everything done but on november 6th, we re going to stand united. not only having won an election but having saved a future. let s take a look at the current delegate count, if you have your pen and paper out, here it is, romney now at 415 delegates. santorum, 176. not even half way there is mitt romney. no, you need 11144. santorum 176. gingrich 105 and ron paul 107. and the big state was ohio. it came to the middle of the night to find out who won it by about 12,000 votes so far with 96% of the precincts reporting. mitt romney 38%. to rick santorum s 37%. i mean, santorum was winning almost the entire night. it was a huge comeback for him. they couldn t call it for either state but in the end, the comeback was complete for mitt romney but the detractors are a plenty. one are saying hey, how come if mitt romney can win five straight states and have all the momentum he couldn t walk right
the republican convention. 60 or 70 days before the general election. and the question is, is that enough time for us to wage a campaign to defeat obama? i don t think it is. i think that you need to have a candidate, either of the three of them would be fine but you need to have a candidate in may or june. and the only person that can currently satisfy that bill is romney. now, gingrich has a good month coming up and maybe santorum. he s got mississippi, alabama and louisiana voting during march. the only northern state is illinois and based on his performance in south carolina and georgia, you figure that he might do well in those states and santorum might do well in kansas. he just carried oklahoma. but those victories would come at quite a price. sure. because they would mean that we that if those guys developed momentum, they can only deadlock the convention. they can t win it in advance. and the result is that it may
yet. some are want said to cut back. in iowa about 450. once this is all over, there will be about 3900 positions eliminated by 2013. the cuts are expected to save $8 billion. amazing video of police officers risking their lives all to save a man from a burning car. got one person in the car unconscious right next to a huge fire. the car going up in flames after crashing into a utility pole in oregon. entire rescue was caught on dash cam video. officers were able to reach the driver and drag him out to safety. they both were honored with the city s medal of valor for their heroic actions and those are your headlines this morning. 11 minutes after the hour. more super tuesday coverage coming up after this break. here to kick it off, former presidential republican candidate himself, herman cain. as a gingrich supporter, would he rally behind mitt romney if
strongest with ohio s very conservative evangelicals, married women and low income voters while romney s strengths came from seniors, rich people, catholics, working women and moderates and romney also did really, really well with voters whose number one priority is beating president obama. romney won that just about everywhere we took exit polls except for georgia where gingrich took that title. georgia, also the only state gingrich won overall last night. it s interesting, he went to a lot of trouble to make sure everybody in the peach state knew he was the only one with strong georgia ties. only 15% said that mattered a great deal. 36% of voters in georgia said the former speaker s ties to georgia didn t matter at all but he still won. back to you. peter, go wake up joe trippe, he s on in five minutes. thank you. by the way, one of the most significant things that peter said, catholics. a catholic didn t vote for the