voters forget worry about headlines. sglooch will the north s new leader honor that agreement? i ll ask bill richardson. he as here. i m wolf blitzer you re in the situation room. the battle lines are drawn in the deep south. upcoming primaries in alabama and mississippi next tuesday may be the last chance for mitt romney s rivals to halt his momentum. rick santorum would love to go one on one with him, but night gingrich may have a different story. joe johns is watching all of this for us. reporter: wolf, rick santorum just finishing up an event, and he s expected to head to mobile, alabama later tonight. this is a situation where he has already proven he can win in the south by winning tennessee. the fact of the matter is newt gingrich is such a strong presence here. reporter: in this speech santorum is suggesting there s a third man in the race besides mitt romney, but doesn t go much further than that. if you go out and deliver a conservative victory for us on t
bluster, big talk, and beating the drums of war with iraq. and rush limbaugh inc., a contract worth hundreds of millions as more advertisers jump the ship, as he put his own empire at risk? i m wolf blitzer at the cnn election center. you re in the situation room. it s called super tuesday for a reason. even in this year s slimmed down version 1/3 gop contests in ten states today. more than all the primaries and three of then last week, certainly romney could leave some of the but the most important prize today is ohio. our latest cnn poll shows romney is neck and neck with rick santorum who needs a big day of his own. let s go straight to jim acosta. he s on the scene for us in ohio. what s the latest there, jim? reporter: wolf, ohio mike the marquee state in the super tuesday states up for grabs, but you wouldn t know it. none of the candidates were out in the state looking for votes, but rick santorum will be in steubenville, ohio later tonight with the hope th
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for
we re in mesa, arizona, tonight s cnn arizona republican presidential debate. it s been about a among since they last faced off and since then even more upheaval. rick santorum is now the surging candidates and the one for mitt romney to beat tonight. both men we are campaigning down to the wire and may have given each other press ammunition. he s here with us, going through the details. what s the latest? for the top two candidates, the devil is in the debails. two potential flash points. tonight mitt romney s new tax plan and rick santorum s faith-based brand of politics. he made what could be a risky move, a plan that could come under fire. i m going to lower rates across the board for all americans by 20%. it will last setting the top bracket for the wealthier earners at 28%, and cut the corporate tax rate to 25%, lower than the 28% proposed by the president, but higher than his gop rivals. romney would offset some of those cuts by limiting popular deductions for th
attracting the attention of homeland security. wolf blitzer is off today, i m candy crowley, and you re in the situation room. right now they re pretearing to vote on a resolution. it strongly condemns the killing, gee mooning the assad regime call off sits forces and cease all violence. we ll bring the vote to you live when it happens. we have cnn journalists in syria right now documenting some of the awful violence. you ll see that as well, ahead. bus first to the battle for michigan, which holes its primary in just 12 days. it is home turn for mitt romney who grew up there and whose father was governor. the latest poll shows tide if not ahead of romney in michigan. that means we re likely in for a bitter fight. cnn s senior correspondent joe johns is in detroit for us. joe, what is the feeling there? what are you seeing? it s interesting. mitt romney rolled in today. he was met by a very warm and receptive crowd. he is really playing up, candy, the notion he is a n