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Electorate, evangelical conservatives, two categories overwhelming in support of rick santorum in the earlier campaigns. this looks like it could be a particularly good night for rick santorum. hes actually this evening in wisconsin, a state that votes a week from next tuesday, where hes looking for the next battle to go head-to-head with mitt romney. today santorum was complaining that, in essence, romney, beyond being what santorum calls too moderate, has been talking about process. the delega...

Restructuring of the regulations, things that are the big ticket issues. >> rnc. >> the rnc has got to focus as i hope they are on those small dollar donors. when i was chairman we brought in a million new donors to help set up the 2010 finances. raising $198 million in total out of that pocket because the big donors had moved away. off year election, a lot of them went back with bush. you have to retool the financial operations. in a presidential, the big donors come to play. the small donors a...

>> i think howards right about that part of it, is certainly part of the game plan. but two quick things. the president is going out there campaigning now because hes getting hurt politically by the numbers on gas prices. number two, romneys damned if he does and damned if he doesnt. youre telling him hes got to go out there and be direct, and when he is, people are saying, why are you so direct? so hes got to figure out and be comfortable with himself and do his thing and work his way through t...

Plan. two quick things. the president is going out there campaigning now because hes getting politically hurt on the numbers on gas prices. romney is damned if he does and damned if he doesnt. he has to go out there and be direct and when he is, people are saying, why are you so direct? he has to be comfortable with himself and do his thing and work his way through the nomination process. the other two guys arent going away. were batting down for it. >> we like a good fight here at "hardball." w...

The president is going out there campaigning now because hes getting hurt politically by the numbers on gas prices. number two, romneys damned if he does and damned if he doesnt. youre telling him hes got to go out there and be direct, and when he is, people are saying, why are you so direct? so hes got to figure out and be comfortable with himself and do his thing and work his way through this nomination process. the other two guys arent going away. this is going to be a slog, as you know, chri...

Speed up the process. >> santorum is the guy who mitt isnt. hes not the kind of stiff cut upper lip guy that mitt romney seems to be on the campaign trail. it gives people a viable alternative that they will want to turn to and makes more problems for -- im so lost. >> he was dancing late last night too. >> apparently thats the problem. too many happy feet. it gives mitt romney some problems. it highlights what hes not. thats the bottom line. >> john, thinking of the president and the jobs numbe...

Somebody i identify with closely on the issue, thats when conservative and ivevangelical base. were at this place now where mitt romney is on this march to the nomination. still very much the likely nominee. but hes going to have to go through the motions of this process now, through a protracted nomination process, which has not been kind to his general election prospects. the key story now is how he navigates needing to begin this general election conversation more earnestly with the president...

Jenna. jenna: well see what happens in georgia. a lot of questions for the way forward for newt gingrich and the republican party overall. thank you very much, john roberts in georgia today. jon: hear is the question everyone seems to be asking. will super tuesday decide the gop nomination or will this race go on? joining us now, reince priebus, chairman of the republican national committee. i know youre a neutral observer here not picking winners but are you predicting winners? >> no im not pre...

Is because people are getting tired it am not that the elections have taken so long. but they are starting now the day after the election of the last president of the united states. people are getting worn out it many only march. we have a long ways to go here. everybody agrees all the candidates are in fact getting better at this point in time. but you look at mr, from what the president said today in his press conference he may be what ronald reagan was to jimmy carter mitt romney may be to ba...

Or you want to hear, but im going to talk straight to the american people. >> she has that something. >> actually, got a screen of the real "game change." the movie on hbo is irresistible. its fabulous. now for tonights big number. do any of these words come to mind when you think about how the republican nomination process has gone so far? uninspiring, painful, discouraged, how about the lesser of two evils? if you answered yes to these opinions, join the club. according to the new nbc/"wall st...