candidate, it was florida, it was newt gingrich who beat romney by double digits among the conservative voters and strong tea party supporters. can romney win a general election without passion in the base? even those who supported romney last night were luke warm. 41% of voters who picked romney said they liked him with reservation. again, this is part of the retooling process romney still has to do. now, romney made programs the most honest statement we ll hear from any candidate this year when he said, i won by enough. a win is a win. but though he tried to rio fuss his attention by the president and the economy he did it with not a lot of optimism. four years ago we warned that the presidency was no place for on-the-job training. well, today we have the economy to prove it, all right? you think he deserves a second term, he says we can t wait, to which i say, oh, yes we can. romney s caution has been a problem. rush limbaugh is one conservative who has already picked up on romn
ron paul 12% and gingrich in single digits by the way at 7%. arizona, romney picked up a decisive win, 47-27. but in many ways romney s michigan victory was simply another snapshot of the story of the season for him. his strength is with moderates, less conservative voters and he still struggles with the base of the party. romney ran strong e among older more affluent and better educated republicans. he captured almost half of those with household incomes over $100,000 and those 65 and older as well as college graduates. overall, 61% of voters said romney was most likely to beat obama, only 24% said santorum was more electable, but even though romney crushed him on that score, he hasn t closed the deal with the base of the party. voters who identify themselves as very conservative, they chose santorum over romney by 14 points, 50-36, and santorum won strong supporters of the tea party, 45-37. we ve seen this story before with a different anti-romney
we have tremendous especially in terms of natural gas. the natural gas, we are the saudi arabia plus ten or times ten of natural gas. i don t understand why we re not doing more to take it out. neil: big primary night in michigan, argument seems to be, just talked to mitt romney a few minutes ago, he has got to win michigan. he acknowledges but if he doesn t, do you think he is in trouble? he a good man. he understands what china is doing to this country better than anybody else in terms of running. he has been very strong. you talk about opec, he gets the opec situation and will do something about it. it can happen well for this country. i hope he wins. if he doesn t win, it would definitely not be a good thing, not for the congress or the republican party.
presumptive front runner who is well funded with a national organization. you need the big mo coming out of tomorrow s election so you can go into the super tuesday states and add the consequences and the hill gets much steeper. megyn: even though we are on talking about handful of delegates. wins matter. just ask rick santorum who at the beginning of february was nowhere near the front runner and winds up winning colorado, minnesota and so on. then he catapults to the top of the national leaderboard which by the way even though he s behind web s still atop the leaderboard on by a little bit. but he s still at the top, 33% to mitt romney 29% and change. so wins matter. if he doesn t win michigan or arizona, hurts him a little bit going into super tuesday arguably. it looks bad in arizona.
the hillary clinton campaign, morris. do you think at this point with that and the fact that his poll numbers are dropping that rick santorum is raising more money and he could be in cash trouble? well, santorum needs to raise money, he needs wins in order to generate funds. and that s very challenging. and you want to make sure you have enough cash on hand. but he s desperate, doing hand to mouth. he s doing okay right now given he swept those three states, but it s going to be challenging going forward for him. if he doesn t win, he doesn t have any money and that s not the situation you want to be in when you have a tough battle ahead. what about mitt romney? what do you think about that? we re looking at a campaign that was so well planned, but what they didn t plan for was the kind of challenge after challenge after challenge they found and the amount of money they ve had to spend already. yeah, there s no question that the romney campaign was probably not expecting it to go