>>> super wednesday, here in ohio. >> we have an update for from you alaska. we're not calling it but it's closed there. the caucuses there have been closed and joining us from alaska sara palin, a fox news contributor, thank you for coming back on. let me ask you first. you're not endorsing anything yet in this race but who did you vote for today? >> to be honest with you and candid i will answer your question and let you know i voted for newt gingrich because i believe he fought on on his energy policy and understanding the price of a barrel of oil doesn't disaffect gas reen in our cars and every product increases costs which the price of oil going up. and that is newt gingrich will help us lower those tris priss. we're. >> we're spending so much time talking about santorum and romney tonight. newt gingrich said look i've been written off by the media and why do you think that is? can you relate to that? as someone who was sh -- loved by a lot of republicans and still is but more than your fair share of shots from the media? >> i can relate to that. think most americans can. mos

last night, super tuesday, let them tell you. >> if santorum can win in ohio, he will survive. >> if mitt romney wins ohio, he takes a giant step forward. >> if santorum can squeak this guy... >> if romney wins in ohio... >> santorum can't afford to lose ohio. >> if romney wins ohio. >> if santorum wins there, the whole omlette is up in the air. it may land on the floor. [laughter] >> jon: you have run out of metaphors. the omlette? what, are you staying at a hotel where an omlette bar? the omlette bar. ohio, huh? so that's it. so ohio is the decisive state. whoever wins that one, that's it. and if i'm not mistaken... >> romney delaird the winner in ohio. >> oh, okay. thanks for coming. that's a wrap. we're just going to sit back. show's over plsm romney, good luck in the general election. i'm going to smoke my pipe and watch book notes as i do unwinding after a hard day at the satire factory, unless... >> romney eked out the win in ohio. >> he barely won in the all-important state of ohio. >> mitt romney won the map but he lost the momentum. >> he could not deliver a knock-out punch

>>> this afox news alert. fox news can now project mitt romney will win the iowa caucuses and ohio remains close to call. take a look at the margin it's razor thin now just a couple thousand separating rick santorum and mitt romney. the romney camp is showing confidence reports our own carl cameron. pointing to franklin, and saying that the romney senior advisors are insisting rick santorum, and i quote, cannot catch up in ohio. that is what we're hearing. that is not the news we're getting from our decision desk now. going to check in with steve brown in ohio for the latest there. steve? >> yeah. i think the reason is that all of the results are not in from two counties that have been rich in romney votes, hamilton county around cincinnati and there are substantial numbers of votes yet to be counted that. seems to be at the core of the romney campaign's confidence. the santorum campaign has not left this venue as of yet. they're in an area just dead ahead where i'm standing here, you can see the curve around the area where they're said to have been krumpbling numbers and taking a

around the world. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from the cnn election center. ohio, ohio, ohio. we have been talking about it all night. the biggest prize so far tonight, ten states on this super tuesday. take a look at the official numbers. 86% of the vote in ohio in. you see santorum is ahead by votes, but they don't have the official numbers we received from our own dana bash in hamilton county. that's cincinnati. it shows a 6,000 vote lead for romney right now. we haven't included those in the official numbers yet. they haven't been reported to the republican party headquarters. by our estimate, romney slightly ahead of santorum in ohio, but still, plenty of time for stuff to happen. we're watching ohio very, very closely. you can see how close it is right there, by our estimate, once again, mitt romney slightly ahead of rick santorum. let's take a look at idaho right now. we have not projected a winner in idaho even though romney is way ahead of everybody else with 12% of the vote in. romney with 78%, 11% for ron paul, 8% for rick santorum, 3% for newt gingrich. let's go to john ki

