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Free markets? >> the was ton of capitalism. right here in berkeley. nice crowds so were very pleased. >> john: you have lots of students turning out? >> absolutely. weve been to three universities in the california and the turnouts have been fantastic, 5,000, one time close to 7,000. but dont look for reports in the newspaper. it hasnt showed up in the newspapers. we have to get the message out some other way. >> john: 7,000 is an unusual crowd. i would assume, i would wish these students unders...

Schoen. and a former pollster for president carter and a former republican congressman for new york is here as well. does this put santorum back in the race or not? louisiana? >> i think he has been in the race as an option against ropeny. this race is all about romney. its been a year of republicans resisting the probable inevitability of romney. they dont really want him. the turnouts are low in the primary. they are unenthused. in a year when republicans are supposed to be tuned up to beat pr...

Number to be the nominee. i think thats what santorum would do. bill: some of these are critical battleground. >> the romney campaign is running on all cylinders. these negative attacks are alienating some of the base. they will alienate gingrich and santorum but he needs to come together in tampa to support them. bill: illinois had fantastic weather but the voter turnouts said to be at a low. >> people are bored with this race and they are tired of the negatives and they dont see it really matt...

getting more numbers. were not yet able to make a projection based on these first round, second round of these exit polls. were getting more. let me walk over to john king and explain whats going on. no projection yet. but it seems at least according to the early exit polls information, the new numbers in the exit polls are still coming in. looks like its going to be a good night for mitt romney. >> every reason to believe that governor romney will win the state of illinois. if youve b...

Has brought a bunch of democrats into these open primaries and thats inflated their number. its been down. i think when you have a race -- i mean, mitt romneys outspending rick santorum 7-1 in this state. and almost all of it is negative. you know in florida, your home state, the story was much, much the same. you cannot put, dispirit people when all youre offering is a negative argument against your opponent, and i think we see it on their side. on our side we dont have an opponent. ive been ve...

And who gets to speak and doesnt get to speak. the establishment does not want newt gingrich to speak at the convention. they know exactly what would happen. he would win over the delegates. these delegates know newt gingrich and know that he created 11 million vote swing in 1994. romney has sewed the -- suppressed the vote getting lower turnouts in state after state. you cant win like that. newt gingrich wins the majority in 1994 and because 9 more million people showed up and 1 million less vo...

Demographic to be segmented into extremists cheering at a billion dollar cage fight. alice walker, author of "the color purple" wrote, "the most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any. no matter what the politicians and money interests would have you believe, were powerful. but only if we are all engaged." dylan? >> well said. when you look like an open primary, some of the things that we talk about, americans are left, trying to nominate a candidate on the inter...

condemnation from fellow republicans. rick santorum says the comments are absurd. the white house is also being drawn into the uproar. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." lets get right to the breaking news, a huge tornado outbreak stretches from alabama to indiana and beyond. millions of americans are under tornado watches. tornado warnings as well. professional storm chasers have been following these twisters all afternoon, providing dramatic images of an unfolding disa...

His super pact are really hitting hard. there have been surrogates for senator santorum that have been out there pushing ads as well. their campaign has been making calls to a lot of democrats a lot of independents from our reports as well as republicans and they have been hitting robo calls very, very hard. governor romney has been absolutely working. >> can you give me a report on tuesday? >> i cant. in terms of turnouts if it was something like it was in 2008 which was 860 thousand then gover...

Thats part of the argument behind moving election day from tuesday to saturday. casey stegall is live from the los angeles bureau. are there other arguments to moving a federal election, casey. >> reporter: its fascinating, a growing movement from this organization called why tuesday.org. and also a new york lawmaker that points to an exhe treemly old law. first of all, a quick history lesson. congress picked tuesdays to hold general elections back in 1845, to accommodate the farmers and it had ...