Carolina. they weren t outstanding in florida, in fact mitt romney was widely critiqued as having done better and you saw the results last night, a blowout in virtually every cat gore ree category vote demographics. martha: newt gingrich had a lot of strength after his win in south carolina. not great strength when he came into florida. he s been fluid by that more than anything in this campaign and is going to have a little absence of debate time up there on the stage to fix that problem in the coming weeks. carl, thank you very much. great coverage, we ll see you soon. carl cameron in tampa, florida. bill: looking back night at the results on the touch screen billboard here. we wanted to drill down a little bit between romney and gingrich and the outcome. romney is in the florida orange, gingrich is in the lime i think we will call it. this is where gingrich s strength came in. a lot of these areas are evangelical voters, strong conservatives, southern voters as well.
Police are investigating this case. sad news to learn learn don cornelius was found dead in his california apartment. bill: all 50 delegates in florida are in the hand of mitt romney. he won a solid victory last night that is winner-take-all in florida, beating newt gingrich by double digits. phil keating follows up this morning live in tampa, florida. so romney s victory speech was not the only victory speech, phil? what happened? reporter: that was somewhat after surprise last night, bill. good morning to you. he received two congratory calls, one from rick santorum and ron paul. not from newt gingrich. typically the victor goes out to the crowd and addresses the crowd last. last night it was mitt romney coming on 30 minutes after the polls closed in florida, giving a boisterous and festive
the exit poll said interestingly me last night that they see him as the true conservative but they didn t like him. they voted against him on personal terms. the answer to your question is they are not listening but they want to. bill: gretchen do you site the same way? i can completely agree. if you look at the exit polls mitt romney won those who thought he what s hrebtable, those most concerned about the economy, he won those folks by 20 points and he split the tea party, he didn t win the strong tea party vote. that shows us that newt needs to calm down, act presidential, talk about the issues that the americans care about, that is the economy and also be that conservative. bill: more to your point to tea party. he split the vote of the generally supportive tea party. yes but not the strong, he won the strong. bill: but he won the strong tea party voters. he said last night, doug, he s going to he has 46 more states to go. you need organization, money,
Better shot. they talked about last night the importance of staying in the race. you need to draw that contrast. we need someone who can be a conservative nominee. you know what? in florida, newt gingrich had his opportunity. he came out of the state of south carolina. he came out with a big win and a lot of money. he said i m going to be the conservative alternative. i will be the anti-mitt. it didn t work. he became the issue. we can t allow our nominee to be the issue in the campaign. a few months ago, there were, how many candidates? there were nine. we re down to four. but tonight, tonight i saw a statistic we re in third place when it comes to delegates and that s what really counts. [cheers and applause] martha: paul never fails to get his group fired up. he did last night. he is counting on caucus states like nevada to deliver his delegates and keep him going in this race. bill: that s the bottom line, right. martha: we love ron paul at end of the evening speeches. he comes out fired up and
Question. we ll get her take what is happening so far when congresswoman michele bachmann joins us in the next hour. obviously she could help him with some of the tea party strength and very conservative folks did not necessarily rally to him in big numbers last night. we have this morning as well. president obama to lay out his plan to help homeowners who owe more than their homes than the homes are actually worth. those are called underwater mortgages as we ve all become too familiar with. his new plan would let the homeowners refinance at a much lower rate. that would potentially save families thousands of dollars a year. a very popular plan for the homeowners but is it good for the economy? fox business network stuart varney, anchor of varney & company . how many times have we had the plans? is this number five or six? i lost count but this is the new one. the broad outlines are as you stated, martha. if you have good credit and up-to-date with your mortgage you will be able to refinance even if you re