indication. and now we can make a call. fox news is projecting that rick santorum will finish third. and rick santorum is going to beat ron paul in the state of south carolina. romney two and santorum third and paul is fourth. interesting he is showing no signs was slowing down. he said he will be in it for a while. he wants his issues discussed in the critical debates. bill hemmer is breaking down the results in real time and has more explanation for what we are seeing. the results are prelimary right now. we have one percent or less than one percent of the vote that we can tabulate right now. based on the exit polling, this seems to be a major concern to the mitt romney campaign that we are about to
out raw vote totals are confusing and you will see the check mark and that is the order they will finish based on the exit polling. brit, something interesting. voters in south carolina believe that newt gingrich is more electable than mitt romney. there is a clear answer. if the voters in south carolina said to us. what they mean by electabilitiability to take on barack bum wum in a debate. there is no doubt who was the strongest debater. you saw this when newt gingrich took on a question from my colleague juan. and hit the thing out of the park and got a standing ovation and similarly on thursday night in the other debate. he took on a question from john cane something his
where rick santorum said for the first time yesterday he was starting to feel a surge and momentum. he admitted earlier in the week he wasn t feeling that way. but really, since he got to the palmetto state, he s been tampering down expectations, saying that this is a state where newt gingrich has played hard for, he doesn t expect to be able to gain that much support. but that they re only looking for momentum going forward, going into florida. rachel? andrew rafrty embedded with the santorum campaign. when we return, our first numbers from the exit polling. a look at who s turning out in south carolina. there s been a tornado watch over number of counties in south carolina, there s been some inclement weather. we ll be looking at the exit polls to find out who braved it. plus nbc news political director chuck todd will be joining us and we ll be hearing from supporters from the campaign. [ male announcer ] wouldn t it be cool
sea . and based on what we are hearing from exit polling. martha: it is interesting. you will boogie upstairs and we ll see you live in 12 minutes an moment, is mitt romney about to seal the deal and will someone like newt gingrich steal the show. we re minutes away from the results and, who would the democrats like to see win. debbie wasserman schultz is my guest, next. across the golden state,
them. there will be a few things that barack obama is going to have to defend every day. and that is 8.5% unemployment and the $15 trillion debt that is going to increase yet again. come on, bill. critical issues as we get into the general election. let s keep in mind, 22 straight months of private sector job growth when barack obama took office the economy was bleeding 750,000 jobs a month and three years later because of his policies and because he rescued the american automobile industry and mitt romney would have let it go back to and those are the issues to be tax rates, 95% of americans. apologize another interruption. it will not end pretty because we ll be cut off and we ll talk again down the road. no problem. debbie wasserman schultz, and we have to run, everybody, bret and megan are up in a moment, four minutes away and we ll get early results based on exit polling with martha and i ll be on the touch-screen, check us out on america s newsroom, 9:00 a.m