it s very easy to excite the base with incendiar remarks. i am who i am. can romney survive politically if we were to losemy? it s a big question and open-ended question. romney may try to pin the blame on dirty dealings going after a santorum campaign, robo calls that s urging democrats to vote rick. i think republicans have to recognize there s real effort to kidnap our primary process. if we want republicans to nominate the republican who takes on barack obama, i need republicans to get out and vote and say no to the dirty tricks of a desperate campaign. if romney s worried about the threat of a robo call, if he s not willing to set his hair on fire, he may want to set his sights on the man who got audience on fire at the mention of buying car. even though secret service wouldn t let me drive. i bet it drives real good. five years from now, when i m not president, i ll buy one and drive it myself. all right. he s going to by just one. let s bring our triple pan
something he decided not to do. after the republicans call him a snob. it s tuesday, february 28th, 2012. it s a super tuesday here at msnbc. and next week may be officially super tuesday, but it may not get bigger than this for mitt romney. let s get to the first part of the morning. mitt romney s future is on the line today. this is the third major do or die moment. he survived florida with another big win. can romney survive tonight at the day he was born in? there s no overstating the loss tonight. s no just the handwrittening over whether the establishment tried to find another candidate. but there will be financial issues for romney, which is already bubbling beneath the surface. which leads to whether romney is forced to write his own check. republican heavyweightses, at least publicly are trying to put the best fate they can on romney s problems. i know a lot of people in d.c. are ringing their hands. the establishment wish they could pick a candidate earlier in the
to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. jeff, just so we have a clear response to everybody, mitt romney did give a response to this. take a look at this. you are making calls to republicans today. this is a good thing, all right? yeah. yeah. the santorum campaign is making calls to democrats today, all right? so we want to make sure we get republicans out to vote. we want this to be a process where republicans choose a republican nominee. we don t want the democrats to choose who they think is the easiest person to run against. just talk of the stakes that are taking place in michigan today. we ll get back to our conversation with jeff zell in a second but first we ll go live to chardon, ohio, where they are holding a press briefing to tell us what had happened yet at chardon, ohio, let s listen in. the ems and law enforcement were well prepared, well planned and executed. they carried out the plan. now we move to another important ph
us is it s still all about president obama. whether it s ron paul, rick santorum or mitt rom think, the president s getting between 43 percent and 46% of the vote, essentially the same, and the reason republicans are gaining ground is because the president s job approval has slipped back from its peak at valentine s day. more than likely this has to do with gas prices that are causing some economic jitters. but again, it s more about the president than it is about the republicans at this time. megyn: you re reporting that the president s strongly disapproval number is now above 40%, strongly approve just above 20% giving him a net negative unlike any you ve seen so far. what accounts for that? is it all gas prices, do you think? well, you ve got to put it in perspective. we did see numbers back before election 2010, the president s had some ups and downs since then, but really where he is today is where he s been for most of the last couple years. he had a nice bounce at th