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That person would have to have a few things working. name recognition, support from the conservative base, and i've already gone through some sort of vetting or scrutiny, some of the names floated out there that could pull this off mitch daniels of indiana, jeb bush of florida, paul ryan of wisconsin, and of course chris christie of new jersey. that's what's possible. now let's talk about what's realistic so late in the game. we'll look at this from a post super tuesday perspective here. there are three ways for a brand new gop candidate to get to -- get some delegates and maybe get to the mag...

Via their convention process. that's why you see states on both of those. and so that takes us to the super delegates. 120 of them. they're sort of party leaders. much smaller number of these folks. but some of them have already endorsed mitt romney, some, a couple maybe endorsed newt gingrich and rick santorum. but they're always up for grabs so to speak. so that brings us to our total here. right? the 491 delegates that you could get in primaries if you filed, if you got into the race sometime between now and super tuesday. another 423 delegates you could go and see if you could get at state...

Coalesce not in primaries, but at party conventions to pick their candidates so we can go four square against incumbents united and not wait until september when the primary season ends to pick our candidates. the more we can be united early at state conventions in may and june, the better off we will be as a party and the more republicans we'll elect in november. >> chris, if this is something that is more widespread than florida, what can the democrats do? we showed a poll by gallup that made it seem like they're bleeding independents and those independents are self identifying, according to...

Season. state party chairs don't have i'm to fire the chairmen themselves. they have to worry about their own state conventions. at this point, he's a lake dum chairman. >> he won't be around in 2012 but finish out the cycle most likely. >> mark murray on this story which is amazing it's in its eighth day. >> all right, mark, thanks. the federal government is looking to lay a huge fine against toyota. a record $16.4 million penalty for the automaker's alleged failure to quickly tell regulators about gad pedal problems. phil lebeau covers the car industry for us. seems like regulators are sendi...

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