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Vote in in mississippi, but alabama has been won by rick santorum. what do you think is the most important implication of that for the race? >> really bad news for newt gingrich. it's the end of his southern strategy. his campaign now, i think, has to start focusing on some tough decisions. great news for rick santorum. probably doesn't change the delegate count very much, but in terms of advancing the santorum argument that i'm not getting out of this race, i'm going all the way to the convention because mitt romney can't get enough delegates to get nominated through the voting process and i'...

Welcome back to special republican primary election coverage here on "the ed show" on msnbc. rick santorum is the projected winner in alabama, despite newt gingrich's efforts to win another southern state. santorum is the projected winner in mississippi and he has, therefore, taken both of these southern states tonight. and where does this leave mitt romney? let's turn to nbc news political director chuck todd. chuck? the delegate count. where are we tonight? what does tonight mean? >> well, let's do that first. all right. i'll go there. that is simply -- i've been doing back of the envelope m...

He has to show he will make the addition to the ticket that will shore up the south. >> i was talking and i was told that gingrich is in this to the end. that -- >> that is really shaping up as a nonstory. >> in terms of delegate count, it's not a nonstory. >> he is back from the back though, gingrich, it's more about his ego. as chuck todd pointed out, he won georgia but not even the states that neighbored georgia. >> he can go to the convention and have his delegates and cuts the deal. it has to go to a second ballot. >> and that is looking like it may happen. >> what is the deal, what does ...

the next contests. >> we will compete everywhere. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure -- to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama who can take him on on every issue. >> all right. let's take a closer look at the numbers in both states. you can see how tight this race was. it took awhile at cnn to make these calls. it was running as a three-man race for most of the evening. alabama, rick sant...

prime minister david cameron. mostly business, anyway. after they caught a game in the ncaa basketball tournament, president obama welcomed the british prime minister and his wife in a ceremony fit for a king. right now they're meeting in private on world issues tough to talk about. iran, syria, the debt crisis. stop me any time. they will be honored tonight at a state dinner as well. in a little over an hour from now, he and the president will be stepping into the rose garden for a news conference, and you'll be seeing it live here on cnn, so stay tuned. also in the news, secretar...