the northeast, and he loses where that party is strong, the south and the west with the exception of arizona. now everything that chuck said is true. romney had a pretty good night last night but last night was an opportunity. the first he s really had in this race to definitively and conclusively wrap this up. not just mathematically but atmospherically and he didn t do it. the close win in ohio was not good enough. and i believe the loss in tennessee proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that southern republicans will not back romney even when they know instingtively, strategically the time to end this process is over and they d be better off as the party strategically. their ambitions of taking the senate would be better off and holding the senate would be better if they did but they simply won t. is it religion or ideology that stops them from going forward. 28% seems to be his ceiling in all these states. what i believe it is fundamentally is they do not trust him as a conservativ
and they d be better off as the party strategically. their ambitions of taking the senate would be better off and holding the senate would be better if they did but they simply won t. is it religion or ideology that stops them from going forward. 28% seems to be his ceiling in all these states. what i believe it is fundamentally is they do not trust him as a conservative. okay. and republicans in this south treat their conservatism as something that is it is a principle to them, and they look at romney and say across the board on a lot of issues, you do not earn my trust. you have not won my trust. and i m not going to hand it over in a simple transactional way to you just because it would be better for my party. so they aren t thinking strategically. they are thinking personally and princip principlely. they are depriving romney of what he most needs which is a couple of vict flees states where it would be unexpected for him to win. he wins where it s expected. he does not w