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

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 struggle was reinforced rather than ended. this was yet another chance for mitt romney to say, look, this is effectively over. we can wrap it up fairly quickly now. but the results don't prove that. even

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 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,

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 delegados, va muy por delante mitt romney, y a ver qué pasa con ohio, vamos con los delegados ganados e

with ed schultz. >>> in mississippi, nbc news has now called the race for rick santorum. this is a major victory for rick santorum and a major defeat for newt gingrich and mitt romney. just hours ago, romney said santorum's campaign was running on fwooirms. fumes. >> the reagan tradition of visionary conservatism was based on proverbs and the deep belief that without vision, the people perish. and i believe we need a visionary leader who is prepared to talk about a dramatically better future withdraw matally more joebs and dramaticallimore more energy and a safer and stronger america. that's the key to win. as i went around talking about $2.50 gas all folks in the media saying, that's not possible. and on saturday, a piece entitled "newt gingrich's right about gasoline." and he walked through step by step why it was possible. and then the fact is, it is very possible. these numbers are amazing. the fact that i'm willing to talk about substance is what makes this campaign different from other campaigns and that's the reason we'll go all the way to tampa to compete. we need at a time

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.

. nbc news projects rick santorum as the winner of the alabama republican primary. in mississippi, nbc news has now called the race for rick santorum. this is a major victory for rick santorum and a major defeat for newt gingrich and mitt romney. just hours ago, romney was saying santorum's campaign was running on fumes. >> the reagan tradition of visionary conservatism is based on proverbs and the very deep belief that without vision the people perish. i believe we need a visionary leader who's prepared to talk about a dramatically better future with dramatically more jobs, dramatically more energy and a much safer and stronger america. i think that's the key to winning this fall. not all this petty baloney but the really big choices. as i went around both states talking about $2.50 gasoline, having all sorts of folks in elite media say, that's not possible, then finally on saturday in "the wall street journal" a piece was entitled, newt gingrich is right about gasoline. and he walked through step by step why it was possible. and the fact is it is very possible. and then yesterday ste

making big decision about whether to punch their ballot for newt gingrich or rick santorum or mitt romney. that's not the way it's worked at all. have you seen the ballot? have you seen what the ballot looks like that republicans were using today in illinois? it's different in every county but this is representative. let's put up the macon county ballot. if you're going vote in illinois, if you want mitt romney to be president, you can i understand indicate that mitt romney is your preference for president of the united states right here on this part of the ballot. whether or not you do that, doesn't really mean anything. it doesn't get totalled for any official purpose. we will tell you tonight what the final results are. that's essentially as important as it is, that's the end of it. those results don't go toward any other purpose. if you want to commit an act of furtherance toward mitt romney getting the nomination, it does not matter whether or not you vote for mitt romney today in illinois. it's true. what you have to do, if you want to help mitt romney become the republican p

mississippi, mitt romney and rick santorum 32%, newt gingrich at 29%. ron paul, fourth place with 6% of the vote. on to alabama, nbc news is declaring the alabama primary at this point too close to call. right now with only 1% of the vote in in alabama, rick santorum with 33%, mitt romney 32%, newt gingrich 27%, ron paul in fourth place with 6%. both of these races in alabama and mississippi not only too close to call but described as three-way races at this point. we're watching the numbers very closely as they come in, don't extrapolate too much from the very small percent of the vote that is in now. take those nbc characterizations of the race seriously but basically we'll watch throughout the night as the numbers come in. whether or not we are talking about the races at any moment right here at the bottom part of the screen you can watch as the percentage of the vote rises and more clarity about these races throughout the hour. >>> while we don't know the winners yet tonight, we do know from the exit polling who turned out today in alabama and mississippi, and what was motivatin

or rick santorum. he said nice things about you. what do you think about that? >> let me tell you, i believe the republican party has done a good job in reaching out to the hispanic community, however we need to do more. it is not about the faces that actually are going to be seen in our ticket in november. it's about the values that will be behind those faces. the hispanic community share many values with the republican party. we have to stress those rarlz f regardless of who appears on our ticket. >> do you like the idea of a vice presidential ticket? >> i love my job and i want to stay here if i can and i enjoy what i'm doing. i look forward to another four years continuing to turn a corner here and make our economy grow. i want to work with the president that will be working hand in hand with us to guarantee that the security we need in the region will assist us in creating jobs. >> very diplomatic answer. good politician. i love puerto rico and i love san juan. stay with us. we will be talking down the road. appreciate you joining us. >> my pleasure. you are welcome any time. >>

