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reality in the republican race. a few things are obvious. mitt romney for example is the clear and undisputed frontrunner but a front run where giant question marks. ten states voted last night and romney won six including the big contested battle ground of ohio. the math now very much on his side. romney's 429 delegates are more than all of his three rivals combined. and they put him almost 40% of the way to the magic number required to clinch the nomination. 23 states have now weighed in on the republican race. and romney has won a come bind 3.2 million votes or 39%. rick santorum ...

This thing is always about two things, the delegate map where he is doing well and the narrative of win sning and losi. romney may not be able to win in the south, but if he can win ohio, and florida, and those are the biggest two states in the general election and he wins tennessee, which i think can do, and i think that will be the big surprise, and he picks up support even in newt gingrich's georgia, and he will win it for free. and then i think you will inbound a pretty commanding place for the nomination. on behalf of the republican establishment, it's about time, because we want to get i...

Hoped. everyone is getting on board and the romney campaign took a page from the playbook to make the delegate map over and over and said look at the map and look at the calendar. look at the organizations and the resources. how does santorum get that he can't? >> he is el vibl for 369 of the 424 delegates. virginia and in ohio. he will never get those. >> not only just a question of whether or not he will get the delegates. we know he won't, but if you are going to be voting for the next president or the republican nominee, you have to ask yourself do i really want to vote for somebody who wa...

The opportunity for tuesday. >> michigan gave him a big microphone. that washington state win was indicative. he is definitely moving up. and the question is how does he use this moment? this thing is always about two things, the delegate map where he is doing well and the narrative of win sning and losi. romney may not be able to win in the south, but if he can win ohio, and florida, and those are the biggest two states in the general election and he wins tennessee, which i think can do, and i think that will be the big surprise, and he picks up support even in newt gingrich's georgia, and he...

Interesting, unusual result. it did inflate santorum numbers by up to 5%. perhaps 3% or so. a narrow defeat would have been slightly widerred that it not happen. >> bret: map of delegates on the table, 460 plus in super tuesday. you have a delegate map happening now. gingrich is still in there, too. ron paul hunting for delegat delegates. feng geng doing a southern strategy, although not in the home state of virginia ballot. neither is santorum. which is interesting. >> as you discussed last night the difference between neighbor state and home state. >> bret: trust me. i got it. >> gingrich wi...