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alabama and hopefully the folks in mississippi did -- we did? i guess. >> how happy is he? how happy is his family? back with us right now, our expert cnn team. john, this is a very significant night for rick santorum. just when so many of the so-called experts were saying romney had it all but done, not is fast. >> could romney lock it up or another revival for newt gingrich. he loses in the two south states. he says hes staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to ch...

Delegates are going to be. iowa, we barely won iowa by 40 votes, and we had their conventions yesterday, and nobody has that in their count, and they have us winning by one vote and thats not going to be the case when the delegates from the caucuses are elected. and also you also know, a lot of the delegates are uncommitted. while they may be, you know, for romney, a lot of the delegates can win and they are unbound. thats another dynamic. you have a whole bunch of super delegates. governor romn...

And the news agency apportioned delegates that have nothing to do with the reality of where the delegates are going to be. iowa, we barely won iowa by 40 votes, and we had their conventions yesterday, and nobody has that in their count, and they have us winning by one vote and thats not going to be the case when the delegates from the caucuses are elected. and also you also know, a lot of the delegates are uncommitted. while they may be, you know, for romney, a lot of the delegates can win and t...

Would have been 115 to 130. and the big disappointment is the few delegates out of the state of georgia. ron paul is not so hot, as you can see there. so what does this mean for rick santorum? the bottom line is the math doesnt work against him. ive done this three ways. all the remaining delegates, including those in conventions and caucuses. he has to win 62% of all remaining delegates to to 1144. if you assume mitt romney may win some primaries, like the new york primary, the connecticut prim...

Right? mcgovern had been nominated and everybody freaked out. so there was this wrenching back. the rules that get written to -- kind of guide them t nomination process end up being a way to essentially adjudicate this battle between the sort of party establishment and grass roots and we are seeing a kind of stalemate, i think, right now being drawn between those two forces. congressman cohen, you lived through 2008. right? >> im here. >> you managed to survive. that must have been difficult bec...

That person would have to have a few things working. name recognition, support from the conservative base, and ive already gone through some sort of vetting or scrutiny, some of the names floated out there that could pull this off mitch daniels of indiana, jeb bush of florida, paul ryan of wisconsin, and of course chris christie of new jersey. thats whats possible. now lets talk about whats realistic so late in the game. well look at this from a post super tuesday perspective here. there are thr...

>> bill: you are telling me if they get and they are deadlocked and they dont like the candidates that are on there that they cant go another place at the convention? i believe they can there is some kind of procedure. >> on the second and third ballots they can. >> i knew there was. >> super delegates can. >> bill: you can take your super delegates. >> first ballot somebody will have a majority on first ballot. >> bill: thats absolutely possible. there is a chance that there could be a draft. l...

>> bill: you are telling me if they get and they are deadlocked and they dont like the candidates that are on there that they cant go another place at the convention? i believe they can there is some kind of procedure. >> on the second and third ballots they can. >> i knew there was. >> super delegates can. >> bill: you can take your super delegates. >> first ballot somebody will have a majority on first ballot. >> bill: thats absolutely possible. there is a chance that there could be a draft. l...

>> bill: you are telling me if they get and they are deadlocked and they dont like the candidates that are on there that they cant go another place at the convention? i believe they can there is some kind of procedure. >> on the second and third ballots they can. >> i knew there was. >> super delegates can. >> bill: you can take your super delegates. >> first ballot somebody will have a majority on first ballot. >> bill: thats absolutely possible. there is a chance that there could be a draft. l...

Our next guest is president barack obama. well, sometimes. >> lets take hillary clinton. you remember her. she ran against me in the democratic primary. told super delegates i couldnt win in a general election. hey, she brought up william ayers before anyone. did i exact political revenge? nope. i brought her in. why? because i keep it cool. >> okay. our next guest is really long-time "saturday night live" star fred armisen. and when we talked with him earlier, he told us about his new second ho...