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Mitt romney has. they re flying by the seat of their pants. they have smart people who have worked in politics. they just don t have the ammunition behind them. i think they don t know for sure. but i do think that they feel they ve gotten enough out tonight, north dakota to go with tennessee and oklahoma that they can go fight in the south next week, go to alabama and mississippi, get on television and try to make mitt romney prove that he deserves the nomination of a party that is founded on conservative ideology and rick santor sum doing better among very conservative people. and that s the hallmark is the south right now. the base is the south, and rick santorum, if he can prove he can win in the south and mitt romney can t. that makes it more difficult for romney to go forward and wrap up the nomination in anything approaching a rapid fashion. i think it seems quite likely if i were the santorum campaign, i would be trying to dampen ....
He s been talking to the santorum campaign specifically about ohio. we don t know who has won. how does the santorum campaign feel about what they re seeing so far in terms of results? well, rachel, i just got off the phone with rick santorum s campaign manage r who s in stubenville in the gymnasium and the candidate just got done speaking. they re upstairs looking at their computer screens. what he told me is that they are waiting for some of their strong votes to come in, especially from counties in the northwestern part of the state. i m looking at a map of ohio, including williams county and fulton county in the northwest where they think they will do very well and are doing very well. they re also waiting for votes from southeastern ohio, including jefferson county and some those counties near stubenville along the ohio river. they know they re not getting delegates from there, rachel as ....
Matched by optimism on the romney side? it is. they re a pretty cautious group in such situations. this is one of those crazy situations, you treat this like campaign a and campaign b. the romney campaign, compared to the santorum campaign, they have delegate counters and know where the vote is at. the santorum campaign is like a medium sized senate race, they don t have as good a whoeld on it, their view is not necessarily as informative as the promny campaign, which again for hours has been supremely confident looking at where the vote is at. it s interesting to think that the santorum campaign could be a little mack developian here and trying to reduce expectations so if they win it seems like more of a knockout blow than if they don t. is it your sense that the santorum campaign doesn t know as mark is inta mating there? no, i totally agree with mark, this is a very much a rag tag campaign compared to the very professional operation that ....
358,742 for santorum, 356,172 for romney. the difference of about 3,000 votes. both of these men joining me have been speaking with the respective campaigns that are battling it out in ohio right now. john harwood, let me start with you, i understand you ve been talking to the rick santorum campaign. what are they hearing and how are they feel something. i ran through the santorum campaign. the view of team romney that the outstanding vote in cuyahoga county is ultimately going to carry mitt romney over the top. the response that i got was, they may be right. it doesn t sound like the santorum campaign is terribly confident right now that this lead is going to hold. we ve been surprised multiple times in this campaign. in terms of what the romney campaign is saying now, is the pessimism on the santorum side ....