close to a watch. here s another number you need to know. this is how much money team romney has already spent, put on the air in the state of illinois. add it up together. it s pretty sy. $3.2 million. i can put up a number if you want for how much money santorum has in illinois. let me put it up here very carefully. there it is. zero. nothing yet. so we re going to find out what the image business out of the south means for rick santorum real soon. he s got zip on there. one thing to keep in mind on illinois, i want to jump in on that last section. 2010, in the gubernatorial primary there, bill brady bon with by being the conservative more tea party candidate. if you recall, there was a state senator named kirk dillard who was the establishment republican guy but he got dinged because he appeared in a television ad for a guy named barack obama and that ended up costing him in that primary. but there was a conservative
going we now know it again which is mitt romney doesn t ideologically fit the south. what we don t understand is, you know, does the romney campaign regret sort of playing into the narrative of saying, okay, let s try to do this, let s see if we can win one state and instead they give santorum this perception victory out of a night where delegate-wise, it s close to a watch. here s another number you need to know. this is how much money team romney has already spent, put on the air in the state of illinois. add it up together. it s pretty sy. $3.2 million. i can put up a number if you want for how much money santorum has in illinois. let me put it up here very carefully. there it is. zero. nothing yet. so we re going to find out what the image business out of the south means for rick santorum real soon. he s got zip on there. one thing to keep in mind on illinois, i want to jump in on that last section.
perception victory out of a night where delegate-wise, it s going to be close to watch. here s another number you need to know. this is how much money team romney has already spent, put on the air in the state of illinois. add it up together. it s pretty easy here. $3.2 million. i can put up a number if you want for how much money santorum has in illinois. let me put it up here very carefully. there it is. zero. nothing yet. so we re going to find out what the image business out of the south means for rick santorum real soon. he s got zip on there. one thing to keep in mind on illinois, i want to jump in on that last section. sure. in 2010 in the republican gubernatorial primary there, bill brady won it basically by being the conservative tea party candidate. if you recall, there was a state senator named kirk dillard who was the establishment republican guy but he got dinged because he appeared in a television ad for a guy named barack obama and
here s rick santorum. here s what he had to say earlier this evening when he got the news. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election, and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama, who can take him on on every issue. eugene robinson, what does this night mean for rick santorum? the math, as chuck todd told us in our last segment, really doesn t knock anything out of the park for santorum, but in the image business, he wins big. yeah, it s a great night for rick santorum. he, i mean, it would be an even better night if newt gingrich in his speech had announced he was pulling out of the race. that would have been a really great night for rick santorum. he won in the south. he s not from the south. he s from pennsylvania. as you mentioned, lost his last election there. he and now clearly he is th
here s rick santorum. here s what he had to say earlier this evening when he got the news. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election, and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama, who can take him on on every issue. eugene robinson, what does this night mean for rick santorum? the math, as chuck todd told us in our last segment, really doesn t knock anything out of the park for santorum, but in the image business, he wins big. yeah, it s a great night for rick santorum. he, i mean, it would be an even better night if newt gingrich in his speech had announced he was pulling out of the race. that would have been a really great night for rick santorum. he won in the south. he s not from the south. he s from pennsylvania. as you mentioned, lost his last election there. he and now clearly he is th