and the two frontrunners in a bitter duel with a lot to prove and a lot to lose. tonight mitt romney s toughest test since rick santorum s surge. if you want a fiscal conservative, you can t vote for rick santorum because he s not. does the word hypocrisy come to mind? it s a two-state showdown with one frontrunner trying to avoid an embarrassing defeat. governor romney is discovering you cannot take your home state for granted. will romney prove his staying power or will he suffer a crippling setback in michigan or arizona? it s america s choice. santorum climbed his way to the top. now he wants to win a valuable prize. the state where romney was born and raised. it s laughable that governor romney suggests that i am not a conservative. romney is waging a fierce battle, in two states that should have been shoes in. senator santorum hasn t been as carefully viewed by the american public as have the others. the two leaders struggling to erase voters do
volatile issue. catholics make up about 27% of the electorate in 2008. that roughly when you look at exit poll data, that means about 35 million catholic voters. president, he carried 54%. beat john mccain by 55 points but jay carney was playing a balancing act. they don t want to lose it. between the religion beliefs and increasing access to important services we will continue to work closely with religious groups during this transitional period to discuss their concerns. reporter: covering contraception could mean the morning after drug. that opens the door to abortion into this controversy, that is how it could get more intense. shep: ed henry at the white house, don t forget it s the economy and we have trumps in europe. unemployment has hitter a record high. one of over ten persons ended 2011 out of work across the 17 countries using the euro.
crucial state this november. winner take all in the general election and winner take all for mitt romney tonight. mitt romney. florida s choice. a win that helped him look like the front runner again. a competitive primary does not divide us. it prepares us and we will win. a new setback for newt gingrich and his roller coaster campaign. we re going to contest every place and we re going to win, and we will be in tampa as the nominee. four candidates with four contests behind hem, with the fight to the nomination is just beginning. the votes are in. florida has spoken, and now the campaign goes west. the campaign does head west, but the story tonight is what happened in the east in florida. if you re just joining us, welcome to our ac 360 special primary coverage. live until midnight. after wild swings in the polls, withering attack ads, million s spent by the campaigns and super pacs as well, romney has beaten gingrich. romney claimed victory and looked ahead t
good evening, again, you re 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, florida s choice. a win that makes him the front runner again. a competitive primary doesn t 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 we re going to win, and we will be in tampa as the nominees. four candidates with the fight for the nomination just beginning. the votes are in, florida has spoken. and now the campaign goes west. and again, welcome. kwet 360 is live tonight, all the way to the midnight hour. breaking down the results i think florida did something very important coming on top of south carolina. it s now clear that this will be a two-person race between the conservative leader, newt gingrich, and the massachusetts moderate. a few months ago, there were how
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