Since Georgia was his home state i would have spent more time in Okla and Tenn. Trying to win those. He could almost count Georgia as a given. Campaign there but not as much as Tenn and Oklahoma!!!
What I think he was trying to do was maximize his delegate count. GA had 76 available to win. It was proportional. The better Newt did there, the more delegates he got.
I think he felt OK and TN would not yield as many as would GA if he was able to run up his GA totals.
He sent surrogates to OK and did some campaigning in TN.
With all of that, he got a fair number of delegates in both states considering he came in third.
You have heard, I guess, that Santorum has delegate issues in several of the primary states.
Newt does better than Santorum in delegates as a percentage of his vote totals, because Newt doesn’t have delegate issues in those states.
Newt knows politics.