ppro romney super pack has run almost a million dollars worth of ads. the romney campaign itself is running ads. we expect a lot more as the days wind down until tufplts. alisyn: why is illinois tricky territory for rick santorum? reporter: this isn t mississippi and this isn t alabama, no disrespect intended to those states. illinois is a lot more like ohio. it s turned in to another battleground. as you look at illinois it really ought to favor romney. the demographics of the republican vote there are more moderate, and they are also higher income and white collar. reporter: so u.s. senate mark kirk who is a social moderate, but a fiscal con receive tiff, whconservative who won elections statewide two years ago is a good example. rick santorum is expected to get away from the suburbs to the far western suburbs of the city of chicago and down state. this too is an open primary.
escalate now that santorum is the conservative alternative. i think those attacks are going to increase. reporter: and that has been the pattern, when somebody has risen up, the flavor of the month, if you will, pattern in the republican primary, the romney campaign and its proceed romney super pack have been out there to, if you will, try to hammer down the insurgents. martha: can we expect it to be game on between these two and the attack ads once again in ohio? reporter: here is the weird thing about that, martha. if it weren t for the fact that early voting was going on right now you d be hardpressed to know that there was a really important primary coming up less than three weeks away. very low key kind of campaigning going on around here. and folks are a little bit dismayed by this. and asking a lot of questions. have a listen. it doesn t seem just sort of watching how things have played out on the ground that there is
not put his money where his mouth is. there s newt gingrich getting $5 million from adelson, the casino operator in las vegas, and another $5 million from mrs. adelson. so far the romney campaign has cashed exactly zero from donald trump. i ve challenged trump today on twitter. if he s so rich and can afford it, and i know he can t, let me see him match adelson in a contribution to the romney super-pac. let s see the $5 million go from trump to the romney super-pack, if he actually really is backing romney and more importantly if he actually has, yori don t kno one-tenth of the money he claims he has. i was worried in the intro there when you said demeanted egomaniac was going to tell you what happened in nevada. i thought that was an intro to me, lawrence. i m glad to see it wasn t. john, john, as long as there
there s newt gingrich getting $5 million from adelson, the casino operator in las vegas, and another $5 million from mrs. adelson. so far the romney campaign has cashed exactly zero from donald trump. i ve challenged trump today on twitter. if he s so rich and can afford it, and i know he can t, let me see him match adelson in a contribution to the romney super-pac. let s see the $5 million go from trump to the romney super-pack, if he actually really is backing romney and more importantly if he actually has, i don t know, one-tenth of the money he claims he has. i was worried in the intro there when you said demeanted egomaniac was going to tell you what happened in nevada. i thought that was an intro to me, lawrence. i m glad to see it wasn t. john, john, as long as there is a donald trump, you re going
one of the most conservative members of the senate, jim demint, joins us. let s go outfront. tonight, this. this is a letter from president barack obama. he just sent it to house speaker john boehner. it says, quote, further borrowing is required because the debt is limit to is right now close to, well, 11 zeros and a one. that means we need more money. the president s asking congress to raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion. we knew this was coming because this was part of the deal congress and the president signed in august. okay. that doesn t mean it s going to happen without a lot of noise, fur fury. jim demint has led the charge against the nation s debt problem. his new book is now or never and he is outfront tonight. so, this letter comes. dr. mr. speaker pursuant to section i hear by certify that the debt to limit and further borrowing is required. how does it make you feel? like we said, we knew it was coming. strange that the so-called deficit reduction