Of course, they've been saying "only Newt can stop Romney" before Newt had even won a single primary, so today's results will probably be cited as more "proof" that only Newt can win.
Perhaps one of the "Santorum should drop out to stop Romney" freepers can tell me which primary would have gone differently if Santorum hadn't been running? Certainly not Missouri, unless you're going to make a case Newt would have waged a massively successful and unprecedented write-in campaign that topped Storm Thurmond and Lisa Murkowski. Even in Florida, if Santorum had "dropped out", endorsed Romney, and gotten EVERY single one of his voters to support Newt (which certainly wouldn't have happened as some would have voted for Romney, Ron Paul, or stayed home)... but let's go with the statistically impossible scenario of ALL the Santorum's voters in FL switching en masse to Newt... it STILL wouldn't have changed the results.
How exactly does Santorum dropping out "stop Romney"? If this is the most (and only) important issue in the primary, let's hear some evidence how it works.
Part of the problem is that Santorum lies about Newt’s record, though he just gets less press about it since he can’t afford the ads. As a result, it depresses turnout, and since Santorum doesn’t have much to offer, he doesn’t always gain any benefits.
Newt has to win, because, honestly, Santorum is an empty suit. A Romney vs Santorum would be pretty tedious, and I doubt Santorum would handle his own medicine from Romney, especially when Romney has more money.
Santorum is a bottom feeder. He should drop, as he’ll interfere in the real important states.
But but but, don't you know that Santorum is only in the race to split the vote and steal from Gingrich (even though Santorum supporters supposedly support Romney as a second choice) and Romney is actually secretly funding Santorum's campaign?
So I've been told on here anyway...