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Rate and broaden the base of taxation. its done in 1986 by ronald agan and tip oneil in bipartisan way. what the economists right, left or center may have to do. we may have different opinions how to do it. but they believe it will result in the economic growth. thats why romney doing that will create 7 million new jobs. pro-growth policy. >> bret: dont you think they are making some headway in saying well, what exactly are you going to take off the table? mortgage deduction? charitable deductio...

Mitt romney has. theyre flying by the seat of their pants. they have smart people who have worked in politics. they just dont have the ammunition behind them. i think they dont know for sure. but i do think that they feel theyve gotten enough out tonight, north dakota to go with tennessee and oklahoma that they can go fight in the south next week, go to alabama and mississippi, get on television and try to make mitt romney prove that he deserves the nomination of a party that is founded on conse...

Hes been talking to the santorum campaign specifically about ohio. we dont know who has won. how does the santorum campaign feel about what theyre seeing so far in terms of results? >> well, rachel, i just got off the phone with rick santorums campaign manage r whos in stubenville in the gymnasium and the candidate just got done speaking. theyre upstairs looking at their computer screens. what he told me is that they are waiting for some of their strong votes to come in, especially from counties...

Make a bigger deal out of this thing that the candidate mentioned in the speech tonight, which is that this long process, it being drawn out is making him stronger. is it implicitly rebutting the allegation that the primary campaign is making for a weaker general election? but also sort of making the case that have a lot of candidates banging around in this primary, its a good thing for republicans. are they sticking with that? is that part of their central message right now because they dont wa...

About half the vote in cuyahoga is in, romney leads by almost 9,000 votes in that county. hes got to do better if theyre counting on cuyahoga to do it. this race is clearly going to go on, even if mitt romney manages to win ohio. i also talked to the santorum strategist tonight. they said they have a million dollars cash on hand, theyre beginning to buy tv time tomorrow in kansas, alabama and mississippi. having won in the south, having competed on near even terms in ohio. maybe even winning ohi...

Would be bad for the republicans. we are getting a prolonged process. do you still think it will be bad for republicans and great for liberals such as yourself. >> i said my friends were doing that. i actually didnt vote, because im prohibited biologically from voting for a republican, i was unable to vote that day. i think whats happening tonight, you know, everybody keeps saying, romneys going to be it, romneys going to be it, every time we have a night like this -- and if he loses ohio, i thi...

Gap from about 15,000 down. im interested to hear the candidates talk about the silver medal analogy. im making that up. you win or you lose, i think coming down to this couple thousand votes is if rick santorum prevails here, it really resets the race in a fundamental way. if mitt romney prevails, i think its a close race, but at the end of the day, i think hes got a head of steam -- >> is that true even if it ends up being a draw, very close in ohio? or does the win make a difference? >> norgs...

Youve been explaining all night. theyre going for a psychological win with here in a popular vote victory. those are his people in stubenville. they also concede looking at the map, that some of romneys key areas have not fully recorded yet. mike biendo told me a few minutes ago, i didnt think we could hold this thing, but we might be able to hold it. and as youre watching the same numbers im watching, santorum is clinging to a 10,000 to 13,000 vote lead there. mike said to me, somewhat surprise...

Exit polls, and thats one of the funny things were seeing tonight. if santorum turns out to be underreported. >> i want to show our map here, this is all the winning states from everything weve had so far. theres a little bit of a problem here for mitt romney if he doesnt get ohio. look at where his power -- he can win in new england, he can win by default in virginia, he can win where theres large mormon populations and in a state he grew up in. what if he cant win anywhere else? this is an iss...

And all the time, the longer this goes on, people become less interested in liking him, and his favor eeblt rate drops. so mitt romney is the prince charles of the republican nomination. >> martin, that is a gob smacking analogy. are there lessons from prince charles for what mitt romney should do so he can be queen some day? >> the prince of wales ended up being divorced and tragically princess diana died and hes remarried and invested his life in charities, hes one of the wealthiest people in ...