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Will maybe rick santorum isnt everything hes cracked up to be. remember the delegate math is close to determinative. the way hes staying in the race is saying im the real conservative, romney isnt. the romney team is doing everything they can do to say is this guy really conservative? santorum was from pennsylvania. he also endorsed arlen specter in a very contested and very idealogical primary in 2004 that specter beat pat toomey narrowly in. so hes doing -- he is being a good team player, but ...

Done the mechanical homework you need to do to put yourself in a position to be competitive nonetheless its going to be a close election. the way returns will come in tonight, cook county in the northern part of the state first and then down state will trickle in. you could see a big lead early for romney but it could be a close race. nonetheless, the math going forward a lot of talk about delegate math, is really challenging for gingrich and for santorum. the race goes to louisiana, theres a pr...

Thinks he has a chance to walk away as the nominee. maybe does he. >> chuck todd, give us a little bit of the arguments were going to hear about delegate math. we talked about this a little bit last night. nobody really knows how many delegates these people have at this point. >> were actually trying to find -- [ inaudible ] >> overallocated caucuses and a lot of other media outlets are doing that. the way the caucuses work on this republican side is a lot different than the democrats do. and mo...

Focused on one thing, delegates. while he lost the votes, he was behind the scenes made sure he hadnt lost in delegates. even though mitt romney lost alabama and mississippi, here is a message from his campaign today. "tuesdays results actually increased governor romneys delegate lead. opponents moves closer to their date of mathematical elimination." that sounds so final, doesnt it? this is a delegate fight now. when barack obama was in the midst of his own delegate fight he was prepared for it...

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Thats one part of it. he cant get shut out. the other part of it, and i think what you saw him do during his victory speech on tuesday night, what you saw in a memo released by his campaign that you referenced earlier is, focus on obama. act as though the race is over. dont talk about your rivals. focus on president obama, the economy. i talked to mark mckinnon, who i know was on your show yesterday, andrea, and i asked him what romney should do going forward. and he said, number one, obama. num...

Important, what are you watching for? look, im obsessed with the delegate math, we ought to keep going there. look at where we are in delegates. in massachusetts, we know that there were 38 delegates available, we have called it, its likely we already awarded him 23, i can tell you this, hes likely to get up to at least 34 here, a fun little slider we can do. we wont give him all yet, will probably get to 34, at minimum. probably all of them. there is a chance that santorum would get 4, if he ...

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