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Very narrow ly, he lost the birmingham area narrowly, expect the cosmopolitan areas to go well for romney. looks like a state that mitt romney shouldn't win, the big difference between tennessee, oklahoma, by the romney folks to make conservative, split vote, curious how it fully plays out you get a sense romney had more sustained time to make his case to voters will in previous states, highs like this, rejected him. >> looks like rick santorum, home state -- city of pittsburgh is up against three hammers here, one, up against romney himself, which is not so shattering an opponent to have. two...

Carolina and others -- rick santorum did not win that. it was a split vote. newt did very well. rick is claiming that he is the victor there. newt gingrich has unique talents. he has the ability to speak over the press and over the people and show leadership -- over the opponents and speak directly to the people of the united states. they want a strong person to tackle the very difficult issues that we have today. he has that ability because he's turned the ship astate before. he can do it again. >> john brabender, john livingston, thank you both. polls close in 80 minutes. our south carolina ...

Forward to. he's running this race like he's already in the general, like his opponent is already obama. but you have all these other candidates. perry, paul, gingrich and santorum fighting amongst themselves for a coal coalesced conservative base. this is a vote really that looks a lot like the huckabee vote in 2008. he got about 30% of the vote. of course, lost in 2008 to john mccain. he got about 33% of the vote. i think you'll be looking at a split vote going into this primary on saturday. but again, this ultimately benefits mitt romney. in some ways, ultimately i think also benefits barac...

Pennsylvania. we need you to marry up your heart and your head. i've got friends that are supporting rick perry. gingrich, santorum. there are tea party members that are supportingç romney because they believe he's the most elected. i wouldn't couch it as a negative that they're having a difficult time rallying around a candidate. i think it's a positive. >> here is the deal. you're talking about all of the tea party members that you spoke with and they wanted to support a different person, that splits your vote. we know and i've spoken wp a number of members of the tea party who is not conv...

That there will be a split vote in some of the early contests. the anti-romney vote will be split and ultimately voters will turn away from michele bachmann, away from ron paul, away from rick santorum and can hopes to support him in the long run. >> let's talk about this latest line of attacks from romney, directed at gingrich. he said in this "washington post" interview that newt gingrich is, quote, an extraordinarily unreliable leader in the conservative world. but back to that poll, the people who describe themselves as conservative, only 29% believe romney is a conservative compared to 57...