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Samoa tonight. is it possible, john, looking at the delegate problem which the mitt romney campaign is now saying over and over again its delegates, delegates, delegates, not wins, wins, wins, does rick santorum have a delegate problem and can he fix it? >> he has a big delegate problem. he may not be able to get to 1,144 given the way delegates are allocated in the process and the size of mitt romneys lead right now. i understand why mitt romneys campaign is making a math argument. theres also ...

Lot of the democratic base loved barack obama. mitt romneys making a math argument when the best overwhelming number of the base does not want him. and they are rebelling against that argument. theyre like, dont tell us its over, dont tell us math is on your side. this is about conviction and ideology, and youre not going to deny us the chance to register our lack of affection for you, mitt romney, just because you say algebra is on your side. >> last night was significant, especially given newt...

Cant win alabama and mississippi, cant demonstrate he can win outside of his own home state, its hard for him. >> how about rick santorum, how long can he hold on? >> i think he can hold on for quite a while now. everything charlie black says is true. romney had an overwhelmingly victorious night, delegate map is clear but rick santorum has an argument to make because he has a swath of the party, a significant swath of the party whos with him and with him a bit more passionately than mitt romney...

To other countries, to get their hearts fixed. like we had leaders from canada, theres stories all over the papers this morning and of course this sure to come up when youre having this debate, of the horrors that have happened in great britain with their national health care system. but there is, pat, a fundamental difference in belief where the democrats want to spread the safety net as wide as possible. it is a moral fight with them. and for republicans now, its about math. like you said, its...

His back. hes doing the best he can working with what hes got. i think at this point, thats why theyre going to look forward. the terrain, weve written, gets much better for him after this. >> i want to play the what john heilemann said this morning on cnbc regarding this argument that the romney camp is putting up. lets play, john. >> romney is making a math argument when the best overwhelming number of the base does not want him. and theyre rebelling against that argument. like dont tell us th...

Background. >> of course when he was governor of massachusetts, his heavyweight record was 47 out of 50 in job creation. >> lets look at big numbers here. after picking up 20 delegates in puerto rico, nominee has 443 delegates in his column. thats double santorums 184. romney, whose campaign made the math argument for weeks, the candidate himself made the math argument, says hes now not paying attention to the math. >> i know a lot of people will talk about delegates and strategies and math and ...

Direction. mccains probably a hybrid, somewhere between the old east coast moderate republican and the right-wing crazy tea partier, but mitt romney is well beyond the tea party stage. well distant from it. >> yeah. look, i think that the party has changed a great deal over the last four years. and i think that theres a real argument to be made that, you know, mitt romney may be the last person, you know, whos got a fairly moderate record on a number of issues from a state like massachusetts cou...

Sweeps american samoa tonight. is it possible looking at the delegate problem with which the mitt romney campaign is now saying over and over again its delegates, delegates, delegates, not wins, wins, wins, does he have a big delegate problem? >> he has a big delegate problem. he may not be get to 144 given the way theyre allocated and the size of his lead. i understand why mitt romney campaign is making a math argument but theres a political argument santorum can make as he gets closer to a one...

In that direction. mccain is a hybrid between the old east coast moderate republican and the right-wing crazy tea partier. but mitt romney is well beyond the tea party stage. well distant from it. >> yeah. look, i think that the party has changed a great deal over the last four years. i think that theres a real argument to be made that, you know, mitt romney may be the last person, you know, whos got a fairly moderate record on a number of issues from a state like massachusetts could compete as ...

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