9:43 until the polls close in ohio. that is a key political battleground, but we have news to report right now. cnn projects a win, a win, and take a look at this, mitt romney we project is the winner of the virginia primary. mitt romney the former massachusetts governor scores another victory tonight. mitt romney the winner the virginia primary, and he was running only ron paul managed to get on the ballot in virginia and santorum and gingrich did not have enough strength to get the signatures necessary, but he did manage to win virginia, and that is a win for virginia for mitt romney. a win as we said earlier for newt gingrich in the home state of georgia. looking at the actual votes coming in. 3% of the vote in virginia coming in, and small number and up to 4%, and romney with 10,826 and ron paul with 8,114 and 43%, and only mitt romney and ron paul on the ballot in virginia. in alabama the polls closed a half hour ago, and we have not been able to make a projection yet in vermont, but only 70 votes tallied and 38% for mitt romney and 27% for rick santorum, and 24% for ron paul an

results in most of these states right now. but let's go to ohio first. in ohio right now, 93% of the vote is now in. mitt romney slightly ahead of rick santorum. but it's going to be difficult for rick santorum to catch up by all accounts. 38% for romney. 37% for santorum. it's a significant lead right now. we'll see what's going on. let's take a look and see what happened in oklahoma. earlier in the night 99% of the vote is in. rick santorum wins in oklahoma with 34%. romney coming in second, 28%. gingrich, third. ron paul with only 10%. tennessee, another important win for rick santorum tonight. 37% going for santorum, 28% for romney. 24% for gingrich. only 9% for ron paul. let's take a look at alaska though. within the past few seconds the caucuses were winding down in alaska. there's no votes officially counted yet in alaska. we're going to be updating you right now -- we'll be uprighting you on what's going on in alaska. 24 delegates at stake in alaska. you get a sense of what's happening, the winners and the losers. look at this. ten states, romney so far has won four. in virgi

cases just coming in this morning. ohio, spent a good part of the night in the too close to call category. around 12:30 eastern time this morning, nbc news called romney the apparent winner. in a one-point close shave over santorum. romney sweated this one out before winning ohio, apparently, by just 12,000 votes. despite outspending his rivals 4-1 in that state with his super pac leading the way. just before 4:00 a.m. eastern time, about 90 minutes ago, nbc news declared romney the projected winner in alaska. he won big in the idaho caucuses. he took massachusetts where he serve as governor and also neighboring vermont. romney is as expected was the big winner in virginia where newt gingrich and rick santorum did not make it on to the ballot. ron paul did pick up 40% of vote in virginia. turnout underwhelming, just under 5% of registered voters went to the polls, that is the lowest ever for a presidential primary in the state of virginia. aside from his near win in ohio, santorum countered with primary victories in oklahoma and ten. . he also won the north dakota caucuses unders

. liquidate your flu symptoms with alka seltzer plus. >>> only 9:43 until the polls close in ohio. that is a key political battleground, but we have news to report right now. cnn projects a win, a win, and take a look at this, mitt romney we project is the winner of the virginia primary. mitt romney the former massachusetts governor scores another victory tonight. mitt romney the winner the virginia primary, and he was running only ron paul managed to get on the ballot in virginia and santorum and gingrich did not have enough strength to get the signatures necessary, but he did manage to win virginia, and that is a win for virginia for mitt romney. a win as we said earlier for newt gingrich in the home state of georgia. looking at the actual votes coming in. 3% of the vote in virginia coming in, and small number and up to 4%, and romney with 10,826 and ron paul with 8,114 and 43%, and only mitt romney and ron paul on the ballot in virginia. in alabama the polls closed a half hour ago, and we have not been able to make a projection yet in vermont, but only 70 votes tallied and 38% for mi

demography of ohio on this election preview day. former governor ted strickland is going to be my guest. georgia is the biggest delegate prize tomorrow night. cynthia tucker of the constitutional will give us an idea of what's going on from atlanta. part of our wall to wall preview of super tuesday this is the war room. glad that you are inside. now, we are going to go right here and show you a little bit of that preview to give you a taste of what's going on out in those states. in just a few hours, the polls are going to open. the caucuses will begin in 10 states holding super tuesday contests. front runners mitt romney and rick santorum were making last minute pitches to voters. instead of listening to them, we are going to go right here to talk about this georgia primary. as we can see, gingrich is up significantly over romney. not going to be a whole lot of surprise if, in fact, that turns out to be the case. in ohio, we have got romney up just one point over santorum according to public policy polling. we have a delegate count, 203 to 92 to 33 to 25. but all of these delegates tom

