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Made his lifes work, made his money closing down factories and venture capital style financial gambling. americans are tired of politicians who dont care about job also never vote for mitt romney. >> rick: lets move away from the talking points and matt, let me ask you about orrin hatch who today found out that he now has to face a challenger in a primary if he wants to keep his seat as the long-time senator from the state of utah. whats your take away there? >> this convention process in utah i...

Campaign complains about this kind of thing. i mean, this is how the process works. as a matter of fact, were working with his people in multiple states to try to shut romney out. whatever works best for our campaign at that time. were skrapg hard in the convention process. thats politicking. if you love politics, convention politics are full contact. theyre a lot of fun. >> politics aint bean bag. that will sounds like the official response. i want to bring in the panel here. there is a new ron...

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Via their convention process. thats why you see states on both of those. and so that takes us to the super delegates. 120 of them. theyre sort of party leaders. much smaller number of these folks. but some of them have already endorsed mitt romney, some, a couple maybe endorsed newt gingrich and rick santorum. but theyre always up for grabs so to speak. so that brings us to our total here. right? the 491 delegates that you could get in primaries if you filed, if you got into the race sometime be...

Lose because of the close convention in utah, the way bennett lost. >> thats ridiculous. whats your read in 12, republicans that may be in changer. >> the reason hatch is in danger is because it would be easy to do. the tea party has been clever about its ability. they do really well in the small states and in this case, in utah, we know the rules are so, frankly, rigged, in the primary process, its not an open process. it really is sort of a -- its that convention process, technically theres a ...

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Afraid to take on in delaware, mike castle. whats happened? >> if you want to find the trend here when it comes to the tea party endorsed candidates upending the establishment, delaware is certainly right for it. its a small state. its a closed primary. what do i mean by that? it means independents cant show up and pick a republican ballot. only registered republicans. so, theres number two. a long-time incumbent, even though hes running for the u.s. senate for the first time, mike castle has he...