Will South give Romney the birthday present he's been asking for?

Tomorrow we'll get the results of two more GOP contests — Mississippi and Alabama — where frontrunner and presumptive nominee Mitt Romney is hoping to further add to his argument that his competitors should drop out of the race and unite behind his campaign.

Timing would be great for Romney. He's coming off a close win in Ohio and is celebrating his birthday (can you believe this guy is 65?).

Romney has had his campaign surrogates touting the same message. Real estate mogul, reality televison personality and presidential campaign flirt Donald Trump had this to say, yesterday:

Trump told Fox News (Via Politico):

“It’s not game over [yet] because nobody gets out. I mean, Rick Santorum, who lost by 18 or 19 points running for the Senate in Pennsylvania, just keeps going and going,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.” “What does he have to lose by staying in? So he just doesn’t get out

“He’s not going to win and it’s not going to happen. In my opinion, it’s not going to happen and the one that’s winning is Obama.

At a certain point, you have to get behind a person and you have to start going after Obama and not each other. And what the Republicans are doing is disgraceful."

Now, I'm rarely, if ever, inclined to agree with Trump on matters of politics but, if Gingrich or Santorum can't pull together a win tomorrow then I'll side with the Romney camp.

In the meantime, both parties must focus on mobilizing the electorate. After what has been 7 years of unpopular presidencies (the last half of the Bush administration and much of the Obama administration thus far) many young people are little more than turned off by politics.

In fact, a study released by test-prep provided Kaplan last week included some troubling statistics.

According to the study:

The shine off the Capitol dome may be losing its luster for pre-law students, a traditional bullpen for future politicians. In a Kaplan Test Prep survey of 758 pre-law students conducted between December 2011 and February 2012, 38% said they would consider running for political office – a marked decline from the 54% who reported they were thinking about becoming candidates in 2009. Within that 38% lies a glaring gender gap: 51% of male pre-law students would consider running, but only 29% of female pre-law students would consider it.

If the decline in political aspirations among pre-law students continues, it may fuel an existing and related trend: the decline in the number of lawyers serving in Congress.

Here is a key question for us: If our nation's aspiring lawmakers are, in fact, not aspiring lawmakers, should we be confident about young turnout in 2012? What is turning young people off from the political process?