mitt romney is the apparent winner of the maine caucus. and that does, i think at least arrest the losing streak that he was, he was on. >> we set this up as sort of the top of the show, talking about the ppp poll that has him down to 20% nationally. if the narrative is four out of five losses in february, that number could drop. let's butt it in perspective. in 2008 mitt romney was well over 50% in maine this wasn't even a race up there, this is his home region. and my question, i would be interested, my understanding is the caucuses, the locations that did not participate are in the far eastern part of the state which i think would be a more ron paul-friendly area. i'm wondering how many people that involves and i'm wondering if that might be a repeat of the iowa thing. >> steve kornacki busting out his knowledge of politics, which has left us agape. i'm glad you're here with us tonight. we have 95% of the caucus votes are in, there's 5% of the caucusing that doesn't even happen until after tonight, i