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 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,

project that rick santorum is the winner of the louisiana republican primary. santorum will win by a significant margin. we can also project that mitt romney will finish second and newt gingrich third. santorum needed to win tonight and he has. again, rick santorum the projected winner in louisiana. i am alex wagner. here with me tonight from new york magazine, john hileman. and there is breaking news tonight, former vice president dick china has undergone heart transplant surgery. we'll have much more on that story in just a few minutes. john, i want to go to you first. what do we make of this? it was in some ways a predicted outcome, rick santorum winning louisiana. does it do anything for his campaign? >> it keeps it alive. in mitt romney pulled off an upset, it would put the final nails in santorum's coffin. the next time we come here on tuesday -- >> april 3rd is probably when we'll be here next, giving santorum a chance to pull off wisconsin, that is what he'll need to do in order to really have a mathematical chance of securing the nomination is virtually nil. but he still has

" tonight. a huge victory for rick santorum. calling mississippi for the pennsylvania senator. that's after we called alabama for santorum earlier tonight. the candidate spoke just moments ago. ain't no doubt about it. he is taking his momentum into the next contests. >> we will compete everywhere. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure -- to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama who can take him on on every issue. >> all right. let's take a closer look at the numbers in both states. you can see how tight this race was. it took awhile at cnn to make these calls. it was running as a three-man race for most of the evening. alabama, rick santorum 35% lead there. and more votes are coming in. but 98% reporting. mississippi calling later for rick santorum with 33% of the vote. there is no mistaking it. it is rick santorum's night. the candidate who began as a virtual unknown for many americans now ca

my microphone right now. >> okay. >>> we have breaking news tonight. rick santorum wins alabama. and republicans are having a three-way in mississippi. >> it is a deep pride primary day down in dixie. >> it's southern super tuesday. >> the battle for the deepest of the deep red southern states, mississippi and alabama. >> we thought super tuesday was going to give some finality to this race, and it didn't. >> this is a race that has been going on and on and on. >> this is going to go way, way, way into the spring. >> you can't win the nomination if you don't win the south. >> they can't get the folks going down there. >> mitt romney is still struggling with his blue-collar roots. >> my father never graduated from college. he apprenticed as a laugh-and-plaster carpenter. >> his blue-collar roots don't exist. >> he's been back and forth, back and forth. >> he flip-flops. >> he has been eating grits and saying y'all. >> i'm learning to say y'all. morning, y'all. i like grits. i got started right this morning with biscuits and cheesy grits. >> grits. >> cheesy grits strategy isn't workin

. in both those big important bell-weathery states, rick santorum gave mitt romney a run for his money. but ohio and michigan also show really clearly i think the two most important dynamics, the two biggest stories in the republican partiests to pick their presidential nominee this year. look at the two races. look how close. this was the result in ohio, and this was the result in michigan. so close, right? in a race that close you start thinking about all the little things that could have made a difference. if you picked up a point in this group or turnout two points higher when it's this close, my marginal change in any one group of reasonable size can make all the difference. you can parse results this close, you can parse them to high heaven. you know what is not subtle about the results, when you don't need to do the math to understand the importance of? it's this guy. ding. to the extent that republican primary voters are being asked do you want mitt romney as your nominee or not, the "or not" vote between rick santorum and newt gingrich, really easily beats mitt romney in

now are 19% in, mitt romney 54% of the vote, rick santorum, 28% of the vote, ron paul 9% of the vote, newt gingrich, 7% of the vote. we'll be watching those percentages in the rankings of the other candidates as the percentages of the vote increases. this is exciting. this is election night. republicans in the great state of illinois making big consequential decisions whether to punch their ballot for mitt romney, rick santorum, ron paul or newt gingrich. actually, that's not the way it has worked at all. have you seen what the ballot looks like that republicans were using tonight in illinois? it's different in every county, but this is representative. let's put up the macon county ballot. if you're going to vote in illinois and you're voting in macon county, which is right in the middle of the state, if you want mitt romney to be president, you can indicate you want mitt romney to be president of the united states, but whether or not you do that, it doesn't really mean anything. it does not get totaled for any official purpose. we will tell you tonight what the final results are of

