Sekrah-- Agree with that last sentence completely-- Chris Mathews described the R reaction to Romney as \"tissue rejection\", and that\'s about right. It\'s 35 Romney vs. 65 not Romney, and as people drop out the 65 gets attched to fewer people, raising their numbers.
Miff-- the thing is, as they say, the Gingrich back story is \"baked in the cake\". I don\'t think anything involving sex or infidelity from his personal life 10+ years ago can hurt him now-- everybody has heard him say he did wrong, and got religion (in his case literally). People know who he is, and he\'s being judged by the debates and how he\'s handling the campaign-- which, despite him being a truly annoying egomaniac, has been brilliant. I don\'t think anyone else could have pulled this off with the resources he had, let alone the baggage. The problems for him will be if he blows up in a debate or something not sex-related shows up (corruption, explicit evidence he pushed Fannie towards disaster, like that).
On the other hand-- if there\'s anything in Romney\'s tax returns that even smells like he\'s playing games he\'s toast.
