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Race when he was competing with mitt romney. because of the superpacs that take limited donations, it only takes one multimillion dollar backer to keep your campaign going. foster indicated hes going to lend some kind of support this time as well. as long as thats the case santorum can hang around and wait for his moment. >> as long as that money keeps on keeping on. asking robert about rick santorum. he took a swipe at hillary clinton yet. lets listen to that. >> hillary clinton and big busines...

Ineligible for 18 of the states 66 delegates that puts him at substantial disadvantage. in the last few days in ohio mitt romney appeared to have surged in the polls. he had been down by double digits but the romney campaign points out romney has now won five states in a row and has the benefit of momentum. a victory in ohio in the popular vote and delegate count for romney would be significant. its not his native state like it was in michigan and it is an important rust belt state adjacent to p...

Thats very significant. romney has been winning those delegates for primary states. and after tonight, there wont be anywhere near as many primary states left for him to compete in. california and texas come very late in the process. romney will have to start competing in caucus states where base conservative tea party and self-described very conservative voters hold sway. thats where santorum and gingrich have shown real -- romney will have to verify the of the primary vote and start wrestling ...

And that was the state that gingrich said he had to win. its probably the high point of his evening. for much of the rest of the night is he likely to watch rick santorum and romney battle it out. though he will be collecting deletes in a host of other places. virginia you mentioned at the top. thats an example where gingrich and santorum face a bit of a problem structurally they are not on the ballot in the old dominion. as a consequence romney and ron paul is battling it out. romney is expecte...

Those two different scenarios lend two different political relates. one is the republic candidates keep fighting with each other and leave each other battered and bruised as they have been over the last few weeks. the other is mitt romney gets the 200 to 215, maybe 220 delegates he is hoping to gather tonight to get over that 400 threshold and then he starts focusing singularly on barack obama. im guessing the republic establishment would prefer the latter. >> chris: yeah. but he can focus on ba...

Numbers? lets take a look at this. here are some of his strongest groups. first you have got in georgia 70% of the voters in georgia say they are tea party supporters. nearly half of them went for gingrich. same kind of picture with those who call themselves conservatives. 70 o% of the electorate in georgia calls themselves conservative. 48% of them went for the former speaker. now, more than six in ten of georgia voters today call themselves white evangelical christians. he got half of that gro...

>> well, i mean that certainly is the question and clearly he has not made the sale yet. we can say from the exit polls that what we have seen in michigan, what we have seen in a bunch of these states continues to hold true. what we saw in florida. what we saw in south carolina, very conservative, strong tea party supporters. people for whom religious values are very important. they are not crazy about mitt romney. he loses that vote to, in one case gingrich. another case santorum. maybe here to...

Stay with us if you would. want to get to shannon bream where fox news has just predicted that in fact mitt romney has won the state of virginia. closer than many had expected in what is a two man race over ron paul because gingrich and santorum did not qualify there. they didnt get enough signatures. shannon bream live in richmond. whats happening there. >> its interesting because you mentioned for a long time we have seen the polls be very wide. huge gap between romney and poll. either they we...

Only one with romney here. the fact is he may have been helped by gingrich and santorum supporters who didnt have a choice on the ballot. they dont allow for wright -- write ins here. >> shepard: nine minutes until the polls are closing in the state of ohio. very tight race between rick santorum and mitt romney. santorum had been doing very well there lost some momentum in the last few days, maybe week or so. carl cammeron ohio is a state if you are a republic, you have got to have it. >> ha ha....

Polls will close in a few minutes it will take a while for this to be tallied up. santorum ran very strong in the southeastern part of ohio near his home state of pennsylvania, a lot of blue collar, appalachian type voters there. also very strong in cincinnati. the southwestern corner of the state over towards indiana and kentucky. romney looks for big big turnout out of cleveland and columbus. this is a quintessential republic establishment state. lots of blue collar voters that santorum and un...