nominee is but they re not energized. is it a political strategy by some to do things like voter i.d. that would cut off some of the voters that president obama was able to get to come out in huge numbers in 2008? i clearly think that whether it was president obama or anybody else running, we d be out here fighting these i.d. laws. but from a political strategy, is that not part of the calculus or possibly part of theic calcus here? that might be, but let me add something to what steve was saying which is that the romney campaign seems to be focusing more on alabama because, as you know well, alabama has more city centers in it than mississippi does. and that is a way for mitt romney to turn up the vote and maybe beat gingrich and santorum in alabama in order to have a southern win down there. and that e-mail, while maybe it does speak to the fact they can t get very many volunteers in alabama itself, it does show
i think they can. they have got to be careful. if his three opponents stay in the race, ron paul will stay in. even if the apocalypse comes. and even if it happened i think he would only suspend his campaign, he wouldn t end it. santorum can hang in there, live off the land. he has got a shot in missouri which has no delegates but it s in six days. bill: psychological, yeah. because gingrich isn t in the contest in missouri. bill: right. it s a one-on-one. is he now up by santorum is up by 11. he wins in missouri which is a microcosm of the country. by 11 or 10 or whatever. he has a case he can make that i m the guy who should be anti-romney and beat gingrich. if they all stay in, here is the problem. under the new rules the republicans have proportional representation, meaning it is quite possible that romney can do really well all the way until tampa and, yet, not have a majority. bill: not have enough there forgone conclusion about that
i think they can. they have got to be careful. if his three opponents stay in the race, ron paul will stay in. even if the apocalypse comes. and even if it happened i think he would only suspend his campaign, he wouldn t end it. santorum can hang in there, live off the land. he has got a shot in missouri which has no delegates but it s in six days. bill: psychological, yeah. because gingrich isn t in the contest in missouri. bill: right. it s a one-on-one. is he now up by santorum is up by 11. he wins in missouri which is a microcosm of the country. by 11 or 10 or whatever. he has a case he can make that i m the guy who should be anti-romney and beat gingrich. if they all stay in, here is the problem. under the new rules the republicans have proportional representation, meaning it is quite possible that romney can do really well all the way until tampa and, yet, not have a majority. bill: not have enough there forgone conclusion about that time.
i think they can. they have got to be careful. if his three opponents stay in the race, ron paul will stay in. even if the apocalypse comes. and even if it happened i think he would only suspend his campaign, he wouldn t end it. santorum can hang in there, live off the land. he has got a shot in missouri which has no delegates but it s in six days. bill: psychological, yeah. because gingrich isn t in the contest in missouri. bill: right. it s a one-on-one. is he now up by santorum is up by 11. he wins in missouri which is a microcosm of the country. by 11 or 10 or whatever. he has a case he can make that i m the guy who should be anti-romney and beat gingrich. if they all stay in, here is the problem. under the new rules the republicans have proportional representation, meaning it is quite possible that romney can do really well all the way until tampa and, yet, not have a majority. bill: not have enough there forgone conclusion about that time.
connection to the american experience of the voter. but see, i think the real problem is that if he was just attacking gingrich, he could play that let s win it now and i will clean up later. the problem is he said things that s going to be hard to clean up later. he has come out against the dream act. he said let detroit die. he is not going to be able to flip back what he said so type, you can beat gingrich, but i m with the ryan plan. i m saying i will let detroit die i will kill the dream act what he going to tell the independents? i just stayed this so i could beat newt gingrich? he has in many ways cast a die he can t take back and the thing that both the tea party around the occupiers are against, he is the picture of that you couldn t have painted a more perfect picture of what all americans are angry at than mitt romney