our goal was to take out one-third of the delegates and possibly slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. your goal wasn t to win one of these states? i don t think that anyone expected to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, this was an away game for him and i think that is true. this is a delegate contest. like i said our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. at least one person did expect, mitt romney in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney, listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you this. we will have throw or four days in the news miedia. these are the same people that said why isn t he dead. they raise this every few weeks. i don t know if you heard about him wanting to finish second
possible spin on romney s failure to win in alabama or mississippi. our goal was to take out one third of the delegates and possibly do slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. it s important to your goal wasn t to win one of the states? i don t think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him, and i think that s true. look, this is a delegate contest. and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in fact, one person did expect, mitt romney, in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney, of course, listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you a second what will become a challenge is we ll have three or four days of news media and they
and let me just close with this observation, something that senator wagner had said earlier. really, i hope all of you will take to heart. and i m very grateful, both in mississippi and in alabama. callista and i have had this wonderful relationships and friendships and my daughters, cathie and jackie, and jackie s husband, jimmy, we ve all had a terrific time here. jimmy s already gotten out of ray scott a commitment to go bass fishing and i think ray has indicated he thought he could get jimmy a fairly good afternoon of bass. i mean, from jimmy s standpoint, this is already a great, successful evening. but we ve all been out campaigning. we ve all had a wonderful response. we re all very, very grateful. i want to tell you just a second what will become a challenge, we ll have three or four days of the news media and they ll say why doesn t gingrich dwquit? these are the same people who said last june i was dead. they recycle this every six weeks. the biggest challenge is raising mone