have fox team coverage. carl cameron is in cincinnati, ohio, ahead of super tuesday. we begin with correspondent dan springer who is live in seattle. good evening, dan. >> yeah. good evening, brett. with 62% of the vote here in washington state counted in the straw poll today, mitt romney has a lead with 37% of the vote. a short time ago, he issued a victory statement that reads in part, i'm heartened to have won the washington caucuses and i thank the voters for their support. every day that passes with barak obama in the white house is a day in which america's recovery from the economic crisis is delayed. here is how the other three candidates faired so far. ron paul at 24%. with rick santorum also at 24%. and newt gingrich at 11%. it was a day with a strong gop turnout here. it was a record turnout for the washington state republican caucuses with lines so long at some precinct, not everyone who showed up made it inside to vote before it was over. part of the strong showing is due to timing. washington state always had voted after super tuesday. also for the first time in years,

ohio. look how close it is right now. 59% of the vote in, santorum slightly ahead of mitt romney. 38% to 36%. santorum with 254,757. romney, 254,739. santorum just slightly more than 10,000 votes ahead. gingrich and paul significantly behind. but you know, we're going to watch ohio very, very closely. look what is going on in north dakota right now. 73% of the vote in. santorum is ahead in north dakota as well. 39%. ron paul is second with 28%. mitt romney, third. 25%. newt gingrich, 8%. a small number of people participated in the caucuses in north dakota. 75% of the numbers in. santorum ahead in north dakota. i want to focus in on ohio right now. you know, if romney loses the popular vote in ohio, he might still win the delegate count because santorum didn't get on the ballots in some of the congressional districts. bad performance on his staff's part, but as he luoses the race in ohio, this race is going on and on and on. >> the race is going on anyway. it's the on and on part that gets interesting if that stays purple. santorum is purple. romney is the deeper red. newt gingrich h

con primarias pero la joya es el estado de ohio, para los precandidatos republicanos, que quieren postularse contra obama el prÓximo noviembre, y en ohio, en estos momentoss miren esto, diferencia de 12 mil votos, entre santorum y mitt romney con 33% de los votos contados. >>> este es un estado fundamental, especialmente para el ex senador de pennsylvania santorum, todo indica que este sÚper martes en la contienda republicana se podrÍa convertir en un sÚper triunfo para mitt romney si gana ohio, rogelio mora estÁ con nosotros al tanto de lo que ocurre en estos estados, una noche que parece puede ser larga 6789. >>> buenas noches, y les parece vamos a repasar resultado que se han dado sÓlo en los estados donde se proyecta un ganador pero aÚn faltan delgados por decidir, romney que hoy ha ganado massachusetts, vermont y virginia el ex gobernador, asÍ pinta en el mapa tiene hoy 81 gel gadz g nadz, santorum que ha ganado tennessee, y tambiÉn el de oklahoma con esto en el mapa aparece asÍ. apuntando se un nÚmero de delgados que es de 25, ahÍ los tienen y finalmente cerramos

focus on today. one is the area where the war began, the ohio country. we talked a little about this last time, how the war began in the ohio country in 1754 when the colony of virginia challenged the french building of forts in the ohio country. the war also involved acadia or what is also called nova scotia, the name given at that area by the british, an area on the eastern coast of canada, which is very important during the conflict. the war also involved the region of the lake champlain corridor. now lake champlain is a lake today that is largely between two states, new york state on the western side of the lake and on the east vermont. the northern tip of the lake does touch canada. so lake champlain was extremely important in the war as a corridor between the colony of new york and the hudson river valley and canada. and it could be an artery of invasion either moving northward or southward as we'll see at various points in the conflict. and, lastly of great importance was the st. lawrence river, the great river of canada. beginning with its source in the great lakes and, of co

day in the presidential campaign so far. we stalk super tuesday from cincinnati, ohio. this is "special report." ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. we're coming to you live from historic terminal in cincinnati, ohio. we'll have extensive coverage of what is going on in the crucial super tuesday state, as well as the other nine states that are part of tomorrow's important election. but we begin tonight with the potentially explosive situation involving the u.s., israel and iran. today, president obama met with israel's prime minister. pairing that has not always gone smoothly. chief white house correspondent ed henry shows us what happened today. >> the relationship has been rocky. but at the start of two intense hours in the oval office with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, president obama said the bond is unbreakable. top u.s. officials are paying great pains in private to say they have a healthy relationship. as the president insisted he will have israel's back. >> my policy is prevention of iran obtaining nuclear weapons. when i say all options are on t

