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Keeps looking more likely.

Let's say Thompson or Huckabee takes South Carolina and Rudy takes Florida. Suddenly you have a situation on Feb. 5 where Rudy can win the winner take all states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut; Thompson or Huckabee takes the South; Romney wins Massachusetts and Utah; McCain wins Arizona and the rest of the states get divided up.

Perhaps, at this point, Romney is hoping for a brokered convention. The more cerebral, Beltway logic that prompted the National Review to endorse him--that he is the best one to preserve the Reagan coalition--may resonate more among delegates to the convention than among actual voters.