delegates. it s a southern strategy, southern states factoring heavily. speaker gingrich talked about oklahoma, texas where the texas governor rick perry has endorsed him. its go b getting delegates and the magic number is 1144. he envisioned a delegate ballot into april and he is ahead by mid-april. a lot of people say it s pretty optimistic at that point. gregg: clearly he is optimistic. look, in addition to florida and nevada, mitt romney is looking at maine, colorado, minnesota and michigan. he is strong favorite in each of those and he won each and every one of those four years ago. what is his challenge to maintain the momentum and maybe to try to vanquish his competitors to get them to drop out at least one of them? that is tough thing to do as