By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The showdown between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich was supposed to be the big story in Tuesday's GOP contests in Alabama and Mississippi — but polls show Mitt Romney is poised to rewrite the narrative that he can't win in the Deep South.
"I see a real close three-person race," said Richard C. Fording, political science professor at the University of Alabama. "There is a scenario for Romney to win, and I wouldn't be surprised if he did. That would be a big symbolic victory for him. Symbolic in that at least he could claim he won a deep red state in the South."
