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Muslim nominee, you said tell me about how many times a day you pray and do you really believe that allah stuff? not that you would ever say that. but what kind of reaction would you get if you did? >> exactly, can you imagine someone asking this of a muslim or someone who is jewish or a hindu or a sikh? any other religion. anyone who worships other than in a catholic or a christian or a mormon background. i can't even imagine how that would ever be tolerated for a moment. we should not have to tolerate this. look, intolerance masquerading as tolerance is one of the most wicked things known to...

Pushed out, of all of the challenges that mormons in america faced as a way of generating a sense of empathy between being a mormon, something a lot of people have negative affect about, but being able to repackage it. i wonder is there any way the romney campaign might be doing a better job talking about lds than it currently is? as one of their strategies, they won't do it, won't talk about mormonism. they're going to keep that off the table. that was the strategy during the primary season. that may change for the general election because as you say, there are things that recommend him as a ...

Exit polls, and that's one of the funny things we're seeing tonight. if santorum turns out to be underreported. >> i want to show our map here, this is all the winning states from everything we've had so far. there's a little bit of a problem here for mitt romney if he doesn't get ohio. look at where his power -- he can win in new england, he can win by default in virginia, he can win where there's large mormon populations and in a state he grew up in. what if he can't win anywhere else? this is an issue, basically, his two bases that are unique to him, being a new england republican and being...

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." what's the latest on the fight between the front-runners. >> reporter: wolf, it's pretty clear last night's debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that's because there's a lot riding on the next several days. >> i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. >> reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. >> i don't know that i've ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his -- >> you're entitled to your opini...

Does, because you talk about the role that evangelical voters play in republican politics today, and it's really more pronounced than it's ever been before. that's true in states like michigan and ohio, but it's really true in the south. and there's going to be, you know, five or six contests coming up in the next few weeks down south, and where rick santorum has really faced sort of a challenge. there's a lot of, sort of, you know, inborn resistance in the south to a candidate like romney because of his mormon background, but rick santorum is not necessarily the best candidate to take advanta...