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Joining me now editorial director of aol "huffington post" and msnbc political host howard fineman and chief adviser to george w. bush mark mckinnon. when you look at these math exercises we are dogging right now, not quite college-board level math problem s but if you took gingrich out, look at that. santorum would be in the 50s. he would be getting di vice i have majority victories in these things. >> he would but you have to say what is the incentive for gingrich to get out? the math is if he stays in romney probably doesn't get the number of delegates he needs to win on the first ballot of...

Santorum would have won with 51% to mitt romney's 39%. joining me now editorial director of aol "huffington post" and msnbc political host howard fineman and chief adviser to george w. bush mark mckinnon. when you look at these math exercises we are dogging right now, not quite college-board level math problem s but if you took gingrich out, look at that. santorum would be in the 50s. he would be getting di vice i have majority victories in these things. >> he would but you have to say what is the incentive for gingrich to get out? the math is if he stays in romney probably doesn't get the num...

For more, let's talk with paul west, national political correspondent for the washington bureau of the tribune company. paul, looking in the rearview mirror mirror a week or so ago, we had super tuesday. kind of inconclusive. you say today might shape this republican race more so than super tuesday did. what do you mean? >> well, a couple of things, jon. first of all, as carl was just saying, this is a very big day for newt gingrich. if he doesn't win both of those states -- and it's going to be tough for him to do that -- he has a hard time making an argument that he has a rationale for going...

people have already watched it. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." rk vk -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> all that coming up, but now we get the latest on the kansas republican caucuses. >> i'm don lemon at the cnn newsroom. kansas takes the spotlight in the republican race today. cnn is projecting that rick santorum has won the kansas caucuses. here's the totals here, check them out with nearly all the caucus votes counted, santorum won easily there. he has 51%. romney has a distant seco...

Going to give use and the state that romney won tonight, georgia allows newt gingrich to stay in the race. >> absolutely that. is what is going on. there is romney wing again. and let's take a look from santorum's point of view. carl. he wins oklahoma, tennessee and surprised he won in north dakota. he basically goes outmanned with momentum romney got in michigan he's fought to a dead heat and what can he take from this night? >> he gets to go on. the question is where he's allowed to translate what happened to him in tennessee and oklahoma and not beat gingrich out. before he gets one on one ...