married up, dude. i sure did. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. in the year 2000 george bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016 donald trump became the second. now, what made both of those victories even possible at the expense of the popular vote was the electoral college. but in 2000 it wasn t just the electoral college. it was also the supreme court. the 2000 election came down to the state of florida, the margin between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, a number that remains staggering to this day. and even though al gore had won the popular vote by more than half a million votes, whether those 537 votes in florida did or did not get counted would decide the race. and after a flurry of legal challenges and appeals, that decision ended up in the hands of the supreme court. the supreme court hasn t been asked to decide the election, but their decision just might do just that.
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As for who has the most delegates, nbc s latest count, romney leads the pack with 119. gingrich with 30. santorum, 17 and then paul at 8. it s early by delegate count, we re way over on the left side let me show you this graph here. 1 1,144 is what you need to win. 2,286 is the total number that s at play. we re just climbing that mountain here with more important tuesdays certainly yet to come. richard, thank you so much. appreciate it. so talking about ohio, ohio, ohio. and right now, the race between mitt romney and rick santorum, too close to call, how the buckeye state could decide the presidential nomination. and gingrich has georgia on his mind. he s counting on a win in his home state. and these battleground states aren t just for republicans. president obama has an eye on them, too.