to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. jeff, just so we have a clear response to everybody, mitt romney did give a response to this. take a look at this. you are making calls to republicans today. this is a good thing, all right? yeah. yeah. the santorum campaign is making calls to democrats today, all right? so we want to make sure we get republicans out to vote. we want this to be a process where republicans choose a republican nominee. we don t want the democrats to choose who they think is the easiest person to run against. just talk of the stakes that are taking place in michigan today. we ll get back to our conversation with jeff zell in a second but first we ll go live to chardon, ohio, where they are holding a press briefing to tell us what had happened yet at chardon, ohio, let s listen in. the ems and law enforcement
nominee, he ll be trying to win over democrats and independent voters as well. so the romney campaign is just trying to draw as much attention to this as possible. they are trying to get out their own base of supporters with a rallying cry saying, hey, we need your help because the other side is getting democrats here. but the santorum campaign is actually employing some things that any growing campaign, any big real campaign would do. they are trying to press their advantage, but this is a small amount of voters we are talking about. santorum is going after social conservatives on the right side of this party, more importantly. jeff with the new york times. thank you for sticking around. sorry we have a shortened conversation this morning. but again, thank you as we move on to our next guest, a senior strategist at a media consulting firm for the santorum campaign. great to have you with us this morning. i want to get straight to it because we have a lot to talk about with what s
romney are neck and neck. i want to go back to the new york times national political correspondent, jeff, thank you for sticking by. we wanted to get the important briefing in from chardon, ohio. we want to shift gears now to focus on what s taking place in super tuesday contests, taking place in michigan and arizona. as we started off the top of the show explaining the robo calls taking place throughout michigan right now, basically santorum s camp trying to push democrats to go to the polls today because they are allowed to, but go to the polls today to vote for him. mitt romney is saying this is a dirty trick. is this just typical politics, has modern day allowed them to become this or is this something else? i think, first of all, we should note michigan has an open primary. there s not party registration here in michigan, so you walk into a polling place and request a republican ballot. so it s a bit of a mischief, but if mitt romney becomes the