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In. the back and forth we have seen in this lead, santorum has had a big lead. it started to shrink in the past few minutes as karl rove mentioned, some of the urban areas and the suburbs in the big cities, starting to come nperhaps. we will talk to karl in just a bit about that. we can also call now that newt gingrich will finish third in ohio and ron paul will finish fourth. we can call that now. >> megyn: and call virginia as l. >> bret: we did that a long time ago. >> megyn: in case you were...

They are a famously late-counting precincts. they are famously close. >> megyn: why do you think karl rove feels like its romneys to lose? he is talking about the counties that are pro-romney have not all reported? >> there are key places we are looking in. not just in suburban cleveland. but also down in the southern part of the state, in the southwestern part of the state, where there is a lot more vote that could be a good romney vote. we are also waiting to finish up the vote counting in wes...

But if you look at tonight, outside of georgia and you look at tennessee and oklahoma, the winner had on average, 35%, the second place finisher, 28. and the third-place finisher, 26. the problem is, these are -- these delegates will be awarded proportionally, so next week, lets assume the candidates run as well as they did tonight in oklahoma and tennessee. the first-place finisher will get 32 delegates and second place, 27 and the third place finisher, 25. the problem is, speaker gingrich was ...

Thats just one example we heard from obama today, things he wants to do wrong to this country. he who can most starkly contrast his ideas against that will go forward. at this point, it doesnt make any sense for anybody to drop out and concede that they cant be the nominee. >> bret: more with governor palin. thank you. >> megyn: want to give that back now to washington with "fox news sunday" anchor chris wallace is there. >> the big question, looking at the numbers in ohio at this point, santoru...

Suburbs are -- basically, we have a burve of big urban and suburban counties. >> are santorum counties out? >> yeah, but its marian and ottawa, marion is a small, rural county, ottawa is near toledo and could be a romney county and one other suburban county, suburban cleveland county of medine alikely to be a romney counselee. so we have seen it as big as 16,000 and closed to 11,000 and back out now -- >> 12,000 right now. >> 12,000 votes. >> you would think, looking at this, though, with the bi...

Razor-thin marge and i know what a contest between these two in a very important state. the state of ohio here. the stakes there cannot be understated i want to tablet viewers that mitt romneys political director called ohio a gif fight in a phone booth and said in the romney camp, it is a must win for santorum, suggesting it will be very hard for rick santorum to get money and momentum, to continue on for much longer if he doesnt win ohio. look at the number there is. it is way too close to cal...

Santorum? >> this was a disappointment for santorum because if you look at youngstown, if you look at warren, ohio, those are places where santorum campaigned and wanted to do well, hasnt done the number that he wanted. hes trailing to romney, but he didnt get what he needed to get there. >> megyn: is this a surprise to you? that ohio is this close at this hour? >> nothing in ohio does in an election. ever surprises me. >> megyn: can you rest of you complent on that? is that true? [laughter] >> ...

>> welcome back. we want to get back to our all-star panel. what are your thoughts so far? >> li mean, i think what happens in ohio is really huge. if santorum wins there, then i think its going to be a setback for romney. im surprised because i think that things were tightening up and it looked like the momentum wasnt really behind santorum t. seemed that he didnt have the wind in his back necessarily. so, yeah, this race seems like something thats going to go on and on and on? do you think it ...

The white house can no one to answer to, finishing up with his campaign, his quote, on the move. tomorrow, we wake up and we start again. want to tell you that while governor romney was speaking, fox news projected that he has taken second in the state of tennessee, behind rick santorum, that was a three-way race between governor romney, rick santorum and newt gingrich. gingrich and santorum were thought to be battling it out there. but mitt romney has come in second in the state of tennessee to...