[Riodacat]

Here's the diff:
Except for a very few exceptions (e.g. Mass), even those States which Mittens has won, he hardly ever got more than 35% - 40% of the vote.
Which means that the overwhelming majority of Republicans DO NOT WANT Mittens as their nominee.
He wins, because the conservative vote is split.
Conservatives have consistently won GT 50% of the vote.
If a single Conservative candidate were to consistently win GT 50% of the popular vote, that person would be the nominee (IMHO).

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

No, they wouldn’t.
Look at the math, Romney needs to win 49.7% of the delegates left.

If he wins California, New York and New Jersey (winner take all States that he will likely win), he would only need about 33% of the remaining delegates to clinch.

With Gingrich keeping his numbers down in the proportional States, it gives a chance to keep Romney under that number if Santorum can win the winner take all States of Texas, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

If Gingrich gets out, Romney will pick up 1 or 2 or 3 extra delegates from all of those proportional contests. And if that happens, Romney absolutely gets to 1144.