terms of numbers. so we asked richard lui to look into that. what did you find out about the conservative vote? chris, good morning to you. as you ve been noting so far, there s a very important voting group and can mitt romney win without the conservative vote? we look at some of our exit polling. the voters call themselves very conservative in our polling are important. when mitt romney won that group of votes, that is when he won the states. so iowa and south carolina, for instance, when we take a look at those two, romney lost the vote of those who called themselves very conservative. he then lost the state there. new hampshire and nevada. when we look at those two, he won the very conservative vote there. he also won the state and the total vote. florida was mixed, though, as it was in its breakdown of conservatives when we look at this perspective so can romney win without the conservative vote is question. the number he needs to win as we know is 1,144 delegates. now the bird
contests in minnesota, missouri and colorado. and there could be a curveball and there could be a curveball coming. captions by vitac www.vitac.com this president has failed. that s why he has to go and we need a good president. it isn t enough to nominate obama light. this could be a moment when the underdogs steal the show. i m not a household name like mitt romney and newt gingrich. sounds like the revolution has already come to minnesota! will there be a dramatic upset in minnesota, colorado or missouri? it s america s choice. mitt romney s been on a winning streak but his momentum could stall again. i will stand for our rights and i ll stand for our values. newt gingrich is angry and determined to hit romney where it hurts. i have never before seen a person who i thought of as a serious candidate for president be that fundamentally dishonest. rick santorum and ron paul may be romney s biggest threats tonight. money is not going to bite presidenc
23%, and paul at 19 and santorum 13%. i am a candidate for president of the united states. i will be a candidate for president of the united states. we will go to tampa. what happens is, every primary day or caucus day, the romney headquarters in boston sends out the rumor they believe i will with draw, which, of course, is their greatest fantasy. i am not going to with draw. i am pretty happy with where we are. i think the contrast between romney and me will be wider and wider and clearer and clearer in the next few weeks. speaker of the house, newt gingrich, joins me again, live this morning. good to see you. good to be with you, david. let s look at some of the exit polling among the true conservatives in nevada. this is how it broke down decidedly for governor romney beating you in all of the categories, and this is supposed
years since the america voted, that state lost 82,000 jobs. the state unemployment rate which is the highest in the country at 12.6%. watch the issue of the economy to be a big deal in these caucuses when we get some exit polling out of nevada tomorrow. also, if you look, martha, at the unemployment rate in nevada, that number had been a lot higher. the service industry was decimated too by this economic downturn. so you see that number coming back down and you wonder whether or not folks in nevada feel better about their prospects or feel like they re still in the hole. martha: looking at a new rasmussen number, 32% think the economy is starting to get better. that clearly is a number that will be so closely watched during the campaign and the administration hoping the null per gets better and better as they move along. let s look at latest stories and what we ve got coming up this morning. we have the latest developments in the murder case of jane bashara. this case is getting weirde
show. you re laughing already. they re doing more than scratching their heads. conservatives are wringing their hands. really? you say you like firing people? now you say he s playing into the worst stereotypes. he has a habit of tripping over his own tongue. and he does on the worst issue. on whether he can connect with middle class americans. the guy s fabulously wealthy, he s admitted paying about 15% in taxes over the past couple of years. these sort of statements as rush limbaugh says plays into the prototypical biases against rich republican candidates. in the exit polling coming out of florida, when the voters were asked which candidate best understands the problems of the average person, mitt romney faired best with 34%. is it sliding off his back? i don t think it s going to slide off his back. you know in south carolina exit polls showed that people there thought that newt gingrich was the most electable in the general election. so you can throw the exit polls a