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Michigan, utah and massachusetts. four years ago he won all three of the states. is there any one of them a must-win for romney? no. in reality, isnt that true that because of the proportional delegates in the early part here someone could get seconds and still get the delegate needed to 1144? >> absolutely. its a huge blow. he talks about it as the home state. he is glad to come home. he won by nine points over john mccain in 2008. couples with losses to santorum, and missouri and iowa. it show...

Would win michigan. not that he what to. that he was going to win it. a few days ago he had a 28-point lead in arizona. that is slipping away. but back to michigan. it means that he has to wrestle the campaign from rick santorum. he loses the built-in advantages there, he will have a terrible super tuesday and really, santorum catches up to him in delegates. the entire expectation game is over for romney. he is invincible and inevitable. he then becomes the underdog. he has to take the nominatio...

And you had romney officials out today, saying michigan is not a must-win for the romney campaign. you had santorum folks saying its romney country. expectations? >> i think the question is whether everything that santorum has been saying that has been message about social issues, contraception, about the church and prenatal testing and everything, whether it catches up with him in michigan. whether it hurts him with a republican primary electorate. one thing you see covering campaign, involved ...

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Says he is no longer a budget hawk. i am. i dont want to spend more money than we take in. >> romney and santorum spent time campaigning today in the critical primary state of ohio. one of the super tuesday states. everyone is looking at next weeks contest in michigan and arizona. the latest polls in michigan suggest the race is tightening there. the latest poll of likely michigan voters has santorum 37, romney 33, paul 15 and gingrich 10. the real clear politics average has santorum up five ove...

Gallop national tracking poll, santorum opened a double digit lead over romney. santorum 36, romney 26. gingrich is third with 13. ron paul is fourth with 11. in the past two weeks, santorum gained 20 points. romney has dropped 11 points. this would seem to suggest the stakes are higher for romney next week in michigan. bret? >> bret: all right, mike. thank you. conservative republican sheriff paul babeu is vowing to continue the congressional campaign in arizona after admitting over the weekend...