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Triple bypass surgery. he is survived by his wife, son, two stepchildren. mike wallace was 93 years old born one year after j.f.k. now to politics where a growing number of republicans now say the question is becoming not if but when mitt romney will lock up the party's nomination. romney currently leads his fellow candidates with a total of 573 delegates. that's 361 more than his closest competitor, rick santorum. and a recent poll by the ap shows the republican super delegates are slowly coming around and supporting the former massachusetts governor. romney has 35 super delegate endorsemen...

Half the delegates in this process have been selected. and who's ready to karch out of the locker room in pennsylvania for a strong second half? >> are we in the second half of the race? mitt romney seems to think it's game over. joining us now from washington is hogan gidley, national communications director of the rick santorum campaign. always a pleasure to have you, sir. >> dimples don't fool me, alex. i'm waiting for the attack. >> going right for the dimples off the top. let's play ball. so hogan, what quarter of the game are we in? the conservative scoreboard reads 573-212. >> right. >>...

A delegate-oriented decision. you remember the first half or the first quarter of this contest, most of these knob ads were focused right at speaker gingrich. i think that what we're finding is even though the numbers are what you say, speaker gingrich is still influencing the national debate in terms of focusing you know before the president sort started addressing romney, he was addressing us and the speaker's $2.50 gas plan. so as long as he is part of the national base, as long as he's making sure that the party remains true to its conservative principles, i think that he remains a viable ...

Momentum in his quest for the republican nomination. he's crossed the halfway point to 1144. he has 573 delegates and santorum has 212, newt gingrich and ron paul trail. some other interesting numbers, msnbc's richard lui has a closer look at the exit polls and what do they tell us about romney's path going forward? >> chris, if it's over, mitt romney would point to this, the gop baselining up behind him. nbc news exit polls, romney hoovering in 40s with evangelicals, he split that vote in one of his best you comes with religious conservatives, questions about the faith with the group could be...

The many m metaphor that comes to mind today is there is a three stooges quality, if they're not poking the other in the eye, they're pokes themselves in the eye and i think the republican leaders are acknowledges it is a terribly destructive process and the only reason santorum is staying in is for self irk reasons at this point. >> one of the things i can't understand is santorum's advisers and himself talk about halftime. here is the halftime score. mitt romney, 573 delegates. rick santorum, 212. >> right. not to mention the organizational advantages, the fund raising advantages. i mean, if...