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Own nature. you have tennessee, ohio and virginia where newt gingrich is not on the ballot in that state. this map we saw yesterday may or may not change depending on what happens over the coming five weeks now. we are off and running here. how does that florida orange change all the landscape for the candidates? john roberts is tracking that down. he s live in las vegas now. good morning. reporter: good morning to you, bill. it s the first in the west competition here, the republican nomination, the caucuses coming up on saturday. mitt romney won and one big back in 2008. guess who came second? john mccain? no. ron paul came second, and it s expected to ron paul is going to do even better this time around than he did four years ago. this is turning into a two-man race between mitt romney and ron paul. what are the big issues at stake here? there are four of them, jobs, jobs, jobs, and the housing crisis. this is a state that was one of the fastest growing in the ....
Winner. some are hybrids, partly proportional, partly take all. one of thefp is virginia, virginia has almost 50 delegates to give away. newt gingrich didn t qualify for the ballot there. tennessee has 60 delegates to give away. newt gingrich didn t qualify for the delegates there. he s hopeful about his home state of georgia, which will be giving away 76 delegates, 26 more than florida offered last night. factor in some of the other southern states that will be going to the balance ot box soon, you can see why newt gingrich argues this schedule favors him over romney. the add that after florida this is over makes no sense at all. we go into a long stretch of proportional represent taeugts. we have no evidence he can get 50% anywhere yet. we ll see how he does tomorrow night. until he starts winning 50% or more. if you sake rick santorum s vote and my vote i bet it s bigger than his vote tuesday night. reporter: there are a series of states coming up as you can see where governor r ....