What you are all forgetting is that Gingrich taught strategy at Military Colleges. He is assessing the overall primary contest like a military campaign; planning where it is best to do battle and not just lurching from one to state to the other.
As of 3/10/2012
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/
Soft Delegates
Romney 421
Santorum 164
Gingrich 128
Paul 73
Hard Delegates
Romney 340
Santorum 95
Gingrich 107
Paul 22
Dunkirk, from the looks of things.
that’s old info you got there. Santorum’s got at least 28 more hard delegates coming his way for 123, and probably as many as 135. Newt’s not going to make that margin up in AL/MS regardless of the primary results there. Santorum has the mo.