ron paul and gingrich a distant third and fourth. we re waiting on mitt romney to speak now and second place rick santorum will also be speaking. we ll look ahead to the next stop on the primary sale. louisiana on saturday. and maryland, wisconsin, and d.c. on april 3rd. cnn s top team, wolf blitzer and john king. and gloria borger and david gergen. promoted to new york tonight. happy to be here. let s start with wolf. looks like a big win for mitt romney. how significant is illinois to his general campaign? if he stays above 50% in this vote in illinois, it ll be very significant. illinois being a very important state because of its population, the diversity. it s a big state. a lot of delegates at stake. he s going to do really well in illinois. clearly come out with the most delegates. rick santorum, he did the best he could. i think it was a blunder on his part to go off to puerto rico for two days. he could have been spending those days in illinois doing a bit bett
a standing eight count here for you. ron? yeah. got beat on two fronts. one he s not libertarian enough, forcing this government program on people, secondly he s cronyism. he even understated it. he got more than $5,000 from that company and his former chief of staff was a lobbyist for that company. so he was hurt two different ways and got slammed. very quick. chuck, it was very similar to the politics of pile on. recall the fall of 07 when hillary clinton came under fire on those drivers licenses, the entire sort of world seemed coming after her at that moment, similar last night with perry i thought. as we saw the night go on, perry just kept losing the audience, hpv didn t go over well and then there was the moment on immigration. here is that where perry just struggled on this front as well. that is the american way. no matter how you got into that state from the standpoint if your parents brought you there or what have you, that s what