governor romney has an enormous amount of money but we have an enormous amount of people. mitt romney needs to drag him down. he s gone from pillar to post. a pinball machine. a two-man grudge match in a four-man race. there s a lot of folks who talk tough. what makes you tough is at your core. no way going to stop the momentum that we have started. who will return to florida this summer? as the republican nominee? i will go all the way to the convention. i expect to win the nomination. we re going to be in this race for a long time. forget everything you thought you knew about the presidential field. this is the beginning of a long, hard slog. we re going to take back the white house. we re going to take back our country. the nomination is up for grabs. the conventional wisdom is out the window. and florida will change the game again. hello from the cnn election center. i m john king. most of the polling places across florida closed about one hour f
go. we ve got the state of florida to cover for you. i want to begin with john zarrella live at a polling place not too far from where i am. john zarrella, you re talking to voters. what are they telling you? very good turnout here today, brooke. they expect maybe countwiywide, about 40% voters. a lot of them are telling me, we want the guy who will beat barack obama. but then when you get past that, we re hearing both sides, some people saying newt gingrich, others saying mitt romney. so it s going to be interesting to see how that shakes out here, and this is the largest republican precinct, precinct 701, in hillsborough county. about 3800 registered republicans here. brooke? we know that the republican party, it s penalizing florida for having its primary today, january 31st. tell me a little bit more about that as i hear you laugh, john zarrella. you know, four years ago, the state moved up the presidential primaries to january 31st, or the last tuesday in january