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Michigan, utah and massachusetts. four years ago he won all three of the states. is there any one of them a must-win for romney? no. in reality, isn't that true that because of the proportional delegates in the early part here someone could get seconds and still get the delegate needed to 1144? >> absolutely. it's a huge blow. he talks about it as the home state. he is glad to come home. he won by nine points over john mccain in 2008. couples with losses to santorum, and missouri and iowa. it shows he is not doing well in that part of the country, important part of the country. the number of s...

Would win michigan. not that he what to. that he was going to win it. a few days ago he had a 28-point lead in arizona. that is slipping away. but back to michigan. it means that he has to wrestle the campaign from rick santorum. he loses the built-in advantages there, he will have a terrible super tuesday and really, santorum catches up to him in delegates. the entire expectation game is over for romney. he is invincible and inevitable. he then becomes the underdog. he has to take the nomination from rick santorum. >> bret: steve, i didn't mean to short shift the gallup poll, because ten poin...

And you had romney officials out today, saying michigan is not a must-win for the romney campaign. you had santorum folks saying it's romney country. expectations? >> i think the question is whether everything that santorum has been saying that has been message about social issues, contraception, about the church and prenatal testing and everything, whether it catches up with him in michigan. whether it hurts him with a republican primary electorate. one thing you see covering campaign, involved in twitter and the internet and listening to this stuff. a day you go to campaign event and people ...

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Says he is no longer a budget hawk. i am. i don't want to spend more money than we take in. >> romney and santorum spent time campaigning today in the critical primary state of ohio. one of the super tuesday states. everyone is looking at next week's contest in michigan and arizona. the latest polls in michigan suggest the race is tightening there. the latest poll of likely michigan voters has santorum 37, romney 33, paul 15 and gingrich 10. the real clear politics average has santorum up five over romney, with ron paul distant third at 11.3. newt gingrich at 9.8. on "fox news sunday" gingrich...