>>> indiana showdown. the polls are closed in that state. did rick santorum close the deal? >> everybody knows full well my passion about defeating barack obama. >>> enough is enough! >> the killing of trayvon martin. >> no more! >> outrage intensifies across the country. the latest, a call for vigilante justice. >> we want justice! >>> science and justice. a new law offering new hope for crime victims. >> this is truly amazing. science doesn't lie. >> all that and more, right here, right now on cnn. >>> hello, everyone, i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. i would like to welcome our viewers from around the world tonight. we're starting with breaking political news. the republican race for the white house. cnn projects rick santorum has won the louisiana presidential primary, giving the former pennsylvania senator another victory in the south. our tom forman is in washington. joe johns is in new orleans. crystal wright is in d.c. and monitoring rick santorum in green bay, wisconsin, to see if he speaks live in a moment. let's get straight to tom forman, who has been tr

rick santorum in alabama and mississippi. two states that earlier the gingrich campaign said they had to win. they backed off of that. and said they needed to perform well in these two states. gingrich pointing out that a third of the delegates, roughly will go to each candidates fighting in both of those states. and he says that means that the gel del git battle goes on and he goes on. despite calls for him to get out of the race he says he's in the race. and he'll stay in the race. senior national correspondent john roberts is in louisiana site of the rick santorum celebration, on the way to puerto rico. good evening, john. >> yes. the party is over here, but this was really a big night for rick santorum. he'd been trailing in all poll goesing into this primary and didn't think he was going to do well. he was circumspect. then, he is going to get a lot of delegates out of this. so will newt gingrich. i managed to speak to him on his way to catching that plane to puerto rico. and i said to him, in you're speech tonight you said it's time now for conservatives to unite to get behi

republican senator rick santorum, of pennsylvania, the is the projected winner of the alabama republican prooichl. right now in terms 06, how much percentage of the vote do we have in? >> 99% of the vote. rick santorum projected to wix with 35% of the vote. the same story in the gate state of mississippi. rick santorum has been declared the winner the mississippi republican primary in terms of the vote in mississippi. this is important to say. >>> this is, most of all, a bad night for newt gingrich. let's be honest. its within a great night for risks but mostly, a bad night for newt gingrich. i want you to hear from rick santorum addressing his supporters in lafayette, louisiana, a short time ago. >> we did it again! i just want to say first to the people of alabama, you made a great difference tonight, thank you very, very much for your support. we'll compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate conservative to go

republican presidential race again. as rick santorum showed surprising strength. >> good evening, i am judy woodruff. >> a and i am again eiffel we will have the latest results and analysis on this pbs special report on today's voting from alaska to georgia .. >> mitt romney had hoped to over wellment his rivals tonight, instead he found himself in a fierce struggle with rick santorum. >> romney claimed wins in three states, massachusetts, where he was once governor, and vermont and virginia. but santa santa bested him in the north dakota caucuses and the oklahoma and tennessee primaries. >> and newt gingrich came up with a single win in his home state of georgia. >> one of the night's biggest 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 excite

