some very conservative may not be in my camp but they will be when i become the nominee. exit polling romney is probably correct, 91% of primary voters said they would definitely or probably vote for the eventual republican nominee but he has had a hard time locking this up. is this going to continue or do you see him peeling off the more conservative voters? oh it will continue for a while. i think core republican voters at this point are the political equivalent of romney s dog shamus, strapped to the top of the car, car heading toward tampa. if i can put it this way, they may rain on the parade occasionally but because of a couple of factors, it seems to me romney will be the nominee. one is the governor said, newt gingrich stays there, as you said he draws votes away. number two, this is particularly ironic, the romney safety net is rapidly becoming voters, primary voters in blue states like
exit polling romney is probably correct, 91% of primary voters said they would definitely or probably vote for the eventual republican nominee but he has had a hard time locking this up. is this going to continue or do you see him peeling off the more conservative voters? oh it will continue for a while. i think core republican voters at this point are the political equivalent of romney s dog shamus, strapped to the top of the car, car heading toward tampa. if i can put it this way, they may rain on the parade occasionally but because of a couple of factors, it seems to me romney will be the nominee. one is the governor said, newt gingrich stays there, as you said he draws votes away. number two, this is particularly ironic, the romney safety net is rapidly becoming voters, primary voters in blue states like illinois, california and new york, which he can t possibly
i won the conservative vote, some very conservative may not be in my camp but they will be when i become the nominee. exit polling romney is probably correct, 91% of primary voters said they would definitely or probably vote for the eventual republican nominee but he has had a hard time locking this up. is this going to continue or do you see him peeling off the more conservative voters? oh it will continue for a while. i think core republican voters at this point are the political equivalent of romney s dog shamus, strapped to the top of the car, car heading toward tampa. if i can put it this way, they may rain on the parade occasionally but because of a couple of factors, it seems to me romney will be the nominee. one is the governor said, newt gingrich stays there, as you said he draws votes away. number two, this is particularly ironic, the romney safety net is rapidly becoming voters, primary
in a head to head match-up, people will look at newt gingrich and rick santorum and newt gingriching is clearly going to outshine santorum on those comparisons. when you look at the exit polling from last night, even though people voted for santorum, they still believe romney, not gingrich has the best ability to beat president obama, not gingrich here. well, again, more scrutiny on santorum as a person who may be the nominee. rick santorum was a leader in the senate. he was the third most powerful person in the senate. it was the risk santorum republicans that led the republican party to the worst defeat in the 2006 they suffered since watergate. he was partially responsible for that. we lost the congress. nancy pelosi, harry reid were the result. it set the stage for the election of president obama. in 2012, he is basically asking the republican party for a mulligan on losing the congressional majorities. they took balanced budgets and didn t produce a single budget. they took a
today s voters for a photo i.d. between november when they changed the law and today the mississippi legislature has not passed the rules that would allow this new i.d. requirement to take effect. state lawmakers have not implemented the new voting restriction in times to effect today s voting. they seem to be in no hurry to get the voting restrictions passed in time for today s republican presidential primary. we do not have the final numbers yet, but early exit polling today from nbc showed that 97% of the turnout for mississippi s republican primary was white. the state is almost 40% african-american, but nearly every voter today was white. so there s no need to make it harder to vote for today s election. no rush. here is the deadline mississippi republicans say matters. they want the voting rules tightened up in their state in time for the general election, the one for president in november, the republican secretary of state in mississippi saying he hopes the new rules will be rea