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Gingrich and santorum and hope his voters are going to support him overwhelmingly which he needs to the fall. >> shepard: he wants newt gingrich out of this race. he has said it his campaign has said it at least. without super pacs, the casino magnet who is funding his campaign he would have been gone a long time ago. >> both santorum and gingrich would have been gone. neither have campaigns or real resources at the end of the day gingrich loves the limelight. why should he go away. he is not go...

Popular vote victory, he still is in jeopardy of not winning the actual delegates themselves, shep. >> shepard: all right, carl, thanks very much. i want to get to ed rollins now. the polls closed in ohio just about two and a half minutes from now and we will go there. ed rollins a republic strategist, long time friend of the program and smart guy within the republic establishment who really pulls no punches and sets it straight. we were talking during the commercial break just a moment ago abou...

Those two different scenarios lend two different political relates. one is the republic candidates keep fighting with each other and leave each other battered and bruised as they have been over the last few weeks. the other is mitt romney gets the 200 to 215, maybe 220 delegates he is hoping to gather tonight to get over that 400 threshold and then he starts focusing singularly on barack obama. im guessing the republic establishment would prefer the latter. >> chris: yeah. but he can focus on ba...

>> chris: there clearly is an effort by some members, you know, you cant call it a cohesive group but of the so-called tea party faction within the party to rally around gingrich or at least to stop this march which we seem to be headed towards romney at least in florida. obviously thats something that gingrich has to tap into. thats a very important part of the party. maybe not organized but there is certainly a tea party strain, which is against big government, which is antiestablishment. ging...

That would worry me. in the exit polls, 51% of people who voted for huntsman said they were satisfied with barack obama as their president. i cant imagine that constituency existing anywhere out there big time inside the republic party. so, i dont know how he grows from here or how he fairs in south carolina. >> chris: also, 70% of the huntsman voters describe themselves as moderate and liberals. karl, the super pac released an ad today attacking romney by linking him to a villain of the democra...

And everybody who is running. and millions of different polls an configurations and fields. and the glass is not just a quarter full its three quarters empty. you have a group of republic primary voters who basically saying i support huckabee or trump or damages. >> laura: none of them are running thats the problem. >> or palin or christie or bachmann or perry or cain before i would support romney. because they had those chances and they passed up romney to go to those. >> laura: you never hear ...

The republic party knows independent voters are much more likely to vote for romney than for cain. independent voters will decide the general election. according to a new pugh poll independence favor romney over president obama 54% to 41%. republic party desperately wants to not only win the white house but the senate as well. thereby totally controlling the agenda in washington. if that happens next year, say goodbye to obama care, it will be repealed faster than the boston red sox fell apart l...

>> bill: yeah. >> his endorsement was very important. >> bill: he is tuned into the karl roves, to the big money men, haley barbour, jim demint, senator demint from south carolina. these are the real power brokers inside the republic party. and they well know, as i think you do, that herman cain is not going to beat president obama. if herman cain were to secure the republic nomination, as charismatic and as interesting to watch as he is, he is not going to beat barack obama. all right? so thats...

>> bill: yeah. >> his endorsement was very important. >> bill: he is tuned into the karl roves, to the big money men, haley barbour, jim demint, senator demint from south carolina. these are the real power brokers inside the republic party. and they well know, as i think you do, that herman cain is not going to beat president obama. if herman cain were to secure the republic nomination, as charismatic and as interesting to watch as he is, he is not going to beat barack obama. all right? so thats...

>> bill: yeah. >> his endorsement was very important. >> bill: he is tuned into the karl roves, to the big money men, haley barbour, jim demint, senator demint from south carolina. these are the real power brokers inside the republic party. and they well know, as i think you do, that herman cain is not going to beat president obama. if herman cain were to secure the republic nomination, as charismatic and as interesting to watch as he is, he is not going to beat barack obama. all right? so thats...