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forman, who has been tracking the data all evening for us. tom, what can you have tell us about rick santorum's win? you have been monitoring all the metrics here. we've seen you standing at the magic walls. so we want to get to tom forman, as well as tell you again, we are monitoring again green bay, wisconsin. rick santorum is standing by. tom, what do you know? >> reporter: well, we know that one of the things that made a difference tonight was the religious vote. if we look at the turnout here, you look at the voters who came i'll ask what it will take for mitt romney to nail do...

That's very significant. romney has been winning those delegates for primary states. and after tonight, there won't be anywhere near as many primary states left for him to compete in. california and texas come very late in the process. romney will have to start competing in caucus states where base conservative tea party and self-described very conservative voters hold sway. that's where santorum and gingrich have shown real -- romney will have to verify the of the primary vote and start wrestling with santorum and gingrich going forward. conversely, if romney does get north of 400 delegates t...

He has got a big, big margin in michigan, largely because he doesn't speak conservative with an accent like romney does. romney has conservative but a massachusetts accent on top of it. people don't feel he is authentic this is an opportunity for santorum to show how authentic he is. the white house is licking their chops with this one and you saw that with robert gibbs yesterday. >> you write about michigan, can he win it, can he not? even his chief, brooks partison in here the final analysis, i would bet he is going to carry michigan but then would he bet the farm and he said, well, i would ...

Just federal funding, but state funding. >> where did they come up with that public education and big -- education bureaucracies was the rule in america? y yes, the government can help but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic. >> dan ballz, the state government should be running schools, rick santorum has been saying plenty of these things on the campaign trail for the entire time he has been running but now doing it with a lot of scrutiny. as you write this week, you know, is he ...

War for those who can promise the most benefits, i'm not your president. you already have that president. >> tamron hall has been tracking the exit polling on substance and he has a look at how mitt romney won tonight. this will be interesting. >> absolutely. we punched the numbers from the exit poll and there is an interesting story on how mitt romney won tonight. one of the arguments is he is more electable and that seemed to work for him tonight. we have been talking about the ability to beat president obama with the quality that mattered most to voters. today a third said that. the voters ...