vote. santorum s campaign stirred up a little 11th hour mischief. robocalls urging democrats to vote against romney. romney supported the bailouts for his wall street billionaire buddies but opposed the auto bailouts. it s getting harder out here in america. it s getting harder for people to make ends meet because we have a government that is crushing us every single day. reporter: the romney campaign called the outreach to democrats outrageous. say no to the dirty tricks of a desperate campaign. reporter: their fears may not have been unfounded. exit polls found that 10% of voters identified themselves as democrats. those democrats went overwhelmingly for santorum. more than 50%. asked if recent gaffes about his wealth have hurt his campaign, romney was blunt. yes. next question. reporter: all eyes were on michigan last night. but with his victory in arizona mitt romney will leave last
in today s republican primary something rick santorum hopes to use to his advantage. listen to this robocall that went out to democrats today in hopes of getting them out to vote. michigan democrats can vote in the republican primary on tuesday. why is it so important? romney supported the bailouts for his wall street billionaire buddies but opposed the auto bailouts. that was a slap in the face to every michigan worker and we re not going to let romney get away with it. on tuesday, join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. this call is supported by hard-working democratic men and women and paid for by rick santorum for president. tonight, we can report new exit poll data on who voted today in michigan. 10% of the voters say they are democrats. 31% say they are independents. 59% say they are republican. and that democratic number hasn t changed a whole lot since 2008. look at the number of combined
robo calls in michigan urging democrats to vote against romney. democrats are allowed to vote in the state s republican primary. the so here s part of that robo call. romney supported the bailouts for his wall street billionaire buddies but opposed the auto bailouts. that was a slap in the face to every michigan worker. and we re not going to let romney get away with it. on tuesday join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts s mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. patti ann: romney says that call is misleading voters. watch. senator san diego did something today which i think is deceptive and a dirty trick. he put an ad out there sounding like a labor ad telling labor folks and democrats to go vote against me and vote for rick santorum. at the very end there is little trailer that he paid for this but it is confusing people. it s a new low in this campaign. patti ann: all right. so bob beckel is the former
for his wall street billionaire buddies but opposed the auto bailouts. that was a slap in the face to every michigan worker and we re not going to let romney get away wit. on tuesday join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. well, mitt romney fired back this morning saying santorum has a lot of explaining to do. it s a dirty trick, it s outrageous to see rick santorum team up with the obama people and go after union labor in detroit to try to get them to vote against men me. i m joined by mark burr, good to see you, good morning. thank you. you have given an endorsement to democrats to vote in the primary do. you think they will show up and do you think it was a dirty trick? our policy is people should not crossover, but there s a 50-year history of people in michigan crossing over. republicans have crossed into our primaries. it s going to happen today.
being the grand master or whatever of the 50th celebration of the automobile in detroit, they painted woodward avenue with gold paint, my memory is foggy, i was probably 4, but had the cars go down the avenue. the golden jubilee was in 1946. mitt romney was born in 1947, so yeah i guess the mittster s memory is foggy. he screwed up big time on the automobile loan program and rick santorum is trying to take advantage of it. santorum s campaign has apparently put out this robo call in michigan. romney supported the bail outs for his wall street billionaire buddies but opposed the auto bail outs on tuesday join democrats who will send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. this call is supported by hard working democratic men and women