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Until he does, questions will remain about his ability to be the standard-bearer for a party that has roiled with populist rage for much of the past three years. 
  
 According to exit poll data, Romney lost “very conservative voters” — who made up 33 percent of the Florida voters — to Gingrich, 43 percent to 29 percent. While Romney won 51 percent to 32 percent among “somewhat conservative” voters, he lost evangelical voters to Gingrich, albeit by a small margin, 39 percent to 36 percent. 
  
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 And 41 percent of those polled said Romney isn’t conservative enough. 
  
 This is why Gingrich has an opening to keep going, and why Santorum is hanging on in case the former House speaker blows himself up again. 
  
 But Gingrich, who came in second in Florida and has been able to raise more money than Santorum, now has a few weeks to regroup and see if he can find a consistent message that will resonate with the base that vaulted him to first place in South Carolina. 
  
 Given the proportional delegate rules, roughly 95 percent of delegates are still to be allocated in upcoming races — which could mean, as Gingrich has vowed, a long spring. 
  
 4. Hispanic voters gave Romney a boost 
  
 Despite Gingrich’s potential appeal among Florida’s Hispanic immigrants, it was Romney who won more than half of the crucial voting bloc’s support. 
  
 Romney’s strong showing came despite a somewhat cool initial reception at the Hispanic Leadership Network in Florida last week and his language against “amnesty” during the Iowa caucuses. 
  
 Florida’s Hispanic community, dominated by Cubans and Puerto Ricans, tends to vote on specific issues that don’t always resonate widely outside Florida. But the vote tally is one that Romney’s camp will take heart from, given the role that Hispanic voters will play as a swing bloc in a general election. 
  
 5. There is no ‘new normal’ for campaigns 
  
 Gingrich has focused on running a nontraditional campaign, as he has put it, but certain time-honored rules still apply. 
  
 Which rules? Negative campaigning works. Ground games are important. And so is money. 
  
 Despite some public boasting by Team Romney about how it beat back Gingrich after South Carolina, the reality is that the tactics the campaign employed weren’t particularly novel — it aired a barrage of negative ads, trotted out surrogates to make its case and rattle Gingrich, and looked up opposition research on its rival. 
  
 All of those things require organization, and Romney is the only candidate who has one besides Paul, whose aims and campaign style are different. It’s also why Romney was able to bank a huge early vote lead in Florida, where the turnout in this primary declined by more than 200,000 votes from last time. ||||| Four years ago, Mitt Romney lost the Florida presidential primary to John McCain by just 5 percentage points. Exactly nine days later, Romney dropped out of the GOP race.This time around, Romney is expected to win Florida, probably by substantially more than McCain did. But Romney's defeated rivals aren't going anywhere. Newt Gingrich has vowed to press on to the Republican National Convention at the end of August. Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are already campaigning in states that hold caucuses next month.The sharp contrast between Romney's 2008 pullout and his rivals' determination to press ahead -- into March, if not beyond -- reflects the changing forces that have reshaped Republican presidential politics.His opponents argue that the race needs to go on because Romney is a weak front-runner who has failed to rally every element of the party — especially its most conservative voters.But a more prosaic set of factors may be more to the point: An overhaul of the nominating rules and a radically reshaped campaign-finance environment are making it impossible for Romney to prevail as quickly as McCain did last time. At the same time, it arguably makes it easier for his challengers to keep going.In 2008, Romney abandoned his campaign, despite winning 11 states and having the personal resources to continue (he had already spent $40 million of his personal fortune, leaving him a mere $200 million or so). But the former Massachusetts governor had come to the conclusion that McCain was likely to be the nominee, and that continuing to fight might damage his own prospects for another presidential run in 2012.So, Romney quit on Feb. 7, two days after the Super Tuesday primaries.This year, however, Super Tuesday has been pushed back into March, part of a deliberate effort by party leaders to forestall a rush to judgment in choosing a nominee.Over the next 33 days, only two primaries with delegates at stake are being held -- Michigan, which Romney won last time, and Arizona, where he ran second to favorite-son McCain -- both on Feb. 28. (The Missouri presidential primary on Feb. 7 is a nonbinding "beauty contest"; Gingrich didn't even make the ballot.) Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota and Maine, all won by Romney in 2008, will stage caucuses this month, but relatively few delegates will be selected.The non-Romney candidates are already looking ahead to the first half of March, when 17 states hold voter tests.Gingrich is counting on March 6 victories in Georgia, Tennessee and Oklahoma, and in Alabama and Mississippi the following week. Romney is favored in Massachusetts and Virginia (where Gingrich also failed to qualify for the ballot) and Ohio.Ron Paul, with a grass-roots funding base and national organization of supporters, is targeting caucuses in an effort to win enough delegates to influence the platform at the national convention in Tampa . He also hopes to harvest delegates in primary states that award delegates to losing candidates — another change in party rules designed to extend the campaign. The Texas congressman could decide to keep going until June, when the last delegates are chosen.Gingrich and Rick Santorum, who have struggled to keep their campaigns solvent, are being propped up by "super PACs," funded by wealthy benefactors who can give in unlimited amounts thanks to a series of federal court rulings in 2010. In the past, when candidates stopped winning primaries, their money dried up and their campaigns were over. Not in 2012, at least not yet.The Gingrich campaign argues that, even with a Florida win, Romney will have less than 10% of the delegates needed to lock up the nomination. Realistically, no candidate will be able to accumulate the necessary 1,144 delegates before mid-April, at the earliest.If Romney runs the table in February and prevails in the first half of March, it will be extremely difficult for Gingrich or Santorum to credibly argue that they have a viable chance of heading him off. The pressure to quit would be even more intense than it's likely to be in coming days.On the other hand, if Romney stumbles -- or if Gingrich, perhaps with fresh backing from his wealthy Las Vegas benefactors, the Adelsons, decides to wage jihad against the party elite -- the race will go on, into April and perhaps beyond. Unlike Romney, four years ago, the 68-year-old Gingrich has little incentive to give up anytime soon. For the former House speaker, the future is now.paul.west@latimes.com ||||| Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. 
  
