Republic Potential News Today

When you see your ads coming back, the words in your ads coming back in your polling, then you know you are being successful. >> shepard: we will talk more about what those attack ads will do down the road in just a second. because they are very important going forward. but, first there is breaking news now as fox reports live tonight. the polls have just closed at 7:30 eastern time in the state of ohio. the voting is over. it is the key state of the night. the biggest contest of the night. and ...

Conservative vote tonight and going forward. first, president obama held his first very first news conference of the year on super tuesday. coincidental, his aides insist. the president discussed topics including mortgage relief. but and the nuclear standoff with iran. and that quickly took center stage. he reiterated his position that there is still time to resolve the situation diplomatically. but he also took a swipe at republic candidates for as he put it beating the drums of war. >> those f...

A lot that were watching. if you want to know what were watching behind the scenes now, obviously watching ohio. ohio is going to tell us a lot. as ed rollins said a couple of minutes ago if mitt romney can win ohio, ed rollins veteran g.o.p. consultant and insider says this thing is over. it wont end but its over. and then there is tennessee. can rick santorum get the evangelical vote and enough of it in the state of tennessee to go on and take it? can newt gingrich do the same? and can newt gi...

Talk about war. >> thats right, shep. i mean, the bottom line is the president underscored again and again that he still thinks that diplomacy can work. he thinks there is a window of opportunity now because he thinks the sanctions are crippling iran. he thinks everyone should calm down this talk, that its spooking the oil markets, raising the price of oil. its concerning the american people. concerning people around the world. all of this loose talk. and he basically hit republics because he sa...

For both frontrunners. there is an extra challenge for rick santorum because he did not qualify for all of the states delegates. what does that mean? steve brown is live at rick santorums super tuesday headquarters steubenville, ohio tonight. the santorum campaign failed to qualify for as many as 18 ohio delegates. why? >> essentially they they didnt get their paperwork done. the campaign says they were establishment campaign. they didnt have establishment money nor did they have an establishmen...

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...

About delegates. even if you are getting beat up in a bunch of places if you have got the lead in delegates in the end thats what they count at the end in the convention. the other thing it seems to me romney can say is, you know, all the states arent the same. one could make the argument that oklahoma, tennessee, those are going to go to the republic nominee, whoever they are. observed, florida, -- on the other hand, florida, ohio, virginia, those are key states. those are states very much in p...

>> well, i mean that certainly is the question and clearly he has not made the sale yet. we can say from the exit polls that what we have seen in michigan, what we have seen in a bunch of these states continues to hold true. what we saw in florida. what we saw in south carolina, very conservative, strong tea party supporters. people for whom religious values are very important. they are not crazy about mitt romney. he loses that vote to, in one case gingrich. another case santorum. maybe here to...

Alternatives looking for that conservative vote which is pronounced, its out there, and hasnt been persuaded by romneys candidacy yet. >> shepard: it certainly hasnt. carl, stay with us if you would. i want to bring in chris wallace on your local fox station. chris a couple of things, first of all the republicans, the establishment at least would very much like to have the republic candidates stop beating each other up and, to that end, they would need somebody to get out tonight with newt gingr...

Only one with romney here. the fact is he may have been helped by gingrich and santorum supporters who didnt have a choice on the ballot. they dont allow for wright -- write ins here. >> shepard: nine minutes until the polls are closing in the state of ohio. very tight race between rick santorum and mitt romney. santorum had been doing very well there lost some momentum in the last few days, maybe week or so. carl cammeron ohio is a state if you are a republic, you have got to have it. >> ha ha....