and rick santorum has appealed to that coalition. robert, do you have a prediction? how close will it be? it s going to be very close. i think it will go late into the evening. we ll know our victor, but remember, because delegates get selected by congressional district, there will be probably a good spread of delegates won around the state. thank you for coming on. good to see you. newt s bold predictions, rick s latest rant and mitt makes sul sylvester? next. who are the business entrepreneurs of the week? seven years ago jesse and rick bought a movie plex that couldn t compete with the big chains. they upgraded with state-of-the-art technologies and lobby renovations. the atrium is one of the remaining complexes now in the area. watch your business at 7:30 on
the primary. santorum claims he s the conservative alternative to mitt romney. michigan is key to president obama s re-election chances. today, he addressed the united auto workers convention in washington taking two swipes at romney s 2008 ad, including this. the other option was to do absolutely nothing, and let these companies fail. you will recall there were some politicians who said we should do that. some even said we should let detroit go bankrupt. romney and santorum opposed the auto industry bailout. what does your gut tell you? who do you think that a better chance of defeating president obama in michigan? go to facebook.com/newsnation.
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 wit. on tuesday join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. well, mitt romney fired back this morning saying santorum has a lot of explaining to do. it s a dirty trick, it s outrageous to see rick santorum team up with the obama people and go after union labor in detroit to try to get them to vote against men me. i m joined by mark burr, good to see you, good morning. thank you. you have given an endorsement to democrats to vote in the primary do. you think they will show up and do you think it was a dirty trick? our policy is people should not crossover, but there s a 50-year history of people in michigan crossing over. republicans have crossed into our primaries. it s going to happen today.
people have been voting all day. polls close at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. we begin our coverage with john yang. he s in a detroit suburb of troy, michigan. what are folks saying there? reporter: analysts say the only way to describe it is a toss up today. the polls in the closing hours suggest the momentum may have gone back to rick santorum. here in oakland county in troy, michigan where romney won big in 2008, the people we ve been talking to are disagreeing about who they are voting for, but they agree on the goal and that s to find the best candidate to beat president obama this fall. for mitt romney, i feel he s the best qualified. i think he has a good chance of beating obama. i think rick santorum has the best chance for us being a down to earth guy that can take care
[ jocelyn ] my name is jocelyn, and i m a cancer survivor. [ mimi ] i had cancer. i have no evidence of disease now. [ erica ] i would love to meet the people that made the machines. i had such an amazing group of doctors and nurses, it would just make such a complete picture of why i m sitting here today. [ herb ] from the moment we walked in the front door, just to see me not as a cancer patient, but as a person that had been helped by their work, i was just blown away. life s been good to me. i feel like one of the luckiest guys in the world. hi, everybody. coming up, no shortage of drama as voters hit the poll in arizona and michigan. will mitt romney prove to be the favorite son o is rick santorum the conservative alternative.