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Romney. a lot of conservatives don t think newt is particularly conservative at his core. bill crystal s talking about the possibility of a rick santorum push in february. if newt stumbles and rick moves into second place, maybe santorum has but where everybody s talking around mitt romney, mitt romney, is he getting any closer to making the sale with movement conservatives? well, i think you look at the numbers last night as chuck pointed out. it was an important night, big night for romney, he moves closer to the nomination, but not nearly as close as mccain was in 2008. mccain beat him by five points in florida and then romney dropped out. gingrich and santorum are going nowhere. in fact, santorum had a record fund raising month, raised $4.5 million, he s not going anywhere. and the numbers are soft for mitt romney among conservatives. he only improved by about six ....
About that being a complicated message. he s got to make a more specific case. tony, do people that are a part of your group people you talk to out on the campaign trail when you go to conventions, conservatives, are they as skeptical of the washington republican establishment as me? yeah, without question. i think that s actually where you see a lot of ron paul support. you see a number of young evangelicals who are supporting ron paul. i don t think they ve completely looked at his platform, which is a little whacky if you ask me, but they re tired of the republican establishment, the republicans who promise and never deliver. are you tired, as well, of that? well, i think that s what people are looking for. a candidate who has both the rhetoric that matches the record and that s why i think a number of evangelicals are supporting rick santorum, although it has not reflected in florida. newt i think has gained well, ....
Brings up a good point that we were talking about earlier. republicans have been saying for some time that, you know, newt s the guy that can take down barack obama in a debate, in a campaign. maybe the very things that have offended me in mitt romney s campaign, how cynical it was, how much it was driven by negative 30-second spots, as rich lowry said, how they were like a cyborg that marked gingrich for extinction, maybe over time tina s right, mitt s proving he may be the guy th that that s best lined up to at least organization wise beat barack obama in the fall. let s also not criticize the guy because he was able to raise $15 million. that plays to his strength, number one. number two, very interesting thing in the polls that 40% of the people said advertising swayed their decision. people never they won t admit that. no, never, ever, ever. ....
President. and i would say to him now, mr. president, you cannot sing your way past a disaster of your presidency. mitt romney won the florida primary yesterday with 46% of the vote easily outpacing newt gingrich. gingrich took 32% followed by rick santorum at 13% and ron paul who did not campaign in florida at 7%. welcome back to morning joe, everyone, top of the hour, mark haleprin and donny deutsch are still with us. and joining the table, the editor of newsweek, tina brown is with us. mika, you make a singing reference. newt makes a singing reference, right? he did. and he talks about barack obama. he decided not to the talk about mitt romney, but i think that was directed at mitt romney, as well. could have been. so santorum may break out into but neither newt nor mitt mentioned each other last night. isn t that fascinating? ....
The way the county map looks. newt did carry the southern part of the state, the culturally southern part of the state. and the question you have now is, okay, romney still has that one little issue he s got to deal with, which is core conservatives not fired up. and by the way, the one exit poll number i think we re not making enough of is the fact that nearly 40% of republicans went to the polls to say they re not satisfied with the field. yeah. that s a stunning thing to actually go to the polls, vote usually if you re motivated to vote still not happy. still not happy. you know, and david gregory, chuck todd had a great insight last night before the numbers started coming in. he said take a look at north florida where i m from. northwest florida, the so-called red neck rivera. if they go more gingrich than romney, that may be a problem super tuesday and beyond. we ve got georgia, alabama, ....