you know this if you watch games. there s mormons that have been helpful for romney. that s nine delegates. right now we re estimating 27 delegates out of alabama and mississippi total for santorum. we ve got it looks like 21 out of alabama and mississippi for romney. throw in the nine there, then it s 37, 30. then hawaii. so anywhere, the best-case scenario for santorum is he will net all of five or six delegates total on mitt romney tonight. so he s got all of this perception victory, but on the delegate count, and you re going to hear a lot of this from the romney folks, because of what s going on in the pacific, he is actually going to the amount of delegates that santorum nets in trying to catch up and, remember, we has to win some 65% of remaining delegates left in order to get to 1,144. he s going to net four or five. he doesn t really move his percentage. that s the problem. this was about perception. i want to go over a few exit poll numbers. here s all you really need to
from vermont. ohio is going to close at 7:30 eastern time. already getting a peek at what s making up the mix there. very interesting data coming. in this thing is far from over, shep. shepard: far from over, martha. you are dead right on that. we will come back to you as we get more poll numbers out o. first, we are waiting to call virginia. which is just two candidates, mitt romney and ron paul. still no decision there. the polls have been closed for 13 minutes. same thing with vermont. which is as she mentioned right next door to mitt romney s whole state. let s bring the whole gang in. chris wallace is with us from fox news sunday. chief political correspondent carl cammeron is here as well. i believe martha is sticking around as well. chris, what else sticks out for you at this moment? chris: well, i mean, as i say, georgia is not a surprise. it was it s very important now because it will probably keep newt gingrich in this race and continue to divide the conservative, the
place everybody thought we would be immediately to call just based on the exit poll numbers was virginia for mitt romney. there was a in the last wave of exit poll data received by our decision desk and decision desks elsewhere it showed the race within low single digits. so everybody held off right thing to do under the circumstances. and then as the vote total began to come in and everybody had a chance to look at it the call was made 10 past 7:00. we will see how the vote turns out. what i do think is happening, megyn, in the state of virginia and perhaps elsewhere as well, vermont perhaps is that the non-romney vote is a protest vote. a protest in virginia against the fact that the other two weren t on the ballot. indeed some the other two were encouraging people to get out and vote for ron paul to try to deny romney all the delegates or as many delegates as possible. i think we may have seen the same thing in vermont as well. bret: getting word that newt gingrich will speak in 3
bluster, big talk, and beating the drums of war with iraq. and rush limbaugh inc., a contract worth hundreds of millions as more advertisers jump the ship, as he put his own empire at risk? i m wolf blitzer at the cnn election center. you re in the situation room. it s called super tuesday for a reason. even in this year s slimmed down version 1/3 gop contests in ten states today. more than all the primaries and three of then last week, certainly romney could leave some of the but the most important prize today is ohio. our latest cnn poll shows romney is neck and neck with rick santorum who needs a big day of his own. let s go straight to jim acosta. he s on the scene for us in ohio. what s the latest there, jim? reporter: wolf, ohio mike the marquee state in the super tuesday states up for grabs, but you wouldn t know it. none of the candidates were out in the state looking for votes, but rick santorum will be in steubenville, ohio later tonight with the hope th
you so much. thank you. time to go back to our panel. juan williams, and the guys. we still can t make this call in michigan, but looking into some of those exit poll numbers, what strikes you, steve? we heard from karl and joe, what strikes you? i think the points they were making about romney how romney did with strong conservative voters and strong supporters of the tea party, he seems to have shown some progress. the numbers he has posted there, mid-30s, are more consistent with the numbers he posted with exit policy in florida and new hampshire where he did well and not like the ones he got in iowa and south carolina where he didn t do well. what is interesting about that, he clearly made a concerted effort to go after tea party voters in michigan. he spent time to talk to tea party voters on talk radio in michigan and spoke thursday night in milford, michigan and