Newt's murder-suicide pact progresses

          ...The Romney campaign is carefully monitoring Mr. Santorum’s and Mr. Gingrich’s delegate tallies and plans to label them spoilers if reaching 1,144 becomes implausible for them. At that point, Mr. Santorum and Mr. Gingrich would be running to stop Mr. Romney from doing so — a strategy that Mr. Gingrich is already discussing openly — and thereby forcing a fight to the convention.

          “Roughly translated, that means, ‘We’re planning on ensuring the party can’t choose a nominee until September, with 60 days to take on an incumbent president who will have $1 billion,’ ” Ms. Chen said, referring to an often disputed estimate of Mr. Obama’s fund-raising goal...