look at idaho and north dakota, ohio. there you can see spread right now. a little more than 10,000 votes. but again, different areas of the state coming in. so far, 59% of the expected vote in. the back and forth we have seen in this lead, santorum has had a big lead. it started to shrink in the past few minutes as karl rove mentioned, some of the urban areas and the suburbs in the big cities, starting to come nperhaps. we will talk to karl in just a bit about that. we can also call now that newt gingrich will finish third in ohio and ron paul will finish fourth. we can call that now. >> megyn: and call virginia as l. >> bret: we did that a long time ago. >> megyn: in case you were confused about the states that mitt romney won -- >> bret: newt gingrich wins georgia, wide spread there. >> megyn: and for rick santorum, winning the states of tennessee and oklahoma. fox news projecting that mitt romney will take second in tennessee, leaving newt gingrich in third place in that state tonight. >> bret: okay, from here, let's bring in former governor of alaska, former vice-presidential c

nosotros, y cuando vemos los estados, ohio siuge muy reñido. >>> sí, josé, mitt romney está en al delantera, y supera a rick santorum por unos seis mil votos, es el estado del premio gordo, donde todos esperan que se defina, si les parece vamos a ver algunos resultados que tenemos en el estado de ohio, ahí tenemos a mitt romney con un 38% rick santorum con el 37$ la diferencia es mínima un punto porcentual, newt gingrich con un 15% y ron paul tiene solamente un 9%, esta es la situación del estado de ohio, muy reñido, y en idaho, se proyecta como ganador a mitt romney, 32 delegados se disputan en ese lugar, así que, mitt romney tendría 4 estados el ex gobernador de massachusetts, así se pinta el mapa, en esta noche, mitt romney con celeste, rick santorum en verde, y en color naranja newt gingrich, vamos a ver cuáles son los estados que han ganado cada uno de ellos, mitt romney ganó hoy, (información en pantalla), vamos a ver los de rick santorum porque el ex senador de pensilvania ganó (información en pantalla), vamos a ver a newt gingrich, pero en el tema de los delega

supporters. we do not yet know the results in ohio. it's still too close to call in that race. as you saw, the numbers going by while mr. romney was speaking, the numbers on your screen. we've all been watching those numbers coming in in ohio, wondering what's going to happen. the difference between rick santorum and mitt romney is just 10,000 votes. a lot of that still to come in. that's just a fascinating race to be watching right now. rick santorum has won in oklahoma and tennessee. but ohio we knew was going to be the big prize tonight. to have that still undecided at this point is remarkable. >> it's an amazing night for people who care about this country. and it's politics, everything will turn on this. we've been watching the trend over the last week or so. it's been all in romney's favor. all the big money, he poured tremendous advertising this weekend. we saw there were a lot of people deciding for him. tonight we're learning the late deciders are going with santorum. it's an inspiring fact that the american people can surprise us all the time. i tell you, we have to talk about t

>>> well, it is 1:00 a.m. in the east and the race in ohio is over. mitt romney an apparent winner after a close race that has taken all night. that is the race that we will be tracking throughout the night. romney winning a slim victory over rick santorum in ohio. more results now. in tennessee, rick santorum is the projected winner of the tennessee republican primary, and rick santorum also the newt gingrich is the projected winner in his home state of georgia and the two man race by the way, romney is the projected winner over ron paul, and newt gingrich and rick santorum did not make it on to the ballot. and timely in the green mountain state, mitt romney is the projected winner. and howard fineman, i love to get this from you, because you are a bottom line guy, and reporting all night. in addition to the bottom line where it looks like santorum had a good night winning three of this coming in where it looked like impressive wins and close loss up there in ohio, what else happened tonight? >> well, what happened tonight, chris, is that the notion that this is a long, long strug

response to limbaugh's sorry remarks. >>> ohio governor john kasich is refusing federal disaster relief for his state and democrats accused him of playing politics. ohio congressman tim ryan is furious and he will weigh in. >>> it's super tuesday-eve, mitt romney's campaign just keeps getting goofy. >> born on a mountaintop in tennessee, raised in the woods so he knew every tree. >> all the latest on the state of the race with the nation's john nichols, and analyst howard fineman. >> he killed himself a bear. davy, davy crockett. >>> good to have you with us, thanks for watching. >>> breaking news off the top, a second station has decided to drop the rush limbaugh radio show. could it be the tip of the iceberg? for the last three days of last week, rush limbaugh has had no remorse about attacking a 30-year-old law student, sandra fluke. he called her some of the worst names imaginable and assaulted her character. when he started losing sponsors, he said he was sorry. but he didn't really apologize for what he had actually done. today, he said he attacked sandra fluke because he was using th

