commanding position, but he's still vulnerable because the next four major contests are ones he'll be hard-pressed to get a "w" in any of them. >> the banner says it right. this is a gop war of attrition. now we move to alabama where mitt romney will lose. mississippi, where mitt romney will lose. louisiana where mitt romney will lose. you can go down the list. you look at next week's contests, he's got a chance to win in illinois. but chances are good, he's going to get bounced around really hard over the next several weeks. >> i guess the flip side is the hope is all of this makes him better. having said that, i was talking to people close to the romney campaign last night and they were, willie, sweating it. it was not pretty. they did not know which way it was going to go for quite some time. that was not the way they wanted that to go down. >> true, but it ended well for them. the unwillness of members of the