commander in chief of the united states military when he can t qualify in virginia and fully qualify in ohio? it makes no sense to me. i suspect your reference to a book tour was gingrich. yes. people have said that is what gingrich is doing. he would vigorously deny that. look, tony, romney comes out of this thing, winning more states, more popular vote, more delegates in all practical terms. is he not only a win or super tuesday, but the very clear frontrunner for the nomination? he always has been the frontrunner, but it s a matter of how strong or weak i could count three other frontrunners for a while? he s been the presumptive frontrunner since the start. there are the anti-romney, but romney has kept a cadence toward the top. here s the big thing. if you take all the delegates of all the anti-romney candidates, mitt romney has a commanding delegate lead. as everyone has referenced until
key swing state in the general election for mitt romney. i mean, we will see how it turns out as the night goes on, early on it certainly shows some weakness. vermont, my lord, right next door to massachusetts everybody thought that was going to be a give me for mitt romney and the fact again it s too close to call at least early in the evening shows some weakness for mitt romney. shepard: virginia has different groups of populations vote for different reasons. virginia is a southern state, obviously. what does this tell us about southern voters, especially evangelicals and whether or not they will be be able to come around to mitt romney? if it is so close right now between romney and ron paul in the state of virginia, so close that we can t even yet call it with just those two candidates in there, you would have to assume in the early going that a lot of that is an anti-romney. and that come later on in this process, will southerners, particularly evangelical southerners wake up on
the country. the heart of the republican party and a party you re going to see more of a social conservative and evangelicals coming into play. will antimormanism come into play there? we don t know. spend sog much money in michigan and elsewhere trying to develop momentum he drained funds as he goes on. because especially if you throw in gingrich tonight there is a strong antiromney sentiment in the republican party. this is the first speech i heard mitt romney mention his web site and donations and people should contribute. this is a man dropping 30 plus million of his own money and doesn t want to do it again. i think the bottom line in this for rick santorum is that you can t escape your reputation. for decades he s built a reputation as leader in the social conservative movement. i think the bottom line is
won the popular vote. if sabt santorum ends up getting more delegates they re going to press the case very hard. and the feeling in romney s camp has to be of relief. i thought he gave a good speech. i suspect he ll go back to the economy and in what is interesting from his speech i thought is that he seem today. pand his criticism of president obama and included longer passage on entitlement reform in which he said the president hasn t had the courage to layout a plan for reforming entitlements in the way that i have. i think that is a critique of president obama s leadership. and we could remember tonight as the night that mitt romney really turned a corner and put all of the anti-romney to bed. if he is able to sustain going forward going into ohio. but into that southern area of
won the popular vote. if sabt santorum ends up getting more delegates they re going to press the case very hard. and the feeling in romney s camp has to be of relief. i thought he gave a good speech. i suspect he ll go back to the economy and in what is interesting from his speech i thought is that he seem today. pand his criticism of president obama and included longer passage on entitlement reform in which he said the president hasn t had the courage to layout a plan for reforming entitlements in the way that i have. i think that is a critique of president obama s leadership. and we could remember tonight as the night that mitt romney really turned a corner and put all of the anti-romney to bed. if he is able to sustain going forward going into ohio. but into that southern area of