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way off, and traditionally, rick santorum, so far, has outperformed the polls going into a state. the key for rick santorum is the unstate of illinois, a conservative section, how they come out, how they turn out, will determine how that state goes. as steve rightly points out, the delegates matter, and in illinois, there are certain districts where san santorum will not be fighting because he wasn t able to put a slate of delegates on there so romney automatically will have an advantage no matter what happens in the overall state. jon: in five of those 18 districts the santorum campaign didn t get on the ballot. some suggest that that is a sign of a disorganized campaign. well, his campaign will push back and say early in the process, when they didn t have any money and it was one candidate in a truck, going to 99 counties in iowa, they didn t meet the requirements, in a couple of states. virginia, another one, where
but we ve seen in several instances, in exit polls, where perhaps there s a bit of a backlash about all of the money. if you look at the per-vote cost that romney, santorum and gingrich have spent on each vote so far, romney is winning by more than 1.2 million votes. but he s spending a lot of money to get there. jon: it s my understanding that illinois uses kind of an unusual delegate system that other states don t have, and that also favors romney, because his delegates are people who are well known in the state. reporter: right. and they are big names, and obviously, they have their own organization in each one of the areas of the state. clearly, this sets up for mitt romney. the question is whether illinois has changed demographically and whether conservatives in the seventh part of the state, the downstate, makes a difference for santorum and it s something we ll watch. if it becomes a late night and we re not going to call