>>> well, it is 1:00 a.m. in the east and the race in ohio is over. mitt romney an apparent winner after a close race that has taken all night. that is the race that we will be tracking throughout the night. romney winning a slim victory over rick santorum in ohio. in tennessee, rick santorum is the projected winner of the tennessee republican primary, and rick santorum also the projected winner oklahoma, and also the projected winner the north dakota caucuses. in the idaho caucuses, mitt romney won a decisive victory. in massachusetts, mitt romney is the winner. nbc news has allocated all of that state's delegates to romney, the former governor. newt gingrich is the projected winner in his home state of georgia and the two man race by the way, romney is the projected winner over ron paul, and newt gingrich and rick santorum did not make it on to the ballot. and timely in the green mountain state, mitt romney is the projected winner. and howard fineman, i love to get this from you, because you are a bottom line guy, and reporting all night. in addition to the bottom line where it l

. >> i hope i get the support of people here in ohio tomorrow and other states across the country. i believe if i do i can get the nomination. >> governor romney's technique to out spend his owe noents 5-1. is impossible against obama. he will have massively more money than any republican. >> don't listen to the polls and media hype and all the things about what the race is about. focus in on whether we want a man who can stand up and paint a very different vision for this country. >> up for grabs on super tuesday delegates a magic number for winning the nomination is 1144 delegates. here's the delegate count. mitt romney leads the pack with 203, santorum 92. gingrich 33 and paul with 35. super tuesday a total of 419 delegates available. with a solid win today romney could get a tighter hold on the frontrunner status. threw there are many voters who are still very undecided. >>> i have been going back and forth a little bit. i am looking at rick santorum. i think mitt romney has a good chance to win the presidency. >> i am so not sure who i am going to vote for but i am going to keep

out for this one. in ohio, they are neck and neck in the polls. >> so rush limbaugh apologizing again for calling law student sandra fluke a slut. we have a 15 and counting. the stations are also starting to yank his show. i've got to tell you, we found a guy, an editor and publisher who has been following limbaugh for quite a bit of time who said that apology was sincere and he's going to tell us why he thinks so. >> because the sponsors are bailing. >> that's not what he said. >> another story. this is one of those ones that gets you to shake your head because nfl players are admitting they put together big buckets of cash to pay each other to really take out other team members. they're so-called bounties. and it happened to some of the league's biggest names too. and the investigation is going from locker room to locker room. we'll fill you in. >> i can't wait to see what the league is going to do about this. >>> and slipping and sliding away. drivers -- oh, my goodness. that's a big slip slide. did you look at that? you know what that is? those are the effects of black ice.

, including that classic cliff hanger in ohio. he's kind of talking like it's over, but did he land that knockout blow? >> no. >> if your support really means everything to ann and me, and i'm not going to let you down. i'm going to get this nomination. >> while rick santorum wins three states because mitt romney still cannot convince conservatives that he's the man. we're taking a look at the exit polls. this is my favorite part actually. different numbers are revealing some big problems for the front-runner. christine romans is breaking it all down. she's going to talk about electability and the economy and what folks are saying about that. >> i'm not sure it's my favorite part because the information is so revealing or whether it's christine romans, who's my favorite person. we're going to get to her in a moment. but after taking the most states and the most delegates on super tuesday, mitt romney walking the walk and talking the talk, pretty much looking like the nominee, but all candidates are staying in the race. >> it was too close to call until very early into super wednesday, bu

