Santorum Campaign Hoping For Help From Gingrich [VIDEO]

Short on money and staff, Rick Santorum needs help to remain a viable threat to front-runner Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. One strategist hopes it will come from another rival, Newt Gingrich.

Top adviser John Brabender says Santorum’s future may depend upon Gingrich leaving the race. The former House speaker is showing no signs of bowing out, certainly not before Super Tuesday’s voting.

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Brabender says Santorum would win the nomination if all the conservatives and tea party supporters backed him as the one candidate against Romney.

Santorum and Gingrich are appealing for support from the same bloc of conservative voters. In Michigan, where Gingrich didn’t actively compete, the former speaker earned 6 percent of the vote. Romney beat Santorum by roughly 3 percentage points.

Romney working to connect personally with voters

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is working to connect more personally with voters and refocus his campaign on the fight for convention delegates as he tries to recover from a difficult month.

But the former Massachusetts governor created fresh controversy Wednesday by saying he opposed a Senate Republican effort that critics say would limit insurance coverage of birth control. Romney quickly reversed himself.

Romney is trying to capitalize on Tuesday’s victories in Arizona and Michigan and put to rest concerns within the GOP establishment about his inability to wrap up the nomination quickly.

Behind the scenes, Romney’s aides spent Wednesday working to recalibrate the candidate’s approach to next week’s Super Tuesday contests, when 10 states will vote and Wyoming will begin its caucuse.

Gingrich stakes his campaign on old Georgia home

Newt Gingrich’s political career is coming full circle: Georgia, the state that nourished his rise to House speaker, could strike a fatal blow to his presidential ambitions — even by his own admission.

The former Georgia congressman acknowledges that a loss in Georgia’s Super Tuesday primary would severely cripple his campaign. He’s betting that he can make another comeback in Georgia and a series of Southern primaries in a go-for-broke strategy to outlast his opponents and seize upon conservative unease with Mitt Romney.

Gingrich’s campaign has been perhaps the most topsy-turvy of any Republican’s. It nearly imploded last year and then rose in Iowa in January before attack ads weakened it.

Gingrich rebounded to win South Carolina’s primary, but he has since been on a long losing streak.

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