florida resurgence with richard wolf. a lot of people are looking at this, seeing the fact there was a big the new york times article on the romney team resetting after south carolina, the debacle. is this mitt romney s to lose? he has done the work and organization to sew it up there. what you need to focus on is the amount of money romney spent over and above what gingrich spent. that s $12 million difference between the two of them. these numbers can be crazy. we lose track of what the scale is on these things, but the average senate race in the last election was $3 million. that s 12 million, four times that, just the advantage romney has had on the air waves. that had a real impact on the numbers. and a political writer for the miami herald, mark, ten
mitt romney came back to meet some of the reporters on the press charter flight from jacksonville to tampa in the last ten minutes. our colleague on the plane sent me notes where romney came back and said to folks gathered there that he feels good, feels like this is different than how he felt in south carolina, that he has a sense that things are beginning to break his way. he was also asked, thomas, about newt gingrich s claim to stay in this all the way to the convention, and to use romney s words, that kind of talk is a good indication that someone thinks they are going to lose. the polls show romney leads by 15% his advisers show it is closer than that. same in new hampshire where they tried to reduce expectations to limit the belief system he was going to run away with this. they re trying to do that as well, if they have a double digit win in florida they can claim it as a big message from the republicans in the state. nbc s peter alexander in miami for us. thanks so much. we