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Campaign seems joyless. there is an analysis of the e-mails that the campaign has sent out and such a marked contrast between four years ago when they were talking policy and this year where, again, it's just sort of these attacks and this cajoling and this sort of long, hard slog. but i want you to put mitt romney's trip into sort of a historical frame because there's so many people that say campaigns doesn't matter, that the style of something doesn't matter, that a couple of gaffes here and there doesn't matter. i'm a big proponent of long, tough, hard, brudish, nasty campaigns because if y...

>> i don't care what the unemployment rate is going. >> reporter: illinois had a more favorable electorate for romney than the southern states that voted last week. 234810 voters hailed from the suburbs. less than half called themselves evangelicals and only a quarter expressed a desire to see their candidates share their religious views. but the republican race will continue to be a long, hard slog. romney's won more than double the delegates that santorum has. but he is still not even halfway to the magic number he needs to clinch the nomination. romney and his allies have paid a pretty penn...

>> that's nothing. >> back rub. >> back rub, shoot a friend. >> that was kind of cute. >> looked like merkel was more offended by the back rub than cheney's friend was the shotgun to the face. let's talk about mitt romney dodged a bullet. how important was that? >> that was crucial. could you imagine the conversation this morning if he lost one or both of those? >> game changer. >> while the most important thing is while he came off the victory in new hampshire, down in florida, don't go into prevent defense now. he has really got to stay on offense. this is going to be a continued hard slog. ...

To use that spree -- that veto power. a short time ago a russian source told fox that "they will not allow this draft to pass in its current form," so the search is on for language this could bring the russians on board or at least have them only abstain rather than veto. as part of the search, secretary of state hillary clinton met with her french and british counterparts today but this is going to be a long, hard slog to get the russians on board and we are not likely to get to a vote until some time tomorrow. >>shepard: the syrian president has important support in that region, doesn't he? ...

governor romney has an enormous amount of money but we have an enormous amount of people. >> mitt romney needs to drag him down. >> he's gone from pillar to post. a pinball machine. >> a two-man grudge match in a four-man race. >> there's a lot of folks who talk tough. what makes you tough is at your core. >> no way going to stop the momentum that we have started. >> who will return to florida this summer? as the republican nominee? >> i will go all the way to the convention. i expect to win the nomination. >> we're going to be in this race for a long time. >> forget everything you t...