oh, man. they show us what s behind that map are some real trends they have to pay attention to. number one is the economy. look at this. that was the big issue that everyone was voting on. 51% of the people that we surveyed said that was the big issue for them there. look at what happened there. we break it down by how much money they make. various categories. the biggest group is here. look n all of these groups, rick santorum won every one except for the people who make more than $200,000 a year. and he won big. if you look at this group, 30 to 50,000, he won 49% to romney s 21%. newt gingrich did better than mitt romney in this category. go to the lowest end group here and look at this, 65% to 13%. sure, mitt romney won a little bit, but down here his win not so impressive. 46% to santorum s 31%. when you are talking about one of the state s in the country with some of the lowest per capita income, winning with people that make more than $200,000 doesn t get you very fa
look at this. the number one issue to all of the voters today was the economy. and not by a little bit. a massive amount. this is just one of the indicators here. look at who voted today. the biggest single group in this was people who made $50,000 to $100,000 a year. but if you look at everybody from $200,000 on down in income, down here we have $200,000 or more, look at who won in these categories. rick santorum, at least in terms of what we heard from the exit polls, everybody in each of these categories said they wanted him and they re the ones that they voted for. and look at how massively, particularly we look at the numbers down here. in this case santorum, 48%. gingrich got the sikd number. romney comes in here at 22%, tied with gingrich. but still a massive lead for santorum. even bigger when you go down here to the under 30,000. look at that. santorum, 64%. romney tied with ron paul at 12%. the only area in which mitt romney won was in people who made $200,000 or mo
forman, who has been tracking the data all evening for us. tom, what can you have tell us about rick santorum s win? you have been monitoring all the metrics here. we ve seen you standing at the magic walls. so we want to get to tom forman, as well as tell you again, we are monitoring again green bay, wisconsin. rick santorum is standing by. tom, what do you know? reporter: well, we know that one of the things that made a difference tonight was the religious vote. if we look at the turnout here, you look at the voters who came i ll ask what it will take for mitt romney to nail down the nomination as rick santorum continues to challenge. and the woman behind the campaign surge, karen santorum. what she thinks of charges that her husband is anti-women. it makes me really sad that the media tries to do that to him. they try to make it look like he s something that he s not. rick is a great guy. he s completely supportive of women. he s surrounded by a lot of very strong wom
and only in america. the 80s obsession. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, the santorum surge continues. and there s a woman as always behind the man and the surge. karen santorum. i ll ask her about tough talk like this from her husband today. let s just be brutally honest about it. there s one candidate in this race that can never make this race about freedom. because he simply abandoned freedom when he was governor of massachusetts and he abandoned it when he promoted obama care in 2009. plus on the eve of the illinois primary, the battle for the soul of the gop. can mitt romney eventually seal this deal? i ll ask scott brown. newt gingrich wants to build a colony on the moon. he should build it on whatever planet ron paul s from. we begin tonight with my exclusive interview with karen santorum. who joins me now. how are you? hi, piers. it s good to be with you. last time i spoke to your husband he said this key strategy goi
the 80s obsession. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, the santorum surge continues. and there s a woman as always behind the man and the surge. karen santorum. i ll ask her about tough talk like this from her husband today. let s just be brutally honest about it. there s one candidate in this race that can never make this race about freedom. because he simply abandoned freedom when he was governor of massachusetts and he abandoned it when he promoted obama care in 2009. plus on the eve of the illinois primary, the battle for the soul of the gop. can mitt romney eventually seal this deal? i ll ask scott brown. newt gingrich wants to build a colony on the moon. he should build it on whatever planet ron paul s from. we begin tonight with my exclusive interview with karen santorum. who joins me now. how are you? hi, piers. it s good to be with you. last time i spoke to your husband he said this key strategy going forward was less r