in ohio is too close to call. it is former pennsylvania senator rick santorum with a one-point lead over mitt romney right now with 86% of the vote in. it is very, very close. a difference of just over 3,000 votes with 86% of the vote in. in idaho, the caucuses are under w way, and no characterization of the race in idaho yet. now, to some of the races we have already called. in north dakota, rick santorum is the projected winner of the caucuses in north dakota, and mr. santorum is the projected winner tennessee and the projected winner in oklahoma. mitt romney the projected winner of his home state of massachusetts and nbc news has allocated all of the massachusettsegates to mitt romney who is the former governor of massachusetts. and the strange two-man race where the virginia republican party set such strict rules to get on the ballot that in the strange, strange decision by virginians that effectively took them off of the primary map this year, mitt romney is the projected winner the two-man race over ron paul. mr. gingrich and mr. santorum are not on the ballot in virginia. in

rick santorum as the winner of the alabama republican primary. in mississippi, nbc news has now called the race for rick santorum. this is a major victory for rick santorum and major defeat for mitt romney and newt gingrich. hours ago they were saying santorum's campaign was running on fumes. >> the reagan tradition of visionary conservatism is based on proverbs and the very deep belief that without vision the people perish. i believe we need a visionary leader who is prepared to talk about a dramatically better future with dramatically more jobs, dramatically more energy and a much safer and stronger america. i think that's the key to winning this fall. not all this petty baloney, but the really big choices. and as i went around both states talking about $2.50 gasoline, having all sorts of folks in the elite media say, oh, that's not possible, then finally on saturday in "the wall street journal," jennings wrote a piece entitled "newt gingrich is right about gasoline." he walked through step by step why it was possible. and the fact is, it is very possible. and then yesterday steven m

rick santorum wouldn't buy it. >> i heard governor romney call me an economic lightweight. because i wasn't a wall street financefinancier like he was. >> he compared his effort to ronald reagan while speaking in reagan's hometown in dixon illinois. >> reagan ran that campaign in 1976, and people were saying why don't you get out of the race, you have no chance of winning. and he fought and he won 11 states in 1976. >> of course, reagan also lost his fight for the nomination that year to incumbent president gerald ford. for the lacety from the g.o.p. primary let's go to chicago and "countdown" correspondent david schuster. >> eliott, how are you. >> is illinois a swing state? what is the state of the play. >> the state of play is that the romney campaign feels pretty confident about how things are going. one adviser thinks they're going win as long as turnout doesn't fall off a cliff and it might because of the negative ads coming from the romney campaign. saying that santorum is a lightweight, and that ad is running in every media market. he's hammering rick santorum saying that san

, the worse it is for them this november. plus, giving newt the boot. rick santorum has been saying it all week and said it again today. it's quitting time for newt gingrich. what santorum needs, of course s what mitt romney fears. an unobstructed race between the two. also, voter i.d. laws are being passed, allegedly to stop voter fraud. are those new rules really to make voting harder? now for tonight's off the waller. sarah palin says the problem with barack obama is that he wasn't properly vetted back in '08. why would she try out that little sugar plum on the same weekend the game change is coming out? what a movie and what it says about politics at our highest level. we begin with the economy. susan page is washington bureau chief for "usa today." david corny is a political analyst. this economic news today, the number is at 8.3. i thought it might go up. it didn't. also, a half million people joining the work force. >> a third good month of job news. things moving in the right direction for the president. unemployment still pretty high. 8.3%, historically high. no president r

his hometown race. and high stakes on super tuesday, what rick santorum and newt gingrich need to do and where they need to win to slow romney down. with pump prices climbing ever higher, the obama administration is feeling the heat, but do they really want lower gas prices? ♪ welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. a double victory on tuesday in michigan and arizona put presidential hopeful mitt romney back on top of the republican race, a position he's held and lost several times before in the primary process. so, how did he do it? can the same strategies help him in super tuesday states? let's ask, wall street journal columnist and editor, dan henninger. jason o'reilly, member, dorothy rabinowicz, and kim strassel. how did romney do it? can he keep doing it? >> i think so. in the exit polls, people for whom the economy was the biggest issue, romney won by 17 points. >> paul: yeah, that's remarkable. >> and he also won in detroit, wayne county, and macomb county, and so-called reagan democrat county, which is to say in areas where their people are under the most

