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45-41. this was interesting. obama, santorum 44-44. after this hat trick by rick santorum the other night has rick santorum can he take this from romney? >> i believe he can. the reason is first of all i've been saying the candidate who presents the strongest con trat tras to obama conservatives will get behind. conservatives have been waiting to see, there an electability factor and lot are jumping on the bandwagon. >> and i have a deep opinion. >> clearly the narrative republican voters are not real enthusiastic or warm right now if about governor romney. they are looking for the other conse...

Of thoats those moments, could even you get behind him? >> that not going to happen. i think newt is more like brutus. he says he will go all the way to the end and all that will do is hurt mitt romney. newt gingrich is the anti-candidate. he's anti-loud audience, anti-silent audience. he's a grumpy old man, sad sack sore loser. megyn: what about rick santorum. he tried to keep it above board. he has been louded as the most conservative in this race. but why aren't we discussing him? >> it's going to go on. but at some point people have to start listening including newt and rick. rick is runni...

Debates where his performance was not as strong. does the electability factor go up and down depending on the debate performance. >> reporter: you've got it. if you like somebody you think he ise isee electable. it may be a ration my liization, someone who wants to vote for mitt romney or newt gingrich could say they aree are electable. megyn: no more debates before tomorrow night's big, big event in florida. we will be on special coverage at 8:00. we have new polling for newt gingrich today. if you have been following speaker gingrich you may have heard more than once the candidate describing...

Has had executive elected experience. that's the only person i think we have left in the game who can turn the economy around. >> what about the electability factor. if you want to change the post, heretofore it was thought that mitt romney was the most electable candidate. if you look at the exit polls on south carolina on this issue it showed that newt gingrich was the one to get 51% to 37% for mitt romney. so what will -- will that carry over to florida? >> it was in response to an unfair media attack. the american public and floridians, south carolinians they don't like that. they rebel ag...

And they don't think he's going to win. so what's the sell? i'm not sure he knows what he stands for. and that makes it harder too. >> she's raising the electability factor. democrats have 75 house districts and need to plan at least 50 of them if they hope to win back the 25 seats they need for her to become speaker again.