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Guy, your thoughts on whether the republican party will get behind mitt romney whose approval ratings have continuously been in the 30s and 20s in some cases. 30s or 40s in terms of his support within the republican party. will the conservatives get behind mitt romney now? >> absolutely, no question about it. two words. barack obama. we saw a speech from the president last week tuesday that was you surreal in its demagoguy and dishonesty, trashing mitt romney and trashing paul ryan and taking the gloves off. i think mitt romney has improved as a candidate. we have to tip our hat to rick santor...

Made that statement about essentially coming back together, bringing the party back together, moving for acclamation, that was a statement. she began her speech essentially saying, barack obama is my candidate and nothing is more important for the fate of our nation and the future of our children than having him elected. >> so this idea of her doing her duty and supporting him as the eventual nominee was just critical. >> what about the ten noer of things now. the passion that was there, evident in 2008, which we don't seem to see or feel much of this time around? what role does that play? >> ...

Important as long as he can get delegates in the process. >> this is what the ron paul folks are saying, they're taking the long view, studying the barack obama campaign model of 2008. but it seems to me the history of presidential nomination battles is that essentially delegates stop mattering at a certain point because the nominee wins essentially by acclamation, right? vengsly there's a consolidation that happens. that's been the history. delegates mattered for much longer than we thought they would matter in 2008. but ultimately they're not a coin of the realm once you get to the conventio...

Have a joke about arguing politics all the time and he says it is like the two of us do professional wrestling and, you have to do it the next night and the next place and with newt gingrich i had a sense i was the villain in a wrestling match taking place, right there at that moment, in myrtle beach and he was though good guy and, he was winning. >> bret: if it turns out, going in it appears he had the huge momentum and has the huge win, it does turn the race on its head, doesn't it? >> i don't think there is any question it turns the race. it was literally the case the beginning of the week,...

What we've been told. martha: they sure will. how are the candidates spending their final presentation momen precious moments to connect with voters, steve. >> reporter: they are going to back to high school for a couple of minutes. i here, valley high school in west des moines started having rock the caucus, related to rock the vote. they've carried it on four years later to this year and they've got three presidential candidates, republicans all coming in michelle bachmann, rick santorum and ron paul. the ron paul organization by acclamation has the best ground game and they are busy working...