limelight the best he can. this is the basketball game. he s the only one intensely watching the game. the rest of the family was, i don t know about you but this was a public event for us. can we go back to the beach yet? couple of cokes. christmas eve tradition that started in 1955. we are talking about norad s tracking of santa s progress around the world. it is going live just now and will be that way throughout the day so the little ones can see how close st. nick is to coming down their own chimney. norad santa tracking started after an ad misprinted a phone number for kids to call santa directly. the number was printed for norad s operation hotline. soldiers answering the phone were told to tell the kids who called where santa was. that s just so great. i m more excited than any kid out there. i kept asking the producer, can
joining me live now the political writer for the mia mi heral herald . thanks for joining me. i want to ask bu the article in politico, palm beach county back in election spotlight. the florida county that brought us the hanging chad 12 years ago is in the midst of a electoral mess and the presidential election is two weeks away. the problem is 27,000 filled out absentee ballots in pauch beach county were misprinted and cannot be read by tabulation machines. what can you tell me about that? as a former reporter palm beach county, it doesn t shock me. a lot of bad stuff happens there quite often. they had many election meltdowns relatively recently. this sounds like an error to haunt susan booker, who is the palm beach county election supervisor. palm beach county has a bad reputation and bad luck whether it comes to elections.
delegate map for daunting for santorum. 1100 delegates are still up for grabs after tuesday. romney would need less than half of those. santorum would need three of every four remaining tell gaits to clinch the no, ma am delegates to clinch the nomination. santorum spoke about the virtue of brokered convention, and gingrich talked about the fights other than the nomination. we are going to fight the conservative fight. [ applause ] the printers here have been hustling to replace almost a half million optical scan ballots here in wisconsin that were discovered to be a bit too big for the machine or misprinted. they have all been replaced so they are good for primary day tomorrow. some of the misprints went out as absentees and they may have to be hand counted. bret: steve brown live in milwaukee. thank you. saturday, supports of ron paul and rick santorum protested the north dakota republican party process for selecting its 25 delegates to the national convention. they claimed t
it started at midnight. mississippi governor, he pardoned four convicted killers on his way out from office. they were all serving life sentences in murder cases. all of them had also worked in a special program at the governor s mansion. and i m not sure if you saw these pictures, but awesome. check this out. this is a tanker with ice cutters trying to plow through the alaskan ice because it s got a critical shipment of fuel. and it s headed towards an alaskan city that really, really needs that fuel and could run out if they can t cut the ice in time. things we take for granted. i know. and a bama blowout, crimson tide wins the national title. tweet revenge against lsu. i have no idea what she is talking about. i don t know anything about football. i follow this one. did you? yeah. well, i m lying. spl say it was boring. was it boring? it wasn t boring. i guess it depends on where you re from and what you think. first up, the new hampshire primary is fin