But after a single-minded focus on barnstorming around Georgia leading up to the Super Tuesday contests, Mr. Gingrich is poised to gain a substantial share of the state’s 76 delegates to the Republican convention. Amid persistent questions, Gingrich has felt the need to prove that he is remaining in the race beyond Tuesday, and his campaign took the unusual step of releasing a schedule a week in advance showing trips to Alabama and Mississippi -- both of which vote March 13 -- and Kansas, which holds its caucuses Saturday. Lingering at the Gingrich primary night party Tuesday night, Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide helping run the Winning Our Future Super PAC, said the group is airing advertisements in Kansas, Alabama and Mississippi and predicted Gingrich victories in the latter two states. I’m the tortoise.” 
 
 As Mr. Gingrich visits Alabama and Mississippi in the next two days, he will be shadowed by Mr. Santorum, who is turning his own sights to the Deep South. “With your help and a win next week we could really be in a totally new race, and I’m very excited about it,” he told several hundred supporters in the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, a speech that focused on Gingrich's plans to revive the space program. Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, said Mr. Gingrich had most likely also won support by attacking a favorite target, the “elite” news media, which he took to task for creating a controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s verbal attacks against an advocate for contraception. His path remains difficult, but the former U.S. House speaker's team insists a South-heavy primary schedule in the coming weeks gives him the opportunity for momentum. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
 
 Tuesday was meant to be Newt Gingrich’s moment, in which after a fallow February his presidential campaign could rebound by showing strength in the Republican Party’s Southern core.
– Newt Gingrich has received a much-needed boost from a big win in his home state—although without even a second-place finish elsewhere, the road ahead looks uncertain. Gingrich took 47% of the vote in Georgia to Mitt Romney's 26%, and Rick Santorum's 20%. More than a third of voters in the state Gingrich represented in the House for two decades said that his ties to Georgia influenced their choice, the New York Times notes. Alabama and Mississippi vote next Tuesday, and Gingrich aides expect him to do well there, although Santorum won both Tennessee and Oklahoma on Super Tuesday, with Romney coming in second. With the pro-Gingrich Winning Our Future super PAC still awash with Nevada billionaire Sheldon Adelson's cash, Gingrich is unlikely to drop out soon. But "he’s got to win something outside the South,” an Emory University political scientist tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Where’s he going to go? Where’s he going to show strength?”