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Look, we know that you have concerns, you have issues. take the issue of education. it was republicans in the state senate who pushed back on governor corbett and said this is not acceptable. people i represent in urban and rural and suburban pennsylvania want to be able to have their kids go to college without huge debt. we have great universities. it's one of our advantages in pennsylvania. and they pushed back and only cut 20%. but without that pushback, you know, we would have seen a cut of 50%. so i believe that i can talk to people outside of harrisburg, talk to people across pennsylvani...

Law under george bush. this is not easy to do in the environment that i'm in. but in harrisburg, i've served in harrisburg a number of years ago, for 14 years. and what you need to say is, look, we know that you have concerns, you have issues. take the issue of education. it was republicans in the state senate who pushed back on governor corbett and said this is not acceptable. people i represent in urban and rural and suburban pennsylvania want to be able to have their kids go to college without huge debt. we have great universities. it's one of our advantages in pennsylvania. and they pushed...

Rural and suburban pennsylvania want to be able to have their kids go to college without huge debt. we have great universities. it's one of our advantages in pennsylvania. and they pushed back and only cut 20%. but without that pushback, you know, we would have seen a cut of 50%. so i believe that i can talk to people outside of harrisburg, talk to people across pennsylvania and really bring them together too, but work with the legislature to get things done. >> if you were elected governor, you'd be the first female governor that pennsylvania ever had. and while that is an exciting prospect o...

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...

Road for rick santorum, but is the story going to be tonight how close of a second he can make it to mitt romney? >> reporter: well, we'll have to see how it unfolds. what has been a surprise is the sort of unexpected strength of mitt romney and in talking to voters in the state of alabama, especially yesterday, they talked to us about liking really all three dominant candidates here. romney, santorum and gingrich. and as that one voter whose comments you just played talked about the whole electability issue, many voters factor that in because they want a strong candidate to challenge the pres...