day mitt romney has been waiting for? >> i hope that i get the support of people here in ohio tomorrow. and the other states across the country. i believe if i do i can get the nomination. >> if the conservative base of the republican party is still longing for someone other than mitt romney to get the nomination, tonight is their chance to say so. >> governor romney gets out there and four, five, six to one you know, it is going to take a toll and that's what's happened in pretty much all the states. that's why you know, i keep looking at this as a game of survival. >> rick santorum staking his hopes on ohio and tennessee. newt gingrich saying it is do or die time in his home state of georgia. >> we have really worked very hard to make sure we can carry georgia and all the polls now indicate we will carry georgia. >> the front runner, mitt romney, trying to close the deal tonight against his rival bus he is picking up baggage along wait that could hurt him long term. >> what does it say about the college coed, susan fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says

ohio, que se ha impuesto a rick santorum, que ganó otros 3 estados (información en pantalla), ahí los tienen, los triunfos de mitt romney en el supermartes, por otra parte, rick santorum apuntó 3 estados, pero la diferencia en delegados es amplia, mientras tanto newt gingrich, el ex presidente de la cámara de representantes se apuntó una victoria en georgia ,para seguir en la campaña, así queda el mapa electoral, los estados en verde para mitt romney, son 5, 3 para rick santorum y 1 para newt gingrich, los delegados ganados hoy (información en pantalla) >>> pero, josé, como podemos ver, en el número de estados y delegados, mitt romney es el gran ganador, tenía 119 al principio del supermartes y llegó a 323, más de 210 votos de diferencia, con respecto a newt gingrich, que tiene 105, rick santorum tiene 101, y ron paul se queda con 24, parece que la diferencia para mitt romney es amplia. >>> el gran ganador de la noche sin dudas, rogelio mora tagle, muchas gracias. >>> en uno de los estados donde mitt romney se impuso fue massachusetts, angie sandoval estuvo en boston y se n

michigan. he might win ohio. he is nipping at his heels in tennessee. and virginia. how can you win -- those are pretty influential states. he would be able to go into the room and say i know i'm short on delegates but i've won where this party has to be well-to-foot in november. so, it would be really strange to go through this whole primary process and have a republican win those states and then not get the nomination. how could that happen? how you win florida, ohio, michigan, virginia, arizona and then not get the nomination? >> i think it is really -- >> that's -- >> but winning the nomination doesn't just meaning convincing the majority of republican voters around the country that you are a good guy and ought tonight nominee it is convincing them that you ought to be the nominee over other republicans, right, so it just means beating in this case, rick santorum, newt gingrich and ron paul. >> not if you have heading into a convention where a candidate does not have enough delegates. then you have to beat the people you ran against but jeb bushes and the other people you talk b

on super tuesday. ohio the biggest prize of the night, the race there, continues to be too close to call. right now 21% of the vote in, too close to call between rick santorum and mitt romney. the caucuses are also underway in north dakota, but we have no characterization of the race there. some of the states we have called, in tennessee, it's former pennsylvania senator rick santorum who is the projected winner of the tennessee republican primary. that is a big and somewhat surprising victory for mr. santorum. mr. santorum is also the projected winner in oklahoma. in massachusetts, no surprise, mitt romney is patriot jeked winner in the state in which he was governor, his home state of massachusetts. as we mentioned in georgia, newt gingrich won the primary in his home state. in virginia there were only two people on the ballot, mitt romney and ron paul. mitt romney has won that two-man race over dr. paul. gingrich and santorum not on the ballot in virginia. in vermont, the green mountain state, mitt romney the projected winner. listening to newt gingrich i have to tell you my bigg

prizes, ohio, remained too close to call, with santorum and romney in a virtual tie. romney spent this election night in massachusetts and addressed his support in other words boston, here is some of what he said. >> this, it is wonderful to be able to go home tonight for the first time in two months. [ cheers and applause ] >> and what cash ann said it right. what a great night. we are so excited to be in the bay state tonight, celebrating with family, with friends who have worked just tirelessly on this campaign. and of course it is such an on or to have the citizens that i served as governor as part of our cause. your support really means affirming to ann and me and i am not going to let you down. i am going to get this nomination. >> tonight, we are doing some counting, we are counting up the delegates for the convention and it looks good and counting down the days until november and that looks even better. [ cheers and applause ] >> we are going to take your vote, a huge vote tonight in massachusetts and take that victory all the way to the white house. >> rick santorum celeb

