Mitt Romney Wins Virginia and Leads in Vermont as He Looks for a Super Night Mitt Romney won the primary in Virginia and was leading in Vermont tonight, but all eyes are fixed on a close race in Ohio as Super Tuesday results trickle in. In Virginia, Romney was the only candidate on the ballot aside from Ron Paul, and he had the most votes in Vermont, which neighbors Massachusetts, the state Romney governed, and which he is expected to win today. ABC News also projects that, as expected, Newt Gingrich will win the only Super Tuesday state to which he gave attention -- his home state of Georgia, which he represented as a member of Congress. As voters in 10 states made their picks for the Republican nomination, Romney was working to write the final chapter of the primary season on the biggest single day of contests in the race. Watch ABC News/Yahoo Coverage of Super Tuesday Results Romney, wearing the crown of official front-runner after recent wins in Michigan, Arizona and Washington, has been battling for the nomination for longer than it once seemed he would be. His main rival, Rick Santorum, emerged from nowhere first in Iowa and then in a string of states last month as the "conservative alternative" to Romney. In polls, Santorum led Romney in Tennessee and in Oklahoma, southern states in which his conservative message has resonated. While Santorum has been successful in riding occasional crests of momentum, "Super Tuesday" is more about the number of delegates who will be awarded to the candidates, and Romney appeared poised to be in the best position after the dust settles. The most contested and watched vote is in the swing state of Ohio, where Santorum led in the polls until just a few days ago. Now the race is as good as a tie, and the winner there will most likely be deemed the winner of Super Tuesday expectations. The candidates are fighting for 437 delegates just today, more than all the delegates that have been won already. Romney is in the lead with 203, and Santorum is in a solid second place with 92. The race ends once a candidate gets 1,144. Georgia offers the most delegates in today's voting with 76. Other big states are Ohio (66), Tennessee (58), Virginia (49) and Oklahoma (43). Three other states voting in caucuses today award fewer --- Idaho, North Dakota and Alaska. Making a rare cameo on the Super Tuesday stage was President Obama, who called his first press conference of the year this afternoon, perhaps not by coincidence. Asked vaguely to opine on Romney and the happenings within the GOP today, Obama gave his shortest answer: "Good luck tonight." He added, "Really." The primary is unlikely to actually end after the votes are all counted by Wednesday morning, though Romney is likely to be in better position with a comfortable lead in delegates. If the GOP primary becomes a two-man race between Romney and Santorum, the scramble for delegates will be similar to the delegate hunt that characterized the 2008 Democratic primary between Obama and Hillary Clinton -- a long-fought campaign that delved frequently into arcane tactics understood by few. If that's the case, a Romney win in Virginia would be potentially huge, because neither Santorum nor Gingrich, who didn't get enough signatures to get on the ballot, are eligible to get any delegates. "He'll come out of Super Tuesday with a much more commanding lead than he went into it with," Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has endorsed Romney, said on Fox News this afternoon. McDonnell, a potential candidate for vice president, said he wished Santorum and Gingrich were on the ballot to make the vote more competitive, but that "if you're going to be the president of the United States, you ought to be able to get 10,000 signatures." "It's unfortunate they didn't make it, but that's the rules," McDonnell added. Still, the numbers game reflects the long shift that Romney has made from the seemingly inevitable nominee to a student of delegate math. While he's still the favorite to capture the nomination, his focus on the general election has been distracted by Santorum's and Gingrich's alternate rises. If things work out ideally for Romney, Super Tuesday will bring about a hint of finality to the primary campaign and let him fix his sights squarely on Obama. But many of the next big primary contests are in the South, a weakness for Romney and a strength for Santorum (and Gingrich). Kansas, with 40 delegates, votes on Saturday; Alabama, with 50, and Mississippi, with 40, vote next Tuesday; and Missouri, with 52, votes March 17. "If you don't win the South, you don't win the nomination," Sue Everhart, the chairwoman of Georgia's Republican Party, told ABC News.