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Look, this is baseball, not basketball. theres no shot clock in the conclave. they go until they cross that magic threshold, 77 votes. and they feel pressure to do this quickly for two reasons, one, they want to have it wrapped up before holy week begins march 24th. if were still on this platform on saturday, we know what the story is going to be, gridlock you paralysis and infighting. you can imagine the crawl, infighting. and thats the story that the cardinals dont want to tell the world. >> w...

Dolan from new york. one much those four guys wins is anybodys guess. i think all four of them are getting a serious look from the 115 cardinals who will file into the sistine chapel and start picking a hope. as i recall, it wasnt the top guy or the runaway favorite. these things do develop, john. sort of on to the politics of this. do you think there is division over potential candidates and why? >> of course theres division. were talking about 115 guys at the top of their profession, all of ...

Here. in the south, 60 or 70 degrees. we do have a treat in store for us. >> a nice little warmup. its going to be a slushy mess, though. all right. its getting closer. the vote to elect a new pope just days away now. the vatican now says the conclave will begin on tuesday. lets go straight to rome and our senior vatican analyst. even though the conclave starts on tuesday it will take time to hear the verdict. who becomes the new hopope to s that white smoke, right? >> yeah, thats absolutely rig...

Two years. prior to that he was speaker of the house in florida, representing -- representing a district in miami. >> with regard to the percentages, i know you are not a pollster, but they say that mitt romney needs to gain at least 35% of the latino vote to have a chance of this election. >> maybe little too late and i think that number came from george w. bush gaining 35% of the latino vote, the last time he was elected. and so that seems to be kind of a magic threshold and you cant win the g...

Supporters of the tea party or very conservative voters. these are voters where he hasnt done much better than getting roughly a third of them going back and looking at pretty much all of the states weve been through thus far. hes had a rash of endorsements over the past two weeks from some of the leading lights in terms of elected official officials among the tea party. it will be interesting to see if that endorsement and support translates into votes at the polls. jon: the math doesnt look to...