clearly the ones that turned out. most of the vote is coming from washoe county and clark county. but there s a lot of economic distress, a lot of homeowners with mortgages underwater. the number one for close sur sta closure state and a state with a lot of problems. we have to wait until 10:00 for the polls to close so according to the entrance poll they decided last year how they were going to vote. they decided before january how to vote. my hunch is a lot of them were lds people. because if you look at the last time we had caucuses out there, they voted like 95 or 98% for mitt romney again. this lds issue is a stable factor and of the voters in the caucuses today, self-identify.
this process. this is the first caucus state in the west. cnn projects mitt romney the winner, the winner of the nevada caucuses. cnn projects that the former massachusetts governor has a decisive win in the caucuses in nevada. mitt romney going ahead, capitalizing on his dramatic win in florida, now capturing nevada as well. we do not, we do not yet know who is going to come in second, who is going to come in third, but there is a dramatic, a dramatic race under way for second and third place. now you can see romney headquarters in las vegas. the crowd hearing the news that mitt romney won the nevada ca k caucus caucuses. very, very excited. we re at mitt romney headquarters in las vegas. the crowd is pretty excited there, as they should be. reporter: that s right, wolf. this is a very pumped-up crowd and very big crowd. we talked over the last couple of weeks of this campaign that mitt romney has trouble drawing large crowds. that s not the case today. this is a big, bois
right now on the nevada caucuses. mitt romney is hoping for a win so big that it start a chain reaction across the country. this campaign went down the hill. romney had his day in florida and wants to keep his momentum going. i will lead us on to prosperity. gingrich vows to fight on no matter how he does tonight. we will be in tampa as the nominee. the final four candidates in a marathon race for delegates. we re in third place when it comes to delegates and that s what really counts. the party s big prize. our will be a united party. will republicans rally behind a single candidate soon or will the infighting last for months? i don t believe the republican party is going to nominate a liberal. i think they are looking for an alternative to mitt romney. his stakes are high. every contest matters. we re going to beat money power with people power. in nevada, right now, all bets are off. from the cnn election center, i m wolf blitzer. weapon w
a shoe string campaign. as i said yesterday, you can get a bunch of money in. but you don t have the apparatus to put it out, it doesn t do you any good. eric: that was a huge point that romney made when he made the speech. you know what? santorum did a great job. not retail campaign. but i was setting up a national campaign. bob: he is saying in his mind thank god santorum wasn t perry. that s what he is saying. he wanted a close race. andrea: the difference in speeches, though. the difference in speeches. bob: i think bachmann andrea: romney s own sons look like they were going to fall a. she santorum was from the heart. without a teleprompter. kimberly: the whole story about his background as a father. bob: i know you want to get out of here. a quick point on the entrance poll, that less than 50% of the people that voted for romney as the most electable, which surprised me. he got a third of the tea party people. so, in that regard, the tea party is good for him. the
interesting, a 76-year-old candidate, by far the oldest candidate in this race really got the biggest applause from junior and seniors in high school, those who are going to go out for the first time today. definitely i m hearing from ron paul s campaign chief. he just sent me an e-mail that he s confident that they ll meet or exceed the entrance polls they are seeing. they re raising expectations tonight. they re really focusing a lot on that youth vote thinking that that really is going to help potentially put them over the edge if you listen to their confidence. we ll listen to ron paul. that entrance poll did show him slightly ahead mitt romney and rick santorum. ron paul, who would have thought 76 years old, an ob/gyn. he s doing remarkably well. he s got supporters out there, a lot of young people who are bringing folks to those caucuses. you re digging deeper. interesting dana was talking about age. very important. but these 19 categories, trying