Voting in Alabama, Mississippi could clarify race


March 13, 2012 at 10:15a.m.

Voting in Alabama, Mississippi could clarify race

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Mitt Romney is working to seal his status as the Republican presidential front-runner with a thus-far-elusive victory in the Deep South. Closely fought primaries in Alabama and Mississippi offer the former Massachusetts governor a key opportunity in a region that has been slow to embrace him. Today’s primaries are also poised to render a possible final verdict on Newt Gingrich’s Southern-focused candidacy.