and reagan ran that insurgent campaign in 1976, and people were saying, why don t you get out of the race? you have no chance of winning. and he fought. he won 11 states in 1976. i might add just parenthetically, that if we happen to win illinois, that will be the 11th state i ve won in this election. keeping them honest, ronald reagan did lose in 1976. but his spokesperson believes in a different outcome in 2012. they put out a memo called santorum path to delegate victory. and the candidate has been promising victory for weeks. we re doing great. we re in this race. we re in it to stay. we have won in the west, the midwest, and the south. and we re ready to win across this country. we feel very good that we re in a position to still win it right out. and if we have to go to an open convention, we like our chances just as well. we are going to win this nomination before that convention. well, obviously, we re in this to win. we re going to come out with illinois and a
second coming of reagan 76. and reagan ran that insurgent campaign in 1976, and people were saying, why don t you get out of the race? you have no chance of winning. and he fought. he won 11 states in 1976. i might add just parenthetically, that if we happen to win illinois, that will be the 11th state i ve won in this election. keeping them honest, ronald reagan did lose in 1976. but his spokesperson believes in a different outcome in 2012. they put out a memo called santorum path to delegate victory. and the candidate has been promising victory for weeks. we re doing great. we re in this race. we re in it to stay. we have won in the west, the midwest, and the south. and we re ready to win across this country. we feel very good that we re in a position to still win it right out. and if we have to go to an open convention, we like our chances just as well. we are going to win this nomination before that convention. well, obviously, we re in this to win. we re going to
our goal was to take out one-third of the delegates and possibly slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. your goal wasn t to win one of these states? i don t think that anyone expected to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, this was an away game for him and i think that is true. this is a delegate contest. like i said our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. at least one person did expect, mitt romney in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney, listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you this. we will have throw or four days in the news miedia. these are the same people that said why isn t he dead. they raise this every few weeks. i don t know if you heard about him wanting to finish second
that. i think we will exceed that goal. it s important to your goal wasn t to win one of these states? i don t think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him. i think that s i think that s true. look, this is a delegate contest and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping him honest on that claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in fact at least one person did expect, mitt romney in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney. of course listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you this a second. what will become a challenge is we ll now have three or four days of the news media and they ll a say why doesn t gingrich quit. these are the same people that said last june that i was dead. they recycle this every
today marks one year since syria s uprising began with a day of rage. it is clear the rage has not let up. we re keeping an eye, too, on afghanistan. defense secretary leon panetta just met with president hamid karzai as the u.s. soldier who is a kutsed of slaughtering 16 people is moved from the country. the washington monument is sinking. it s sunk a fraction of an inch since the quake hit last august. today the circus ends and the prison sentence begins. former governor rob blagojevich has left illinois and might not be back for quite some time. he s on his way right now to a federal prison in colorado to start his 14-year sentence. he was convicted last summer of corruption. zoraida zsambolin is with us. my pleasure. zoraida, his going away thing was kind of like he was a rock star rather than a corrupt politician. why is that? as i was watching it this morning, i thought the exact same thing. this guy still does what he does best, right? he has this rock star