How much effort should Romney place in winning Pennsylvania?

[tmthforu94]

Romney is in a good place - he has the momentum. All he needs to do on April 24th is keep Santorum from gaining any momentum and keep it for himself.

How does he do that?

Downplay expectations in Pennsylvania. Spend about a third of your time in Pennsylvania, the rest on making sure you carry all the other states voting that day, which you're expected to win. If all the attention is on Pennsylvania, if Santorum wins, he'll grab the headlines and thus, the momentum. You can win the headline war if you win everywhere else and focus more attention there. A moderate Santorum victory with Romney not campaigning hard there would be much better for Romney than a razor-thin margin with Romney trying hard.

[tmthforu94]

PPP will be releasing their poll here in about 30 minutes...and Romney is leading. I think this is pre-Wisconsin, too.

In that case, go all in, Mitt.