned up the pressure to get him to leave, starting with allies of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum who argue that Santorum – who has much better standing in national polls, more state wins and more delegates – is the best candidate for conservatives to rally around against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
If Gingrich remains in the race “it’s only a hindrance to a conservative alternative to Romney,” said Stuart Roy, an adviser to a Santorum-aligned Super PAC, the Red, White and Blue Fund… (more)
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