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The idea of being the insurgent is that you can steal momentum and build on it. we have seen a number try to get it and fail on it and then hold out. plan b was to stop mitt romney from getting enough delegates to take the nominee at the convention. that plan b is now collapsing. they're not playing the state conventions. they're not winning the caucuses. really there's nowhere left to go. >> if north dakota is a model for the rest of the states left. what's going to stop mitt romney from be the mas being the man? >> nothing is going to stop him from being the man. the race is effectively over...

Something. >> let's say he won every delegate from here on out, he wouldn't hit the magic number until may 29. that's demographically impossible for romney. if he wins just 60% of all the delegates, he doesn't do it until after the june 5 primaries, and if somehow he and santorum keep trading back and forth, so santorum loses tonight but it's fairly competitive, he wins saturday in louisiana, wins wisconsin but romney wins maryland on april 3rd and we have that back and forth with the remaining states, then i have romney about 50 delegates short by the time of the utah primary on june 26. now,...

>> we do a small conservative count because of these rules. you go there and it could be the paul people do better than they did on their vote, overperform. santorum's folks think they're going to do better at these state conventions. colorado is going to do this, minnesota, iowa, go down the list. and even in illinois, we're going to only have some of the delegates awarded, not all of them. >> on "the daily rundown" this morning, you made the case that a fractious, bitter primary battle like this is not very helpful to the republican party, using the 1964 example. i don't want anyone to get w...

Or if he gets there, he only gets there because unpledged, unbound delegates from iowa and minnesota somehow verbally agree that they will vote for him on first ballot, stand with him, all of those things. but he does -- santorum has no chance of getting 1,144. for romney, i hate to say, it's sort of a little better than 50/50. but that's it. >> what's the last state? >> utah. imagine if he goes into utah this close to sealing -- >> well, utah, we know he's going to get it all. the question are these state conventions. that's where this stuff -- this is the other media -- >> explain the state ...

chad myers has been following this for us. also live in atlanta. and chad, rafael says there was another tremor. what are you seeing? >> i am actually seeing that tremor on one of the size mo -- seismograms in southern california. the shaking was felt by the needle ps .thnee needles. these are the minutes as we go across. about one minute of shake. then right here, a secondary shake, chp wwhich would have bee after shock. maybe 5.5, although it hasn't been posted. there will be -- i know we push this to the back burn err little bit and said there's not a lot of damage. that is true. ...