he stands for and he never seems willing to take an unpopular stand. santorum for all of his flaws is very willing to take an unpopular stand. that is helping him to some extent. bret: from the romney campaign perspective, first, they a lot of money. the campaign and the super pac. number one. number two, they help set up the system where it s proportional. if he comes in second in the number of places in the long run you could still get to 1144. and be the nomineele in the end. despite the hiccup of momentum along the way. for romney supporters and romney campaign, they say listen, we will just keep on trucking. sure. it s foolish to say if romney loses michigan by five points santorum finishes. that is foolish to say today. as a month ago it was foolish to say it s inevitable. he won it. let this thing will go on for a long time. likely a two man race. i think that romney will have to make the case for himself. he can do some damage to
he stands for and he never seems willing to take an unpopular stand. santorum for all of his flaws is very willing to take an unpopular stand. that is helping him to some extent. bret: from the romney campaign perspective, first, they a lot of money. the campaign and the super pac. number one. number two, they help set up the system where it s proportional. if he comes in second in the number of places in the long run you could still get to 1144. and be the nomineele in the end. despite the hiccup of momentum along the way. for romney supporters and romney campaign, they say listen, we will just keep on trucking. sure. it s foolish to say if romney loses michigan by five points santorum finishes. that is foolish to say today. as a month ago it was foolish to say it s inevitable. he won it. let this thing will go on for a long time. likely a two man race. i think that romney will have to make the case for himself. he can do some damage to
he s clearly stumbled over the last week on this issue. i ve been talking to romney supporters today and yesterday, and they are saying the same thing. they are really baffled that the romney campaign allowed this to mushroom into the issue it has. they don t understand why he didn t release his tax returns earlier because it was absolutely predictable there would be calls for the disclosure of the tax returns. it s been the norm among presidential candidates of both parties going back since mitt romney s father ran for president in 1968. mike, as i understand it, mitt romney has never revealed any of his tax details, ever. he s filed financial disclosures as he s required to do and that s why we have estimates, but he s not released his tax returns. it s not surprise he didn t do it as governor of massachusetts. it is expected of serious
let s go outfront. i m erin burnett, tonight, live from a seasonably chilly new hampshire. polls open less than 12 hours in the state s gop primary. the second contest in the race to the white house. it s romney s race to lose here tonight. we went to some l of the campaign headquarters today. we talked to volunteers, went into a cigar shop and i smell a little bit and some passion for a guy that a lot of people say doesn t spark passion. now, we got some good shots of the candidates calling supporters and asking for their vote tomorrow. we also got to talk to mitt romney s only brother and he revealed something interesting about his brother that i had never heard before i will virtually guarantee you have never heard. but the romney campaign has a reason to be confident. let s run through a couple of the latest polls. romney at the 33%. paul with 20% and jon huntsman, who has spent basically all his time in this state in third with about 13%. there s a second poll which gi
i m erin burnett, tonight, live from a seasonably chilly new hampshire. polls open less than 12 hours in the state s gop primary. the second contest in the race to the white house. it s romney s race to lose here tonight. we went to some of the campaign headquarters today. we talked to volunteers, went into a cigar shop and i smell a little bit, and we found a motivated elector and passion for a guy that a lot of people say doesn t spark passion. now, we got some good shots of the candidates calling supporters and asking for their vote tomorrow. we also got to talk to mitt romney s only brother and he revealed something interesting about his brother that i had never heard before. and i will virtually guarantee you have never heard before. i m going to share that with you in just a couple of moments. but the romney campaign has a reason to be confident tonight. let s run through a couple of the latest polls. romney at the 33%. paul with 20% and jon huntsman, who has spent basi