locked because the economy is so important to the american people. i want to play the president s remarks this time yesterday where he refers to the hard work that he and the first lady faced, climbing the ladder of life and he refers to silver spoons. let me play that. somebody gave me an education. i was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. michelle wasn t. but somebody gave us a chance. so steve, romney oxley taking issue with that saying basically, that people are blaming him for his father s success but he is a self-made man here. you are a service. you re not a fan of mitt romney. will this silver spoon battle stick on him? with the president, if he is alluding to romney, if that s a veiled shot at romney, what he is alluding to is the exit polling data in the republican presidential primary. that consistently when he had to
november? that s an interesting question, alex. if you look at the exit polling data, rick santorum carried every category with the exception of those making over $200,000 and those who say that religion is not important to them. that s pretty significant. what else is happening as you ve been talking about how this primary is going on longer, people are becoming very committed to their candidate. one of the polling questions asked whether or not people would be supportive of mitt romney, santorum voters. 63% said they would not be in favor of mitt romney. so i think he s going to have some difficulty closing this gap that s been widening with conservative voters. and i wonder actually if conservative voters elsewhere in the country are saying i can vote for rick santorum? i have a question for you. there are a lot of conservatives who feel the more time the republican field spends talking
states. he says he s staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everything tells you it s still romney over the long hall into may and june. but you know what? our politics have been outside the rules. we elected our first african-american president. the tea party movement came out of nowhere. so let s watch. santorum s going to puerto rico. then we have a big primary in illinois. back to the midwest where if you look at the demographics, should be a romney state. puerto rico is this coming sunday. huge. and then illinois is a week from now on tuesday. i think i need to go to cover it. in fairness to mitt romney, he s still away head in the delegate count. he s got more than all of the other candidates combined so far. and this isn t the way they wanted it to be right now. if they do go across the finish line, they re going to crawl across the finish lin
let me tell you, i believe the republican party has done a good job in reaching out to the hispanic community, however we need to do more. it is not about the faces that actually are going to be seen in our ticket in november. it s about the values that will be behind those faces. the hispanic community share many values with the republican party. we have to stress those rarlz f regardless of who appears on our ticket. do you like the idea of a vice presidential ticket? i love my job and i want to stay here if i can and i enjoy what i m doing. i look forward to another four years continuing to turn a corner here and make our economy grow. i want to work with the president that will be working hand in hand with us to guarantee that the security we need in the region will assist us in creating jobs. very diplomatic answer. good politician. i love puerto rico and i love san juan. stay with us. we will be talking down the road. appreciate you joining us. my pleasure. yo
alabama and hopefully the folks in mississippi did we did? i guess. how happy is he? how happy is his family? back with us right now, our expert cnn team. john, this is a very significant night for rick santorum. just when so many of the so-called experts were saying romney had it all but done, not is fast. could romney lock it up or another revival for newt gingrich. he loses in the two south states. he says he s staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everything tells you it s still romney over the long hall into may and june. but you know what? our politics have been outside the rules. we elected our first african-american president. the tea party movement came out of nowhere. so let s watch. santorum s going to puerto rico. then we have a big primary in illinois. back to the midwest where if you look at the demographics, should be a romney state. puer