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 Mitt Romney won by vast margins on the two key questions of the election 
  
 Newt Gingrich promised Florida voters the moon and he crashed to earth. Mitt Romney won the crucial state big with 46 percent of the vote, beating Gingrich by 14 points. In Brevard County, where Gingrich's pledge to build a lunar colony might have wooed voters who worked in the space industry, Romney won by 7 points. 
  
 Inevitability restored. Romney has won snowbird victories in New Hampshire and Florida. He won Florida with almost 50 percent of the vote, a key psychological threshold for a candidate whose detractors once said he had a ceiling of 25 percent. Romney now rolls on with bragging rights: He dominated the biggest contest to date in a state that is representative of the Republican coalition and that is the largest contested prize in the general election. And he rolls on with wheels that are made of money. As the Florida polls were closing, his campaign announced that it had raised $24 million in the fourth quarter to Gingrich's nearly $10 million. Romney has $20 million in the bank he can use. 
  
 Romney won by vast margins on the two key questions of the election. According to exit polls, among the 45 percent of voters who wanted someone who was in the best position to beat Obama, Romney won 58 percent to Gingrich’s 32 percent. Among the 62 percent for whom the economy was the number one issue, Romney won 52 percent to Gingrich’s 29. 
  
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 Romney's strongest argument will be that he was able to win with conservatives. Though both candidates are insiders, Newt Gingrich tried to make Romney's support within the party a liability. He tried to turn the race into a battle between the establishment and the grassroots. It was people power versus money power, said Gingrich (whose campaign has been aided by $10 million in donations from Sheldon Adelson). Exit polls suggest that the argument didn't work. Romney won by four percentage points over Gingrich among the 65 percent of voters who say they are supporters of the Tea Party. He won by a similar margin among the 65 percent who call themselves conservatives. Gingrich won those who considered themselves "very conservative" and those who "strongly identify" with the Tea Party. 
  
 Romney even challenged Gingrich in north Florida, a conservative stronghold. Gingrich’s argument for continuing his campaign—which he pledged to do tonight—is that he enjoys strong support in the American South. But the panhandle mirrors the South as much as any portion of Florida. 
  
