Gallup Editor-In-Chief: Romney Support 'Collapsing' Nationally (TPM)

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35. If Gingrich trounces Romney in SC and Romney barely eeks out Florida, that possibilty increases

So many of the GOP primaries are not 'winner-take-all', they are proportional in delegate allotment. Gingrich is unelectable in all but a few nightmare scenarios ('black swan' US economic collapse in Q2 or Q3, massive false-flag terror attacks inside the US, assassination(s), huge, brand-new scandal of instantly clear guilt on Obama's or Biden's part, etc).

Romney, in a protracted primarily battle may become so utterly damaged that even the GOP establishment gives up on him, especially given his tepid support from the right, and his Mormon background (his ultimate, mostly heretofore unspoken of Achille's heel to the traditional Christian bigots on all side of the US political spectrum). At that point, a brokered convention rears it BushCo-driven head, and Jeb, Christie, or General Petraeus come to the fore. If there is an ongoing Iran war, and it is going badly on a multitude of fronts, Petraeus's stock surges.