Weighing in on last night’s victory for Newt Gingrich, a Senate Republican staffer tells TPM that the establishment views Mitt Romney as the only electable candidate in the field:
Members of Congress and Governors are professional politicians. They know what it takes to win elections. They may not LOVE Mitt Romney, but they are overwhelmingly in his camp. How much of it is about the electability of Mitt versus how incredibly unelectable the remaining candidates are?