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day, so lets actually take a closer look at that mississippi vote. mississippi has 82 counties, had a total of 40 delegates up for grabs. what youre looking at is how mississippi voted last night. all of the counties in purple, those are rick santorum counties. all the counties in green, mitt romney. so yeah, close race, but santorum took it. it was clear he had more votes, he had more counties and the end result proved it. 13 delegates for rick santorum, 12 for mitt romney. poor mitt ...

grabs. what youre looking at is how mississippi voted last night. all of the counties in purple, those are rick santorum counties. all the counties in green, mitt romney. so yeah, close race, but santorum took it. it was clear he had more votes, he had more counties and the end result proved it. 13 delegates for rick santorum, 12 for mitt romney. poor mitt romney. except that wasnt really the end result in mississippi. it might be a win for mitt romney. he got one more vote, it was not...

mississippi has 82 counties, had a total of 40 delegates up for grabs. what youre looking at is how mississippi voted last night. all of the counties in purple, those are rick santorum counties. all the counties in green, mitt romney. so yeah, close race, but santorum took it. it was clear he had more votes, he had more counties and the end result proved it. 13 delegates for rick santorum, 12 for mitt romney. poor mitt romney. except that wasnt really the end result in mississippi. it ...

closer look at that mississippi vote. mississippi has 82 counties, had a total of 40 delegates up for grabs. what youre looking at is how mississippi voted last night. all of the counties in purple, those are rick santorum counties. all the counties in green, mitt romney. so yeah, close race, but santorum took it. it was clear he had more votes, he had more counties and the end result proved it. 13 delegates for rick santorum, 12 for mitt romney. poor mitt romney. except that wasnt rea...

Whats funny, ed, you brought up delegates, the reason romney spent extra time in alabama than mississippi was because second place in alabama gets you more delegates than third place does where there isnt that same penalty for third place in mississippi. >> hes playing the numbers game. >> absolutely. >> playing percentages, the numbers game we see the delegate numbers on the board already. brings me to santorum, is there any way for santorum or gingrich to close the gap tonight? its down to the...

I want to -- i like to show it off. there it is. those are the two states. lets see. florida, loss. that touches georgia. alabama, loss. that touches georgia. tennessee, loss. that touches georgia. hes won in three in states that touch georgia. were not even talking about the rest of the deep south. so he is right now, look, it is tough. what are the different levels of -- when youre in mourning or in grief, or whatever it is? hes in the different stages at this point. obviously hes not at accep...

In georgia because of the home state advantage and in south carolina because he took on the media. he hasnt broke out of the contiguous mass in the southeast, at the cant extend it to alabama, he cant get any further out of there, so my bet is if he cant get in alabama his best chance in the universe, he has no where else to go. this is where santorum is correct, this guy cant travel. whereas, santorum, whatever you think about him, whatever anybody thinks about him, he has the ability to do ver...

I want to go over a few exit poll numbers. heres all you really need to know. this is the perception of romney on ideology. look at that. half the voters both in alabama and mississippi just believe mitt romney wasnt conservative enough. right? look at these. about right, 27%, what was mitt romneys percentage in alabama? 28%. 34% in mississippi. guess what? we know these exit poll numbers were a little bit tilted toward romney. when we reweight the actual vote, bet you that dials down a little b...

This is the perception of romney on ideology. half the voters both in alabama and mississippi just believe mitt romney wasnt conservative enough. right? look at these. about right, 27%, what was mitt romneys percentage in alabama? 28%. 34 in mississippi, guess what, we know the exit poll numbers were a little bit tilted toward romney. when we reweight the actual vote, bet you that dials down a bit. look at santorum ideology, 53% essentially, 53 in alabama, 49% in mississippi. call him about righ...

That touches georgia. tennessee, loss. that touches georgia. hes won in three in states that touch georgia. were not even talking about the rest of the deep south. so he is right now, look, it is tough. what are the different levels of -- when youre in mourning or in grief or whatever it is? hes in the different stages at this point. obviously hes not at acceptance yet. >> theres some denial going on. no doubt. >> maybe that comes tomorrow morning when he wakes up and realizes that all of us hav...