ran as the candidate who could win the presidency and on track to win the nomination in poll after poll after poll after poll until suddenly she was not. on the eve of super tuesday with delegates from 24 states and american samoa up for grabs, barack obama took the lead and hillary clinton went from inevitable and unstoppable to playing catch up. she started to trail in the polls and the delegate count. she tried the strategy of lining up super delegates. remember that? members of the democratic party elite who could vote for her regardless if she had won their state. if she could get enough maybe she could win that way. she tried just about everything in 2008. she fought so hard and on so many different fronts, i thought there was with every chance the democrats would not have a nominee for president when their nominating convention started in 2008. in the end, in the very end, the obama campaign pull ed it out.
idaho welcome back to history in the making here at the republican national convention as the state delegate stood up and cast their vote for mitt romney. a few for ron paul. this plays out in the primary caucus season. three for georgia for ron paul, three for hawaii to ron paul and the rest to romney. on the bottom of the screen 1,,144 is the magic number he needs to get to. not a lot of drama, we know he will get there. we re doing the delegate count in the middle of the screen. he has 538 so far and expect him to get to the magic number near the n s. new jersey, new hampshire. we ll find out. as we watch the delegate cast their vote officially. the suspense. drama. it s also interesting listening to these intros by the different states which only 20 seconds they re allotted but they choose what they say and who they put up. the last one from idaho said the first to sue on obamacare.
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com wisconsin residents are voting right now on an extraordinary move to recall the governor scott walker and replace him with tom barrett. this election might be a sneak preview of the november press connection. the effort to get rid of walker was sparked by his move to get rid of collective bargaining rights for public employees. the state is split down the middle, the nasty battle against the tea party movement that has made vast amounts of money. dana bash reports. reporter: at a labor headquarters in madison, a frenzied final push to get out the vote. checking and re-checking lists, last-minute phone calls upon. the climax of a lengthy union effort of the republican governor scott walker. this is about mobilizing our people and the base and connecting with our voters. reporter: it s a similar scene in a walker war room. gop officials claim to have made 4 million calls and all of thi
though they are trailing behind in the delegate count. a lot of talk on the sunday shows about who could be mitt romney s running mate. peter doc doocy live with more. we are told it is rare that a nominee would ask one to be that running mate and then that person would shoot them down and say no but when two possibilities were asked about the prospects this morning by members of the media that is exactly what they said. mitt romney the leader of the republican party has a vice presidential process in place and i think from this point moving forward i think it would be wise for all republicans to kind of respect that process and myself included and say moving forward we are going to let his process play itself out. you remember what william f. buckley said when ran for mayor of new york and they asked him what he would do if he won and he said demand a recount. i think i would demand reconsideration and send mr. romney a list of people i think could suit better. if romney thi
the tourist attractions here in the nation s capitol. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you certainly could say the general election campaign began this week when republican candidate rick santorum declared the race is over for me. now that mitt romney s toughest challenger is out of the picture, romney and president obama are taking direct jabs at one another. let s bring in our senior correspondent, joe johns. romney, it s his race, he s the challenger. he moved to the right during this campaign, the primary season, but now presumably he s got to move a little closer to the center. it does sound that way certainly, wolf. it s been a very good week for mitt romney. now it s up to him and his staff to keep it going. we ve essentially entered the general election phase of the 2012 campaign with lightning speed thanks to social nemedia d controversial remarks by romney s wife anne by