YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – “There are other folks in this campaign talking about a lot of other things, and that’s fine,” Mitt Romney told a crowd of several hundred people in this job-starved Rust Belt town on the eve of Super Tuesday. “But for me, it’s more jobs, less debt, and smaller government.”

While GOP rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have gotten sidetracked by contraception, Sandra Fluke, and other media obsessions of the moment, Romney has stuck close to his message on the economy and government spending. It shows a discipline in the campaign — and in the candidate himself — that other contenders just don’t have.