From Port St. Lucie, Florida -
A final weekend of campaigning is here in the state of Florida, as only Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich will be in the Sunshine State on both Saturday and Sunday, as new polls continue to indicate that Romney remains in charge of the GOP primary race here.
"How about that debate," Romney said with a big smile to a crowd gathered near the Kennedy Space Center. "Wasn't that fun?"
The big cheer from the crowd and the big smile on Romney's face was all the evidence you needed to know that Romney had turned this race around from where it was on Monday, when Gingrich enjoyed all of the momentum.
On this Saturday, Gingrich and Romney start the day almost 600 miles apart, as Romney stumps for votes in Pensacola, while Gingrich is just north of West Palm Beach.
Romney will stay in the Florida Panhandle on Saturday; Gingrich will go from near West Palm up to Orlando and back with a series of events.
On Sunday, Gingrich will go from north of Tampa to Jacksonville, while Romney starts in Naples and ends up near Fort Lauderdale.
I'm here in Port St. Lucie to catch Gingrich on Saturday morning as he heads north towards Orlando.
As I was driving here on Friday night down I-95, I was flipping the radio and stumbled on to an interesting back and forth between talk show hosts Mark Levin and Sean Hannity.
Hannity had called in to Levin's show on the telephone and they were both joining forces to denounce the Republican attacks on Gingrich which take aim at Gingrich's differences with the Reagan Administration.
Hannity - who has tried to stay neutral in the GOP race - has been increasingly aggravated by the attacks on Gingrich, which he says are mainly based on out-of-context allegations by Republicans big and small.
It was interesting to listen to some of the big shots of talk radio openly struggle with how their fans are dealing with Gingrich; it feeds in to some of Gingrich's complaints that Romney has been running an underhanded campaign against the former House Speaker.
"He's so desperate to be President, he doesn't think the truth matters," Gingrich said earlier this week.
Except Gingrich didn't say that in the debate - and so it didn't get as much attention.
It should be an interesting weekend on the roads of Florida.
