I don’t really think tonight was such a disaster for Newt. If you look at this map, there’s reason to believe that Newt could do really well in the South.
Everyone knows that anything south of the Panhandle in Florida is not really part of the South. Newt did really well in the Panhandle; Gingrinch is beating Mitt by more than twenty points in most of those counties. If I were him, I’d be looking forward to Super Tuesday.