How different might the world be if Jeri Ryans statements about her ex had not become public when he was running against Obama...?

It is hard to be certain, but moneybombing seems to already be having an effect in OH, definitely a state critical to the GOP nomination. Santorum still leads, but his numbers are slipping, though part of that could also be due to Romneys momentum from Tuesday. It and GA are the only big Super Tuesday states, and the only possible big story out of GA would be Gingrich failing to win it; if Romney pulls off an upset there and an another come from behind ad-saturation victory in OH, we can stick a fork in this primary season.

But consider the other states:

WA is liberal to moderate territory; Gingrich will score no points preaching Islamofascism there, nor Santorum preaching total abortion bans. The same applies to MA and VT, with the added bonus for Romney that he was twice Governor of the former, and even independent VT/NH voters like New Englanders. In VA, the only other candidate on the ballot is Paul. Idaho, well, any state adjacent UT is Romney territory. That is five states with a total of 182 delegates where Romney should cruise to victory. There are just short of 300 available in the other six, and Romney should get about half as long as he finishes at least a respectable second everywhere else. With Santorum and Gingrich splitting the Not-Romney vote that seems a safe bet. The 140 delegates in GA and OH, and the 100 in TN and OK, would all be nice plums for Romney and largely finish the contest, but are far from indispensable.

I do not know the arcane allocation methods in each of those 11 states, but unless several are rather unusual (e.g. AZ retaining the traditional GOP winner-take-all format) Romney out to come out of Super Tuesday with close to 300 more delegates, nearly tripling his total. The rest will be hopelessly divided between Gingrich and Santorum (imagine a very plausible scenario where Gingrich wins OK AND TN on top of GA; where does that leave the race? Advantage: Romney.) Even if other state GOPs do not follow MIs lead and give Romney extra delegates in defiance of both the rules and election results (and there have been some VERY dubious primary outcomes throughout the primary season so far) a brokered convention is a virtual impossibility. If it comes to that, however, Romney can always lock up the nomination by offering Gingrich the VP slot, which he would probably accept.