neighboring state, and if he can pull off an upset in michigan he s going to be in great shape and mitt romney is going to be stumbling into spa tuesday. jon: rick santorum was down, what, 17 points two weeks or so ago and all of the sudden it looks like a real horse race. it s amazing. as we ve seen at the outset, we ve never seen a race that s so fluid, chaotic and support has shifted and remember, in the new pullout, new york-tbs news poll, it has santorum up two points, 60 percent of republicans surveyed say they re still open to changing their mind, so we could see more of this. perhaps a gingrich comeback, whatever. it s just so open and crazy right now. there s no predicting the final outcome. jon: one of the old saws about republican politics is republicans like to annoint as their next candidate or their next nominee the guy who finished second the last time around. but there s also the suggestion that republicans or conservatives are looking