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Force their will on them and get more delegates. hes going to slog it out. i think i was joking with you this morning. im guessing gerald ford argued the delegate math was on his side at this point in time because he was winning like this over ronald reagan. >> but i was there. they also had a delegate hunting operation going on behind the scenes. >> ford did? >> for ford, right. and when we arrived a the the convention, mississippi was still open. and they were saying weve got to get mississipp...

Points. when we were watching the futures, they were indicated to be up by twice that. the big news was the adp number that came out. adp showed a gain of 216,000. that was right if line. chuck, this gets us on our way to fridays big jobs number. >> that should drive some markets, thats for sure. our deep dive into the delegate math. state by state in 30 seconds. we kept tell yg you its about delegates. the deep dive is into the

Romney more than anyone, tested in tennessee in a serious way. if he can take tennessee, it says a lot. but he is still now up against, as we heard earlier, some very hard delegate math. this may be a republican nomination which is not winnable from the voters f mitt romney thinks he can comfortably go into the republican convention simply a saying i got more delegates than anybody else and think that is going to inspire confidence in the republican establishment and everyone to gel around him, ...

reality in the republican race. a few things are obvious. mitt romney for example is the clear and undisputed frontrunner but a front run where giant question marks. ten states voted last night and romney won six including the big contested battle ground of ohio. the math now very much on his side. romneys 429 delegates are more than all of his three rivals combined. and they put him almost 40% of the way to the magic number required to clinch the nomination. 23 states have now weighed...

>> this was a big night tonight. lots of states. were going to win a few. were going to lose a few, but as it looks right now, brother going to get at least a couple of gold medals and a whole passel full of silver medals. >> so this morning romney cannot claim the crushing victories to win over skeptics, but he is amassing delegates. more than 400 so far. thats way ahead of santorum. gingrich and ron paul who failed to win a single state last night. but the race still has a long way t...

To the general election campaign. so as long as santorum is biting at his backside, he cant do that. and thats costing him with independent voters and particularly women within the independent voter category. thats where the election is likely to be decided. and hes hurting in that area. this is why hes so almost desperate to separate himself, get loose so he can pivot and start appealing to those voters. >> lets remember one thing you brought up. santorum says, hey, i won ohio -- hillary clinto...

Point, there may be military action. that in the end may well be the case. were drifting towards a confrontati confrontation. i dont think it has to happen this year, but if the iranians persist, since this is an american interest, military action will have to be taken. >> great to see you, aaron. thank you. >> pleasure. all four republican presidential hopefuls have a different super tuesday strategy. we just have hours to go now. but when you think about this, so many delegates at stake. so ...

were following the breaking news this hour, a tornado outbreak that scraped parts of the midwest this morning, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100. hardest hit, harrisburg, illinois, where at least six people died, including two children. within the last half hour, we learned the tornado was a category ef-4, with winds, get this, up to 170 miles an hour, and as wide as two football fields. in the last hour, the mayor spoke at a grief-stricken news conference. >> we ...

Nominee. >> shepard: mitt romney won it four years ago. both states are more conservative this time around. alicia acuna in denver tonight. romney camp predicting a good showing but not great as they put it. >> right, shep, his camp seems to be trying to keep expectations somewhat low. the campaign did release a memo today entitled the road ahead, a reality check, in which it acknowledges others a few, unlike the other candidates, our campaign hats resources and organization to keep winning over...

>> i think what it says is youre dealing with a state that has only 2 delegates that are proportional allocation. where their nomination is going to be decided, the republican party is a southern party. if you do the delegate math, i count at least 600 southern delegates that i dont believe arithmetic mitt romney can or will win. the path to him getting 1144 delegates before the convention i dont think is a coronation. i dont think thats the case at all. if im newt, im going to go from texas to ...