more in ohio and one in alabama. small towns in southern indiana like henryville are facing utter devastation with homes leveled and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. we'll keep you updated on this, this morning as developments come in. >>> but right now i want to turn to one state in particular. this week started with sad news of a different kind from ohio. three were murdered and two injured in a tragic act of violence at chardon high school. and americans turned our eyes to ohio in sadness and mourning. but politicians have had their eye on ohio for much longer. ohio is the pairn yell bellwether, a state rich in kront ra indications. they have labor yunz and rural farmers, ohio is football. highway ho is rock 'n' roll. a decade in decline in manufacturing has hallowed ohio's cities, the poverty in the prairie is striking. ohio is free soil where the und underground railroad ended, it is also the home of old ethnic neighborhoods still defined by the parishes of the church. and ohio is swing voters, lots of them. and that means ohio is a bad place to pander and pivot becaus

ohio. more results now. in tennessee, rick santorum is the projected winner of the tennessee republican primary. santorum is also the projected winner in oklahoma. also, the projected winner in the in the in the caucuses. in the idaho caucuses, mitt romney won a decisive victory. up in massachusetts, mitt romney is the winner and nbc news has allocated all that state's delegates to romney. it's former governor. newt gingrich is the projected winner in his home state of georgia and in that two-man race, romney is the winner over ron paul. finally in verlt, mitt romney is the projected winner of the republican primary in the green mountain state. there you have it. howard fineman is now with us. howard, how would you, i love getting this from you because you're a botmrting all night. in addition to the bottom line where it looked like he was losing momentum and he got a lot of wins tonight, three in a very close loss in ohio, what else happened tonight? >> well, what happened tonight, chris, is that the notion that this is a long, long struggle was reinforced rather than ended.

have fox team coverage. carl cameron is in cincinnati, ohio, ahead of super tuesday. we begin with correspondent dan springer who is live in seattle. good evening, dan. >> yeah. good evening, brett. with 62% of the vote here in washington state counted in the straw poll today, mitt romney has a lead with 37% of the vote. a short time ago, he issued a victory statement that reads in part, i'm heartened to have won the washington caucuses and i thank the voters for their support. every day that passes with barak obama in the white house is a day in which america's recovery from the economic crisis is delayed. here is how the other three candidates faired so far. ron paul at 24%. with rick santorum also at 24%. and newt gingrich at 11%. it was a day with a strong gop turnout here. it was a record turnout for the washington state republican caucus with lines so long at some precinct, not everyone who showed up made it inside to vote before it was over. part of the strong showing is due to timing. washington state always had voted after super tuesday. also for the first time in years, t

delegates out of that process. i sure hope so. >> this is a big election. ohio can make the difference. this is a game of survival. >> i have to win georgia, i think, to be credible in the race. >> i need your help. georgia could be a huge, huge state on election day. >> boy, i'll tell you, georgia turns out for free pancakes, oh, my goodness. >> i believed in you. i placed my bet on the american worker. and i'll make that bet any day of the week. >> every time i hear mr. romney talk about this, i think his daddy must be turning over in his grave. >> i'm here today to tell you that i'm endorsing mitt romney in his candidacy for the presidency of the united states. >> moderates do not have the best chance of winning because they don't inspire with conviction. >> rick santorum is a nice guy but he's an economic lightweight. >> i'm the one candidate on our side who runs on really big ideas. romney was the kind of guy who would have fired christopher columbus. >> what do you feel like when you hear 4,000 people chanting your name? >> i almost feel embarrassed. i wonder why they come. >> go

year of the woman. >> they could have carried mitt romney over the ohio finish line. >> if santorum did better with women, he could have pulled it out in ohio. >> it is mathematically improbable that rick santorum can be the nominee. >> we need a person running against president obama. >> newt gingrich needs to drop out right now for that to happen. >> lots money to run through, i'm the tortoise, i take one step at a time. >> newt won his home state and nothing else yesterday, why is he staying in the race? >> seriously, michael steele, what is going on with mitt romney? >> this is the guy, this is who he is. >> and in 2012, we're going to get him out of the white house. >> he won the most states, he won the most delegates. >> you have to give him his due. >> why does mitt romney still look like a big bowl of cold mashed peas? >> you don't need people that will crawl across broken glass to vote for mitt romney. >> the reality will settle in and they'll understand, mitt romney is going to be the nominee. >> if you don't run chris christie, mitt romney will be the nominee and we'll lo