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polls. we have a great political panel. later in the show will israel attack iran? my guest says yes. he is a very well connected israeli reporter. youll want to hear what he has to say. then the u.s. tax code is 70,000 pages long. do either president obama or mitt romney have good ideas for reforming it? nope. thats what a long-time republican says. ill talk to him. also, chinas growth is fueling a fair portion of the global economy. what happens if that growth slows down? well explor...

Because while he could win it, it would be too ugly. >> willie, its hard to comprehend how weak this field is. >> its amazing, if they leave romney, theyre not going to come around to santorum. which leaves us with whom? who are the two or three people who could actually get into the race? >> theres the fabulous four, theres four of them getting phone calls all the time now. chris christie. jeb bush, paul ryan. those people getting phone calls on almost a daily basis, asking them to consider get...

The electorates in this contest were very conservative. they find the fire of rick santorum on social issues more appealing than mitt romneys more dry and less emotional appeal. but he also had an economic message. and that power of a social conservative message and a more blue-collar economic message in these states where romney didnt spend a lot of money, where he didnt compete was powerful. the question, obviously, is, can santorum go forward? but again, theres no doubt. as long as gay marria...

Romney with some difficulty down the road? >> well, i think theres two things to say about that. one is look, we were all saying after florida and after nevada, he was unifying the party, energizing the base, winning big states with conservative electorates. he spent money, went negative on his opposition, he campaigned hard and won those states. he didnt do it in the three states last night. the other thing to say about it is, we still have two conservative alternatives to romney in this race a...

Santorum. and my guess is, if i were senator santorum, i would not get out of this race. i think i would stay in and wait to see wants. but i dont think, and i dont -- and by the way, i mean, the speaker can talk all he wants about what he thinks is going to happen with the ron paul or santorum vote, but theyre not going anywhere. i think these are our four candidates and theyre going to be our four candidates for a while going forward. >> i think they are absolutely listening to what youre sayi...

good evening, again, youre watching a special edition of ac 360, primary coverage. >> winner take all. and tonight, the big winner in florida by a big margin, mitt romney. >> mitt romney, floridas choice. a win that makes him the front runner again. >> a competitive primary doesnt divide us. it prepares us, and we will win. >> a new setback for newt gingrich and his roller coaster campaign. >> we are going to contest every place and were going to win, and we will be in tampa as the nom...

with a double-digit lead over newt gingrich. part of his advantage comes from early voter who is went his way more than 50% of the time. heres a reaction from gingrich, just a short time ago. >> mr. speaker, do you still see a path to the nomination? >> of course. >> how? >> unify the conservatives, you win the delegates, and then you have the nomination. >> freshman florida senator marco rubio is a very popular man these days. hes been mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice ...

Started pounding them right away. gingrich has vulnerabilities. some of the ads may not be fair but they are not false and the result is what you have seen. gingrich is vulnerable. i dont think gingrich if he loses even by double digits in florida is dead yet. he is a wiley, resourceful, very bright guy who has shown the ability to -- shown the perseverance on the ability to recover and it wont be over yet. >> chris: lets hope not as political pundits and reporters. a.b., there are lot of factor...

Yet. >> chris: lets hope not as political pundits and reporters. a.b., there are lot of factors. one is you are talking about two different electorates. south carolina is more conservative than florida. evangelicals make up 60 percent of the gop vote and in florida 0% of the vote and the debates went very different. how do you weigh what happened the difference between south carolina and florida? >> a combination of the romney campaign getting its act together after having poor responses to the ...

Yet. >> chris: lets hope not, as political c pundits and reporte. a.b., there are a lot of factors. one of them is, youre talk being two different lectorates, south carolina is more conservative than florida. in south carolina, evangelicals make up 60% of the gop vote. in florida, 40% of the vote. and as brit pointed out, the debates went very different. t how do you weigh whatser happened, the difference between south carolina and florida? >> i think it really is a combination of the romney s c...