showing in michigan even though it was mitt romney s home state. santorum coming in just three percentage points behind former governor romney. here s a possible reason for the tight race. michigan allows democrats to vote in its republican primary and there was a push to get some of these democrats to vote for santorum. in fact, that was the thrust of robo calls heard around the state over this past week, take a listen. on tuesday, join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts s mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. this call is supported by hard-working democratic men and women and paid for by rick santorum for president. jon: chief washington correspondent james rosen live in our d.c. bureau with more. james? reporter: i love this game, jon. mitt romney called it a dirty trick, attempted kidnapping of gop primary process. rick santorum suggested rob robocalls romney campaign
much success and how much money have you made in business. shepard: a lot of name calling today. mitt romney telling rick santorum using a dirty trick to try to kidnap the primaries. open election so democrats can vote too. listen to this robo call the santorum campaign is running. on tuesday, join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. this call is supported by hard-working democratic men and women and paid for by rick santorum for president. shepard: mitt romney calls that outrageous and disgusting. his words. it s a fight to the finish with much more than michigan s 30 delegates on the line tonight. a whole lot more. team fox coverage now. martha maccallum brand new information on exit polls. first to carl cameron at know via, michigan. these candidates went after each other today.
in today s republican primary something rick santorum hopes to use to his advantage. listen to this robocall that went out to democrats today in hopes of getting them out to vote. michigan democrats can vote in the republican primary on tuesday. why is it so important? romney supported the bailouts for his wall street billionaire buddies but opposed the auto bailouts. that was a slap in the face to every michigan worker and we re not going to let romney get away with it. on tuesday, join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. this call is supported by hard-working democratic men and women and paid for by rick santorum for president. tonight, we can report new exit poll data on who voted today in michigan. 10% of the voters say they are democrats. 31% say they are independents. 59% say they are republican. and that democratic number hasn t changed a whole lot since 2008. look at the number of combined
here to pepeka. no fatalities. nine people were injured there. one person critically injured. governor of kansas is declaring state of emergency there. let s get right to our meteorologist rob marciano who is tracking these storms for us. that same line that produced the tornadoes last night across parts of kansas and missouri moving into parts of kentucky and indiana and illinois. dangerous storm with a tornado dropped down to harrisburg, illinois, damage there and search and rescue actually under way. that s with this line and this cell moving just to the south of evansville, indiana, just to the north of hender son, kentucky. another storm just northeast of paducah. another one just southwest of that. these are strong storms moving quickly. 65 to 70 miles an hour. and in somepla places it s stil dark. tornado watch is up until noontime central for parts of kentucky and also it s kind of sliding back through just north of memphis. this storm is a big one. it stretches all
but. mitt romney and rick santorum are battling neck and neck on the final day of campaigning, votes underway this morning. they re expecting between 15-20% of the registered voters to take part. this is an open primary, and rick santorum has been aggressively courting them with a controversial robo call for which he has been much criticized by mitt romney asking democrats and independents to join the santorum labor union support and vote against mitt romney and back santorum. listen to this call. on tuesday join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. this call is supported by hard working democratic men and women and paid for by rick santorum for president. reporter: all the polls suggest this is, basically, a dead even tie heading into the final count of real votes today, and as a consequence it s very close, and this robo call deeply offends mitt romney.