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Will maybe rick santorum isn't everything he's cracked up to be. remember the delegate math is close to determinative. the way he's staying in the race is saying i'm the real conservative, romney isn't. the romney team is doing everything they can do to say is this guy really conservative? santorum was from pennsylvania. he also endorsed arlen specter in a very contested and very idealogical primary in 2004 that specter beat pat toomey narrowly in. so he's doing -- he is being a good team player, but being a good team player in a republican presidential primary is not always rewarded. so again...

Done the mechanical homework you need to do to put yourself in a position to be competitive nonetheless it's going to be a close election. the way returns will come in tonight, cook county in the northern part of the state first and then down state will trickle in. you could see a big lead early for romney but it could be a close race. nonetheless, the math going forward a lot of talk about delegate math, is really challenging for gingrich and for santorum. the race goes to louisiana, there's a proportional allocation of delegates. >> yep. >> and then head up this direction. good fertile terri...

Thinks he has a chance to walk away as the nominee. maybe does he. >> chuck todd, give us a little bit of the arguments we're going to hear about delegate math. we talked about this a little bit last night. nobody really knows how many delegates these people have at this point. >> we're actually trying to find -- [ inaudible ] >> overallocated caucuses and a lot of other media outlets are doing that. the way the caucuses work on this republican side is a lot different than the democrats do. and most of these delegates haven't been elected yet. whether it's colorado, minnesota, for instance on ...

Focused on one thing, delegates. while he lost the votes, he was behind the scenes made sure he hadn't lost in delegates. even though mitt romney lost alabama and mississippi, here is a message from his campaign today. "tuesday's results actually increased governor romney's delegate lead. opponents moves closer to their date of mathematical elimination." that sounds so final, doesn't it? this is a delegate fight now. when barack obama was in the midst of his own delegate fight he was prepared for it. his campaign hired a strategist. berman was the most respected authority on the dark art of de...