welcome back to special republican primary election coverage here on "the ed show" on msnbc. rick santorum is the projected winner in alabama, despite newt gingrich's efforts to win another southern state. santorum is the projected winner in mississippi and he has, therefore, taken both of these southern states tonight. and where does this leave mitt romney? let's turn to nbc news political director chuck todd. chuck? the delegate count. where are we tonight? what does tonight mean? >> well, let's do that first. all right. i'll go there. that is simply -- i've been doing back of the envelope math. we have two more contests tonight. right. we have american samoa. in the islands, territories in the pacific, there are large mormon populations out there. if you watch college basketball,