advantages. >> the end for rick santorum. >> he actually is writing president obama's campaign commercials. >>neil: they have all had their say. fair and balanced we thought it was a good idea for rick santorum to have his. and he will. to cover all of our bases so will his top financial backer. is he still, behalfing him? we will ask foster friess because foster friess is here and only here, as well. welcome, everyone, i am neil cavuto and romney left it at a tippy statement, i was disappointing to hear that rick santorum would regard have president obama as president than a republican. to election is more important than any one person. it is about the future of america. any of the republicans running would be better than president obama and his record of failure. romney spokesman was more blunt. saying and i quote, "senator santorum is not only embarrassing himself with ill-advised comments but damaging the conservative movement." now it is time, senator rick santorum is here to respond finally on the phone. senator, good to have you. a lot of folks say you committed political suicide. >

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 that she must be paid to have sex? what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? makes her a prostitute. >> it is not the language i would have used. >> msnbc brings complete coverage of tonight's super tuesday primaries and caucuses with the analysis of chris matthews, host of "hardball," ed schultz of "the ed show," lawrence o'donnell of the last word, al sharpton of "politics nation" and former john mccain senior strategist steve schmidt. we live for nights like this. and msnbc's cove

rick santorum with 33% of the vote. there is no mistaking it. it is rick santorum's night. the candidate who began as a virtual unknown for many americans now can say his appeal stretches from middle america all the way down to the deep south. a big part of what we heard from his communications director tonight. jim acosta is live at rick santorum's headquarters right now in lafayette. jim acosta, what was the -- i guess, the celebration there. there was a bit of surprise. they seemed to have down played expectations coming into this. >> you're right about that, erin. when rick santorum said we did it again. cheers went up in this room. then later on in his speech he talked about how he did not see one poll in mississippi that showed him winning this contest tonight. and so i think this results in the deep south even surprised the santorum campaign. hi a chance to catch up with the former pennsylvania senator after his speech here for just a few moments. if anybody noticed rick santorum sounding hoarse tonight, that's because he's recovering from a cold. the next question for t

projects that rick santorum has won the louisiana primary, giving the former pennsylvania senator another win in the south. we're going to go straight to our tom foreman, who has keen insight into louisiana voters. he's been tracking the exit poll data all evening. tom, how can we make this call at closing time for the polls? >> well, you said the exit poll data, don. really that's it. this is a case where all you have to do is the math because it is overwhelming. 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 numbe

report right no now. >> a second win for rick santorum tonight. cnn projects rick santorum the winner of the oklahoma primary he needed this win, he got this win. rick santorum, the former oppose senator getting his second win of the night. earlier, won tennessee. oklahoma, and important state, 40 delegates at stake. rick santorum the winner. let's show you the votes in oklahoma right now, how we made this projection, based on exit poll results, rick santorum out of the exit poll. now, we have 15% of the official vote in, santorum with 34%, 18,594. 27% for romney, also 27% for gingrich, a close contest for second place in oklahoma right now with 15%, now 16% of the vote in. ron paul coming in third. but rick santorum, we project is the winner, is the winner in oklahoma. earlier, we projected he's the winner in tennessee. ohio is still very very close. we have not been able to make a projection. look how close it is with 20% of the vote in ohio in right now. 38% for santorum. he's almost 2,000 votes ahead of mitt romney with 37%. 88,111 for santorum, 96,159 for romney. 35,332, 1

getting interesting. it's a huge night for rick santorum with wins in alabama and mississippi. listen to the moment when the candidate, rick santorum, learned he had won not just one, but two southern states. >> if you folks do your part and you help us like the folks in alabama and hopefully the folks in mississippi did -- we did? i guess. >> how happy is he? how happy is his family? back with us right now, our expert cnn team. john, this is a very significant night for rick santorum. just when so many of the so-called experts were saying romney had it all but done, not is fast. >> could romney lock it up or another revival for newt gingrich. he loses in the two south states. he says he's staying in. now the questions are can santorum find a path to challenge romney? it would be easier if gingrich gets out. the math, the rules, the history. everything tells you it's still romney over the long hall into may and june. but you know what? our politics have been outside the rules. we elected our first african-american president. the tea party movement came out of nowhere. so let's