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Given his more moderate pedigree, given the health care plan that he passed in massachusetts, given that in the past he has been pro-choice and pro-gay rights, i think i understate the case to say that he has some work to do. now, the good news for romney is that this is not his first time around the track. remember, joe, that when he came to the podium that is just behind me right now four years ago, he was welcomed as a conservative hero who had taken on john mccain from the right. so he's built some relationships, he won the tea party vote, he won the self-identified conservative vote. and ...

Of straw vote of conservatives, and they went dramatically. >> well, you know, chuck, you've covered this stuff for years. so you know that in 2008, mike huckabee spent a nickel in georgia and beat john mccain. he probably spent a dime in virginia and beat john mccain. what was that a sign of in 2008? it was a sign that john mccain, if he were to become the nominee had a lot of work to do to excite, energize, and effectively court the evangelical pro-family and conservative grass roots of the republican party. he ultimately did so. and by the way, on election day '08, john mccain got a higher ...

Won three. rick santorum needs newt gingrich to get out of the race or the voters to collapse his support and come over to him decisively. if there are two candidates splitting the conservative vote, looking ahead at the remaining contest and going on to super tuesday, i think it means that it's big trouble for those candidates. >> what do you make of santorum winning where president obama won? minnesota, iowa, missouri, colorado? i went to the newt gingrich event the other night and they weren't sold on newt in bloomington, minnesota but you could sense they were looking for something. they w...

>> jamie: a run-up to the florida republican primary, newt gingrich and romney camps are going negative and what could be the most important electoral contest we have seen yet. newt gingrich spoke with our chris wallace on fox news sunday. and gave his predictions for this tuesday. >> we had a poll day before yesterday, we were tied, and we had the two polls this morning that show santorum and i collectively are bigger than mitt romney and mitt romney beats me as long as we split the conservative vote and have tremendous effort underway to reach out to conservatives to get them to see the only...

And the shear amount of r money they raise on wall street. >> chris: six days before the south carolina primary, you predicted correctly -- and i think you could sense momentumsi there that you were gog win that race andca you won by 12 points. all right. it's two days before the florida primary. what's going to happen in florida? >> i think it's going to be very close. we had a poll day before yesterday that we were tied. we had the two polls thisat morning that show that santorum and i collectively are bigger than romney, but romney beats me as long as we split the conservative vote. we've t...