tennessee. he will have won three of the six big states. romney will presumably win two, massachusetts his home state and virginia where santorum and gingrich aren t on the ballot. gingrich will win georgia. if romney wins two of the big six ones that is a big difference from winning three of six with ohio. and winning, ohio, and michigan back to back would put romney in a strong position. chris: turn to the discussion i had with rick santorum about birth control. jeff, when president obama stumbled over this question of a mandate that religious institution, not churches but catholic hospitals and catholic charities had to provide healthcare coverage that included birth control and then had to take it back, republicans seemed to have the upper hand and seemed to be casting this as the issue of religious freedom and intrusive government. it seems that the democrats have begun in some circles to
ohio, chris, is that mitt romney looks to me to be the inevitable nominee but looks to be after the month of february a weaker nominee who is spending money, you know, he is really using up some of h his donors and secondly driving up his negatives with independents and women voters. chris: bill, wrap this part of the panel up. your thoughts about super tuesday? ohio is key. i mean think of it this way. if santorum wins ohio, he will win i think oklahoma and tennessee. he will have won three of the six big states. romney will presumably win two, massachusetts his home state and virginia where santorum and gingrich aren t on the ballot. gingrich will win georgia. if romney wins two of the big six ones that is a big difference from winning three of six with ohio. and winning, ohio, and michigan back to back would put romney in a strong position. chris: turn to the discussion i had with rick santorum about birth control. jeff, when president obama stumbled over this question of
and even mike cox, a romney supporter, sated said he thought it wasn t fair to santorum. one delegate, but it s you know, it s not fun. it s a more important issue here. these proportional representation primary, 54% of the delegates are chosen by proportional representation. 46 are winner take all. if santorum loses almost every single primary in the north, midwest and the west and gingrich and he divide up the south, which i think will probably happen, i think gingrich will win georgia and santorum will win tennessee and oklahoma and romney will win all the other states. but if that happens and romney loses one or two of those northern states, this thing becomes deadlocked. and guto the convention with romney with 100 votes short, 1100 delegates and santorum 400, gingrich, 4 hundred and ron paul, 2 hundred and we have to
and even mike cox, a romney supporter, sated said he thought it wasn t fair to santorum. one delegate, but it s you know, it s not fun. it s a more important issue here. these proportional representation primary, 54% of the delegates are chosen by proportional representation. 46 are winner take all. if santorum loses almost every single primary in the north, midwest and the west and gingrich and he divide up the south, which i think will probably happen, i think gingrich will win georgia and santorum will win tennessee and oklahoma and romney will win all the other states. but if that happens and romney loses one or two of those northern states, this thing becomes deadlocked. and guto the convention with romney with 100 votes short, 1100 delegates and santorum 400, gingrich, 4 hundred and ron paul, 2 hundred and we have to