stop him. shepard: there will be pressure on santorum and gingrich but that pressure won t do any good because they are both going forward. nobody is going to drop out at this point in time they will argue we have got california and new york and big stas and texas, the truth of the matter if texas would have been what it was supposed to be, it got altered by the courts. at the end of the day gingrich might have had a big victory in texas with perry as his chairman. shepard: ed, stay with us. want to get the latest from state to state, ohio is a huge industrial state. the unemployment rate there 7.9%. slightly under the national average, much higher than some areas in that state. it also has a pretty diversion population. different cities around it and those factors are among the reasons that ohio is a very interesting microcosm of the nation as a whole as it has been for many election cycles. let s get to co-host of the newsroom bill hemmer is with us. take us to the billboard, p
it was looking like. i guess in the last few minutes it tightened up as our decision desk at 7:00 eastern time as the polls closed across the commonwealth made a decision that they could not yet call that race now at 17 minutes past the hour they have. fox news projects mitt romney wins the state of virginia. now, pardon me, chris, again, sorry for the interruption. this isn t a big surprise. this is what we would have expected but the margin of victory is going to be telling. if it is 60/40 it s one thing. if it s closer than that, seems to me it s quite another. chris: yeah, one of the keys here and i think that the romney people there are two aspects to this one is the delegates and carl is exactly right. remember barack obama and hillary clinton in 2008 where starting in march and april she started beating obama in pennsylvania and texas, in ohio and an awful lot of key states but because he had done so well in february in the caucuses, obama continued to have that lead of abou
to watch this not be a win with a pretty heavy margin of victory for romney. the other thing is there has been a tremendous amount of discussion about what happens because of ohio not just georgia and virginia but the totality of this evening? can mitt romney overcome the skepticism about the reliability of his conservatism? can rick santorum overcome the skepticism about his long-term viability? and each of these races tonight will contribute a little bit to the answer, but there is one part of it that doesn t lend itself very well to television but it s very very important. that s where the delegate race goes from here on the romney s campaign s hope tonight by the end of the super tuesday states they will have about doubled their delegate count. they want to break the 400 delegate number tonight. there is a total of 400 plus delegates available tonight. he wants to add to his current existing delegate total to get over 400. that would almost double what santorum has, maybe triple or
romney is generally winning among voters who say their top concern is the economy but not everywhere. and rick santorum is leading among voters who say they want a candidate with a strong moral character. but that s also not across the board. much more on the exit polls in just a moment. again, fox news now projects newt gingrich has won his former home state of georgia. 419 delegates up for grabs across 10 super tuesday states tonight. that s more than the total that need to win the nomination. less than a half hour away from the polls closing in the biggest race of the night in the state of ohio. so stay tuned. first, to campaign carl cammeron live at romney headquarters in boston. carl, what are we learning from the early returns? well, we see from georgia that newt gingrich has his big win in the state where he began his political career. pulling off a peach state victory and he he will certainly take the lions share of the delegates there with likely to be overwhelmingly large p
we do expect these colors to change moment tearily as the information starts to trickle in from various counties here. we will restate the board here and give you a better idea right now about what we are seeing about results in other states. you made a call in vermont, shepard. you made a call in virginia. down here in the state of virginia, making a call on gingrich. it starts to trickle in now. only 2% of the vote in right now and gingrich s home state. what s coming up next? the poll closings on the board at 8:00. you are about 22 minutes away. three states will clock in then. the home state for romney in massachusetts where we will see him in boston later tonight. also, down here in tennessee. watch the way tennessee goes. three men fighting and vying right now for victory there in tennessee tonight. oklahoma similar story. we will see the results come in there and about 22 and a half minutes. for the movement, back in ohio, nothing to report just yet but that map will change in a