line as well, doesn t it? yeah, yeah, yeah. santorum s closing pitch, a poke at the former illinois senator who now lives in the white house. you have a particular obligation to write a wrong here in the state of illinois. there are 54 delegates at stake tuesday in the state of illinois. a look at the math shows you time is running short for anyone else trying to stop governor romney. you need 1,144 to clinch. governor romney is 519, not halfway but look how commanding the lead is. senator santorum is second and gingrich 139 and romney with a big lead. if you look at the remaining delegates, 996 allocated to date. that leaves just shy of 1,300. we re almost to the halfway point in the delegates awarded and illinois will get closer to that. if you are behind romney, you re running short. mitt romney is the leader now in the delegate chase and he has right now 49%, 49% of the delegates needed. the average win is winning 57%. if he wins 49% of the rest of the way, he clinc
afghans want him tried in their country but the ambassador to the u.s. says his government trusts the american investigation. and the world s most valuable public corporation now wants to share its wealth. some of it anyway. apple just announced a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share beginning sometime this summer. it also plans to buy back $10 billion worth of shares over the next three years. together those that outlay rather costs 45 billion or as apple might think of it pretty much lunch money. the maker of iphone, ipads and imacs has more than $97 billion cash on hand. the land of lincoln is the battleground. mitt romney may still have puerto rico on his mind. over the weekend romney absolutely crushed rick santorum in the puerto rican primary. 83% to 8. campaigning this morning, springfield, illinois, at a diner there romney showed a bit of an appetite for victory. i need only one thing from you, number one, pancakes and number two, i need you to go vote tomorrow