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Look, we know that you have concerns, you have issues. take the issue of education. it was republicans in the state senate who pushed back on governor corbett and said this is not acceptable. people i represent in urban and rural and suburban pennsylvania want to be able to have their kids go to college without huge debt. we have great universities. its one of our advantages in pennsylvania. and they pushed back and only cut 20%. but without that pushback, you know, we would have seen a cut of 5...

Law under george bush. this is not easy to do in the environment that im in. but in harrisburg, ive served in harrisburg a number of years ago, for 14 years. and what you need to say is, look, we know that you have concerns, you have issues. take the issue of education. it was republicans in the state senate who pushed back on governor corbett and said this is not acceptable. people i represent in urban and rural and suburban pennsylvania want to be able to have their kids go to college without ...

Rural and suburban pennsylvania want to be able to have their kids go to college without huge debt. we have great universities. its one of our advantages in pennsylvania. and they pushed back and only cut 20%. but without that pushback, you know, we would have seen a cut of 50%. so i believe that i can talk to people outside of harrisburg, talk to people across pennsylvania and really bring them together too, but work with the legislature to get things done. >> if you were elected governor, youd...

the next contests. >> we will compete everywhere. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure -- to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama who can take him on on every issue. >> all right. lets take a closer look at the numbers in both states. you can see how tight this race was. it took awhile at cnn ...

Road for rick santorum, but is the story going to be tonight how close of a second he can make it to mitt romney? >> reporter: well, well have to see how it unfolds. what has been a surprise is the sort of unexpected strength of mitt romney and in talking to voters in the state of alabama, especially yesterday, they talked to us about liking really all three dominant candidates here. romney, santorum and gingrich. and as that one voter whose comments you just played talked about the whole electa...

Get apologies, lets go to the other side of the ledger and look at hamid karzais behavior, the afghan governments behavior, their militarys behavior, their police behavior and lets have them then reconcile that back to us. i dont think he needed to do it and shouldnt have done it after the military had already apologized. >> if mitt romney gets the nomination and comes calling to you for v.p., is the answer yes? >> the answer is im not going to be considering that and ive taken myself off the li...

arizona. youre in "the situation room." they are numbers that are making mitt romney nervous. they are certainly catching the attention of the obama re-election campaign. were talking about the latest polls that show rick santorum at the front of the republican presidential pack. look at that gallup tracking poll number that has santorum ten points aheads of romney nationally among registered republicans. even with the sampling error, santorum is the frontrunner in this poll. but that ...

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Someone that does have the determination and record to take on barack obama. gregg: issues as you just described thems might that alienate many moderate, key independents, the swing voters that dictate general elections? >> no. what were seeing as you noted with the growing momentum with the rick santorum campaign people are starting to recognize that mitt romney is a moderate that is not going to be able to take on barack obama. gregg: yeah. >> rick san is is winning over independents. winning ...

Theyre not -- romney has not done anything yet. we keep talking about this, he hasnt done anything yet to rally conservatives to his cause outside of trying to use the electability card. and it clearly is not enough. how much evidence does romney need to have out there that thats not enough? its enough if its a one-state night and you can have newt gingrich as your opponent. he can do that every once in a while, but its not enough for the long haul here. and i think thats got to be the take away...