 Negative ads worked. Romney dumped $16 million of negative ads into the state. Gingrich said he thought Romney’s aggression would backfire. It didn't work. Voters thought both candidates aired unfair ads, but of those that thought so of Romney, a far larger proportion voted for him anyway. Also, in the last three days before the election, late-deciding voters went with Romney, suggesting that instead of penalizing him as Gingrich had hoped, they rushed into his arms. 
  
 The contest coming into Florida was between Romney's money and organization and Gingrich's momentum. Money and organization won out. Romney was on the airwaves beating on Gingrich in early January when there wasn't much competition. This might have locked in voters. Florida voters made up their minds earlier than in other states. (Only 28 percent said they decided in the last three days; in previous states the number was almost twice as much.) If the ads didn't do it, Romney's superior ground game did. His team started working the absentee and early voters in mid-December. Romney won that vote by a wide margin. 
  
 Romney won the 15 percent Hispanic vote 54 to 28. Gingrich had tried to make Romney's tough anti-illegal immigration position an issue, but it didn't work. That may be because the vote in Florida consists largely of Cubans, who are shielded from immigration policies that apply to other immigrants, and of Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens. Romney also won among women by 24 points. 
  
 The biggest blow for Gingrich is that exit polls show that just 55 percent of the voters view him favorably. Gingrich's big problem has always been that his low favorability rating with independent and swing voters makes it very hard for him to win the general election. That he can barely get a majority among his own tribe highlights how hard it would be for him as the GOP nominee. Seventy-four percent of voters had a favorable view of Romney. 
  
 Gingrich will argue that if you add the Santorum vote to his it shows that the anti-Romney vote almost totals what Romney won. But elections don't work that way. Polling in Florida showed that Santorum's voters would split equally between Gingrich and Romney if their man fell out of the race. Teresa Ruiz is one such voter. At a Romney rally in Halijah, Fla., she said she wanted to vote for Santorum but didn't think he could beat Obama so she went with Romney. "I wanted to go with my heart," she said, "but I went with my head instead." 
  
 Romney emerges a stronger candidate. He certainly showed he was willing to do what it takes, for those voters who might worry about whether he was tough enough to go up against Obama. The terrain is now very favorable as Romney heads into contests in Nevada, Michigan, Colorado, and Minnesota. He won all four of those in 2008. The next contest where Gingrich might have a good chance is almost a month from now, on Super Tuesday. There is only one debate in that stretch. 
  
 The Romney camp was hoping for a victory big enough to start calls for an end to the bruising contest, and they got one. Romney still needs 1,054 more delegates. Gingrich has vowed to fight on. He can argue that the northern counties where he won resemble the southern states that will vote on Super Tuesday. But the pressure will build for Gingrich to get out of the race. Obama is vulnerable. The Gallup 2011 average of Obama's approval rating in 12 swing states was 43 percent—dangerous territory for an incumbent. So don't blow it, Romney's backers will argue, by dragging out the primary fight. Romney's image with independents has already been dinged by the process. His unfavorable ratings among independents went up 15 points in a recent Washington Post poll. |||||
Mitt Romney won huge in Florida, but this race isn't over yet. Here's what the pundits are taking away from this one: Romney has a much tougher fight ahead than John McCain did at this stage in 2008, analysts tell the LA Times. The reason: super PACs. In the past, primary defeats cut off a candidate's fundraising, but now deep-pocket donors, like Newt Gingrich's pal Sheldon Adelson, can keep shoveling in cash. As his Obama-focused victory speech indicated, Romney will once again be running two campaigns: one for the nomination and one for the general election, Politico observes. But it'll be a tricky balance, because voters may have actually liked the attack dog version of Mitt. "Inevitability restored," declares John Dickerson of Slate. Romney has won the biggest contest, and "rolls on wheels that are made of money." He even did well in north Florida, an area much like the southern states Gingrich is counting on. Then again, it's worth noting that self-proclaimed "very conservative" voters still weren't behind Romney; they backed Gingrich 43% to 29%, and overall 41% said Romney wasn't conservative enough. Plus, Jonathan Bernstein of the Washington Post thinks there might be a "weird equilibrium in which Gingrich's popularity rises every time he's out of it, and people stop reminding Republican voters about all the reasons they should oppose him." Of course, it "then sinks rapidly as soon as they do."