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Robins robinson, thank you for being here. >> great to be here, rachel. on a primary night. >> they keep happening. and they keep mattering. i got to ask you the big picture, question for tonight, gene, how do you feel about it being right now a too close to call three-way race in alabama and mississippi? obviously we don't have a determine tiff result in either case but is the fact it's close itself a big story tonight? it is a big story, and it's fascinating because just a few percentage points are going to make all the difference in our perception of what happened tonight. just a few vote...

Ideological race against mitt romney. if he loses to mitt romney, that argument becomes weaker. >> let me ask you both about what we're seeing from the exit polls tonight, this preponderance of voters identifying themselves as white evangelicals, that number being a high absolute value number is not a surprise for deep south primary. but i wonder if either of you have any insight why we are seeing proportion of white evangelicals overall be more than 10 points higher this year than it was in the republican primaries four years ago? let me ask either of you if you have insight in that, john? >>...

Tonight, do you think he can remain a viable candidate? >> no, the race will be in the final stages for him, ehe'll hae tough decision. he talked about putting together a southern strategy to remain viable. that means he has to win these states, not come in second or third. >> if he won big say the hyalaba would that be enough or is it both places? >> he articulated it means winning the southern states. you can't run a race where you're trying to be the most conservative candidate and lose one of the two most conservative states in the race with the most conservative primaries electorates and ...

In part because of the strange way that the republican party allocates delegates, if you put alabama and mississippi together, they offer 90 delegates tonight. and that is something only surpassed in the republican race by new york, california and texas. right now, both mississippi and alabama are described by nbc news by too close to call. mississippi, 47% of the vote in. rick santorum with 33, newt gingrich 31, mitt romney at 30. in alabama, similarly a thr three-ray race. newt rick santorum at 34, gingrich with romney at 28%. here is a reality check, we're not quite halfway through the re...

Places. is rick santorum's narrative sort of helped by the fact that he won even though mitt romney blanketed him in money? >> yeah, and i think that if you look at the race right now, the spending advantage, it doesn't help -- it doesn't help rick santorum to be outspent for sure, but it's also not debilitating to him in terms of being able to win these races. and as you move now forward into what's really effectively going to become a two-person race, an ideological contest with rick santorum running as the conservative candidate, it pulls mitt romney into these situations, for example, wher...