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Fight to balance the budget. bill clinton signed it. welfare reform, debt paid off. these delegates know this. they know that rick santorum did not do that and certainly know that mitt romney is not only didn't do this he's not even one of us. >> erick erickson, red state's erick erickson has written something you are not going to like. i want you to listen to this word for word. >> par for the course. >> newt gingrich last night proved he is neither a regional candidate nor a spoiler. his influence is heading in to ron paul territory. doesn't get more insulting than that. gingrich's final act...

Remaining delegates to clinch the nomination and rick santorum needs to win 63%. the only thing standing in rick santorum's way seems to be newt gingrich. the "new york times" nate silver analyzed public policy polling that ask canned republicans in five states who they would vote for if newt gingrich dropped out of the race. slightly more than half, 57% of mr. gingrich's supporters would two to rick santorum and about a quarter, 27% would go to mr. romney. the remainder 16% would actually go to ron paul. now, if we applied those percentages to last night's races, instead of winning alabama by...

Joining me now editorial director of aol "huffington post" and msnbc political host howard fineman and chief adviser to george w. bush mark mckinnon. when you look at these math exercises we are dogging right now, not quite college-board level math problem s but if you took gingrich out, look at that. santorum would be in the 50s. he would be getting di vice i have majority victories in these things. >> he would but you have to say what is the incentive for gingrich to get out? the math is if he stays in romney probably doesn't get the number of delegates he needs to win on the first ballot of...

Santorum would have won with 51% to mitt romney's 39%. joining me now editorial director of aol "huffington post" and msnbc political host howard fineman and chief adviser to george w. bush mark mckinnon. when you look at these math exercises we are dogging right now, not quite college-board level math problem s but if you took gingrich out, look at that. santorum would be in the 50s. he would be getting di vice i have majority victories in these things. >> he would but you have to say what is the incentive for gingrich to get out? the math is if he stays in romney probably doesn't get the num...

Because that was a two-person race. at some point somebody had to realize that somebody was going to get a majority of the delegates. in a three or four person race that is not the case. gingrich is right. they can tag team and extend this thing. it is about leverage. where is the maximum leverage for one of these candidates to stay in or out and to me it is all for staying in. >> howard, some republicans, bill crystal is trying to insist this is all good for the party. he said today if romney were to earn the nomination in these circumstances he would be far better off than if he had clinched...