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President. i would rather have a democrat. i would be comfortable. i think romney has shown in the past in his previous years as a moderate or progressive that he was fairly competent as a governor and also running the olympics, as you know, he's a good solid family man. >> carter said he expects obama to be re-elected, though. >> just call it the tax-free township. union township in indiana not collecting property taxes this year. what? you know why? it has a large surplus. the trustee says the township ended 2011 up more than $400,000. that's an anomaly. he says the surpluses were built up o...

Crossing fingers there wouldn't be a time-out. once there's a time-out in this market, there's a romney ad. and it's just possible that this overwhelming advantage and as you know down state where the commercials are going to not cost near as much as they do up here, santorum has a real uphill slump. >> that's a big difference. crystal, over the weekend s santorum dodged the questions about whether or not he's prepping for this convention. take a listen. >> we still believe there are plenty of delegates out there to do what we've been doing which is going out there and winning states and the t...

Dogged his image, his campaign up to now are showing themselves here. it showed 47% of self-described republican voters this tuesday do not like the candidates on the ballot for president and the largest element of in a 46% were self-described likely to be rom any voters. >> as you hear all of this, do you think illinois is make or break for any of these candidates? >> i don't. we have been saying that about each state in the process and yet, we still have four candidates still in the race who are still all vowing to go to the convention and i -- we have to take them at their word on that righ...

Since then, no cigar smoke, no wise guys in back rooms. the 1976 race came close with ronald reagan taking the fight against gerald ford all the way to the convention. but then ford squeaked by, clinched the nomination before losing to jimmy carter. a brokered convention is a much more elusive animal. the various candidates have to attract delegate thes because they are bound by state rules to vote for a specific candidate based on showing in a primary caucus or convention, that has to fail first. if it did fail, if the ballot dead locked, these delegates could be released from those rules if ...

Nominees were selected. they weren't going to wheel and deal behind closed doors. republican followed suit a few years later. since then, no cigar smoke, no wise guys in back rooms. the 1976 race came close with ronald reagan taking the fight against gerald ford all the way to the convention. but then ford squeaked by, and chinlinch ld the nomination before lose to go jimmy carter. a brokered convention is a much more elusive animal. the various candidates have to fail to attract enough delegates outright because, quote, many are bound by state rules to vote for a specific candidate based on s...