in the eastern time zone have already closed, with a whopping 1% of the michigan vote in, right now rick santorum at 48%, mitt romney with 34%. ron paul in third with 14% and newt gingrich at 5%, do not extrapolate from these votes as you can see from the exact match of the numbers and percentages, 100 votes total. don t get excited. those are the first results. i m joined on set in new york by chris matthews, ed schultz, steve schmidt, lawrence o donnell, al sharpton. there is more suspense about michigan than arizona. steve schmidtt, when you hear the santorum campaign they think they ve won just by making mitt romney sweat michigan, just by getting close, is that spin or do you think that s true? i think it s dead-on accurate.