trying to be able to read the room at an event like this. i don't think either of them had a performance that's dramatically going to change the triple digit tree of where this race is i think headed towards michigan and arizona in a couple of weeks. santorum was very good. i thought he could have been better. romney was pretty good for this audience. he's not jazzy, he's never going to be. he has to take on his massachusetts record as a candidate for the nomination and the general election. think he was smart to do it today and i think he did it pretty well. and he does have a better story to tell there to conservatives than the general coverage of him would suggest. up next, what did michele bachmann learn from her campaign for president? that's ahead in "the sideshow." she got a little funnier, actually. you're watching "hardball." funny ha, ha. not funny crazy.