wisconsin, maryland and the district of columbia. polls are closing in less than an hour's time. we have the first insight into who voted today, why they voted as mitt romney is looking to lock up the republican nomination once and for all. there have been a lot of night wheres we have said that and it has not occurred. you have been looking at exit poling data. what do you see? >> we have our first indication and the first and best mysteries of this election and it is right up here in wisconsin. largely a rural place and agriculture going on. biggest prize is in milwaukee. 18% of the population. let's look at the exit polls. we'll talk about the mystery here. look at how this primary worked out. it is an open primary. 58% of the people say republican. 30% say they are independent and 12% say they were democrats. i am just going to show you part of this. 12% are democrat and out of that 32% say for rick santorum. 22% for mitt romney among the democrats. you are saying how is it that the democrats are lining up behind rick santorum? we have heard democrats might step into a race and try to spoil it by keeping the republican going at each other. the question is, is that who is voting for him or are these reagan republicans. the last time wisconsin went for republican president was ronald reagan. if the people are over 46 years old they were old enough to vote then and now. is it? we won't know until later tonight. there is something else to give us a clue here. vote by ideology today. in our exit polls 31% people said very conservative. 31% said somewhat conservative and 38% say moderate or liberal. when i bring out the moderate or liberal. 30% for romney. 30% for santorum. 30% saying they are voting for the person who says he is conservative. that would suggest that maybe what we are seeing in the first number is democrat spoilers. we really won't know until the night is over. right now it is a big mystery that the camps have to be hanging on. >> i cannot wait to hear whether it is spoilers or people doing what americans always do, something we don't expect. we'll be getting to the bottom of that. we have less than an hour until the polls close. >> general motors and chrysler reported car sales. this will shock those of you thinking we are in a terrible recession. it is the best month for auto sales. the corps of american manufacturing since the summer of 2007 with when americans were buying 17 million vehicles a veer, we are not there yet. wree getting there. today is evidence america is getting back. there is a darker side of this. let's wait for that and bring in the outfront strike team. research comes out front. good to see you. it appeared to me some of these companies came in short of expectations but it was a good month and some u.s. companies topping some of the perennial favorites from japan. >> it was overall a good month. seasonally adjusted, one of the best marchs that we have seen in quite a while. the numbers seem to be moving forward. it shows that despite $4 gas or more than $4 gas people are in the mood to buy cars. >> it is amazing with gas prices up 20% for the year. let me ask you something on the politics and that is the volt from gm. there have been public fire issues the ceo saying the attacks on his vehicle were outrageous and unfair and political in nature because people try to say the government told them to build this battery operated car. they came out with the volt with the best month so far. it was pretty incredible. is this vindication for the volt? >> it is too early to tell at this point because last year the numbers were not that impressive. they ran well below what they hoped. they sold around 7,500. they did say that they were going to put it on hiatus and not make it this summer so there might have been a rush to get them before they stop making them. they are good numbers and they'll take good numbers versus poor numbers. >> all politics aside, in a moment i will lay out how much money gm still owes taxpayers or how much shares need to rise for taxpayers to be in the green. will the general motors bailout ever be a bailout where taxpayers made money? >> boy, that's a tough one. if it is going to make money it will be several years down the road before we find out whether or not it is going to make money. it has been a big slot to make it back in profitability. it's still below the initial public offering price of about 14 months ago. we got a ways to go. it's possible but not on the immediate horizon. >> thank you very much. laying out the facts of where we are right now. that leads us to the shadier side of the story. the government and that's taxpayers still own 500 million shares of general motors post bailout. that is about a third of the company. it's a lot and we are still deeply in the red in our investment. we could make money on it and some people say it doesn't matter whether we do or don't but analysts say the stock must trade at about $59 for the government to be made whole. it closed toot at $25.54. who is going to win the auto bailout battle this fall? all three of you, john, the irony is that nobody supports letting these companies liquid ate. george w. bush initiated the bailout. president obama finished it. who is going to politicly be able to seize this. >> when you have the responsibility of being president you don't play the cheap seats. here is what you know. partisan spin aside. mitt romney wrote it if the bailout goes through you can kiss the auto industry. the auto industry is coming back. that's an american success story. i think at the end of the day it is an accomplishment president obama can point to but a larger win for the american people. >> how does mitt romney spend this this fall? >> i'm mixed on this because there is a fundamental problem here. we are a nation with trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. anytime anybody in america suffers whether a business or individual why does the government need to bail them out whether it is autos or houses. my old house started it. barack obama finished it. it doesn't make it right. politicians is all addage. don't just stand there just spend something. that is what it seems we keep doing. >> the irony is chapter 11 as someone like mitt romney would say would have protected the company not as if anybody wanted all jobs to go away. but politicly the president might make that argument and be successful doing it. >> the president will make the case to say he helped save over a million jobs. over 200,000 jobs have been created because gm is back in profitability. it is the highest profits in 100 years. they are not only building more cars but better cars, cars that will get 30 miles to the gallon on the highway. that will save people, voters money at the pump. so this is a great success story. we should all celebrate it. it is a bipartisan agreement. now that we have this trade deal our cars will be able to be sold in south korea. that is a win/win for the american people. >> ford didn't need it and ford is doing well. the fundamental issue still remains if the government doesn't do it will the private sector get it done. more jobs would have been lost but as long as americans buy cars there will be car makers. >> nobody was putting their money on the table. when you saw lehman brothers collapse this was a time when the government had to step in to save american jobs, a very important manufacturing sector but also save communities. >> and that's what george w. bush did because he said it was because we would have otherwise gone to depression. >> the union contracts. ultimately it is how the two parties did it differently. >> we can have a good debate on that. good for ford for not needing the bailout. i think they deserve real props for that. but if you look at mitt romney saying make the prediction if the bailout went through it would be the end of the auto industry he was wrong about that. >> chrysler got sold. >> $1.3 billion is still the estimate for what taxpayers would have owned for it. there is a new car coming out. it leaked out. it is designed to look like a naked woman. it is an italian company. >> i would like to have a sneak preview and the keys if you have them downstairs. >> it looks like a pretty neat car. you'll see that out of chrysler/fiat tomorrow. we have breaking news because the tornadoes have been ripping through dallas. airplanes grounded completely and we have a storm chaser on the scene tonight next and airlines have found a new way to get your money. you thought it was impossible for them to gouge you. and protesters fire bombing an embas embassy. we'll be back. 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