Should Florida come after the first four contests, Romney supporters are hopeful he could score an important win in what would be the first large primary state. Yet they aren’t envisioning a 2008-like scenario where John McCain effectively wrapped up the nomination by notching a Florida victory.
Rather, Romney advisers view 2012 as a unique election cycle that will be not be shaped by any recent GOP precedent or the traditional unwritten rules about which states are essential.
”This will be about who won the most delegates,” said Stuart Stevens, one of Romney’s top strategists, adding that the rules of presidential primaries are always being re-written. “After the campaign we’ll look back and think the path to victory was whatever the winner did.”…
”It’s not going to be a momentum strategy, it’s going to be looking at the entire map and figuring out what makes sense, like a general election,” said a Romney official who was at a Beeson session and is familiar with campaign planning. “The nomination is not going to be decided by one precinct outside of Des Moines.”
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