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It, people like me. >> rick santorum, you may be a nice guy or you may not be a nice guy. frankly, i don't care. >> i like being able to fire people. >> i'm not going to do what you all think i'm going to do which is just flip out. >> let's get right to our esteemed panel. james patterson is director of africana studies and professor of english at lehigh university and ken vogel is chief investigative reporter for politi politico. welcome to both of you. i want to start with the opinion piece in the "new york times" everyone's talking about. the top executive at goldman sachs resigning with a ...

Know, not have everybody coalesce behind santorum. so it was really last night. had nothing 0 much to do about romn romney. it was all about was this going to be a two-man race. that is increasingly what it looks like. >> professor dyson, more than three-quarts of the voters in mississippi and alabama were evangelical christians, 80% and 83% this they showed no love for mitt. perhaps more alarmingly, they do appear to be coalescing around santorum. does that make rick a real threat in this race do you think or do you take romney's view and his camp's view that they still are likely to be the n...

Victory necessarily. >> indeed. professor dyson, we've seen a slew of polls with varying results on the president's approval rating from 41% as you know to 50. are the polls broken or are we just that far from being able to tie the president's approval with things like gas prices? >> yeah, it's very difficult to tell. i mean, as you've already pointed out in regard to mr. romney, these polls don't exactly track scientifically because when he's supposed to be winning, he's not really doing so. he comes up with a few surprises here and there. so the mechanics of trying to determine whether or no...

Mr. romney, that those who are evangelical piusists will in any way concede the legitimacy of the more mon faith. on top of that, santorum seems to be charging with a full head of steam and also got more enthusiasm. has anybody looked lessenthus yas tick about being the front-runner than mitt romney? >> his wife looks pretty unenthusiastic on most occasions. >> i'll leave that to them to decide domestically. the reality is that, of course, rick santorum does prove to be a serious problem here. and as both guests have indicated, he's not going away jentsly into that night but he's raging agains...

University professor microal eric dyson, michele cottle of news week and the daily beefrt and the senior writer from the salon.com. congratulations, steve. i have to start with you and i read your article the moment mitt's dreaded. with all the campaign disasters there have been for this man, i guess if he did drink alcohol, he would be crying into his beer today, wouldn't? >> he >> yeah, or at least maybe a little more apprehensive about the future of this race than he's probably had reason to be because he's kind of been protected from the beginning of this process by the fact that there wer...