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Doesnt look good for santorum and its going to be hard to get there. what does he have to do to break out and have a rally of the kind that ronald reagan had in 1976 against gerald ford. >> i think he had as to delegate the conservative vote and its probably necessary for santorum to have a victory for gingrich to bow out. gingrich doesnt seem to have failed in his own terms and set himself up as pursuing the southern strategy and that didnt work out. now, if you look at. i think that the santor...

One. he is way ahead in the delegate count. it isnt even close. now, that is part of the new truth in the republican primary. there are two kinds of presidential primaries, in any given moment. there is momentum-driven kind and delegate-driven kind. if youre a president front-runner what you want is momentum-driven election, put it away early by piling up one after the other in victor is. iowa votes for you, new hampshire, because you got new hampshire, get south carolina, then maybe super tuesd...

Gingrich 43,000. >> can you give us those numbers again? >> we got very specific. >> and now the latest delegate count. after the primaries in washington, dc, maryland, and wisconsin, romney picked up a total of 83 delegates. santorum got at least six. newt gingrich, ron paul, they did not get any delegates and this are three delegates that have not been allocated. now, to total delegate counts, the magic number to secure the nomination is 1,144. got that? got that? romney is now at 655. 400 ahe...

And is trying in some way to boost his prospects and frankly misrepresenting the truth is not a good way of doing that. >> hes far behind in the delegate count. hes far behind in the popular vote count. if you look at the math at how many votes hed have to win, its a difficult road for him. and at this stage, he was looking for some way to try to gain ground. i understand that. but i would hope that youd use truth as one of the pillars of your strategy. >> michael steele, just educate me on this...

Penetrating political analysis. think of our approach today for keeping score at home as if you were watching a baseball game, ultimate fighting maybe. to the scoreboard we go. rick santorum takes two deeply red southern states last night. alabama and mississippi and long after most of us here on the east coast went to bed early this morning mitt romney took the crucial, crucial, very crucial hawaii caucuses. that is a lot riding on that. the delegate count looks like this. after all, the shooti...

Nominee and have campaign -- working during a convention. >> all right. lets take a look at how the delegate count looks now. the total needed for the nomination is 1,144. mitt romney leads with 377. rick santorum is second with 146. newt gingrich has 112. and ron paul has so far a meaningless collection of 31 delegates. from his position in third place, newt gingrich still sees a clear path to the nomination. >> people shouldnt take these delegate counts too seriously. governor romney has a ver...

I think the math is now on romneys side. >> yeah, but ann, listen, we had the headline the last vote winning ugly. weve heard this before. the bottom line is, mitt romney got the heck out of done, he moved from the south. his internal polling obviously showed him something here. he can talk about delegates. his campaign can talk about delegates. we know the importance there, but the -- his feet is certainly to the fire right now. >> thats right. and michaels exactly right. the narrative, the big...

Are not going to go to a convention all the way to the end of august to select a nominee and have campaign -- working during a convention. >> all right. lets take a look at how the delegate count looks now. the total needed for the nomination is 1,144. mitt romney leads with 377. rick santorum is second with 146. newt gingrich has 112. and ron paul has so far a meaningless collection of 31 delegates. from his position in third place, newt gingrich still sees a clear path to the nomination. >> pe...

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Contests and territoris. according to "real clear politics" count, delegate count since super tuesday, romney has won 73 delegates to santorums 68. jon: although last night in alabama and mississippi, all came in essentially, three front-runners or three top tiers i guess you call it, they all essentially split the delegates. each way away with essentially the same number of delegates. >> thats right. the republicans in this cycle for the first time in memory adopted rules to states allocate del...