gingrich has 24 delegates, rick santorum 13, ron paul three and former candidate jon huntsman two. in our exit poll today, another thing florida voters told us was that they are sick of the negative ads. it wouldn't be primary night without our primary washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation" bob schieffer. bob, what are you hearing about that? >> schieffer: i tell you one thing, scott. if romney wins tonight-- as every indication is that he will-- it won't be hard to figure out why. he dumped nearly $16 million worth of negative ads on newt gingrich. gingrich spent about $4 million. i mean, this thing has gotten so nasty down here that dave berry, the columnist in for the miami "herald" said today florida should have prepared for it like they prepare for a hurricane. but he said "instead of nailing plywood over your windows they should have nailed it on the front of their television sets." >> pelley: the candidates have gone at each other so hard. somebody in the newsroom today said the winner of the florida primary might be president obama. >> well, he hasn't won

rick santorum and ron paul vowing to stay in the race. gingrich will stay through the republican convention in late august this year. what does this mean for the gop? senator mcconnell was asked about that. >> senator, it looks like whatever the results are, the contest may go on for a while. newt gingrich would like to go all the way to the convention. how concerned are you doing something like that might hurt the senate republicans' efforts to gain some momentum? >> i don't think the primary voters out in the presidential contest need any advice from me, certainly, about who to support or how quickly to end it. it will end when it ends. at that point, we will have a nominee who is very competitive. i think we have an excellent chance to have a new president next year. we're all watching like you are the drama associated with this contest. it is reminisce sent between the contest of obama and bush in 2008. i don't think this contest is going to do us any harm. thank you. >> senator mitch mcconnell weighing in on the 2012 republican race.

reporter: romney is already setting his sights on february contests like nevada and colorado, where rick santorum and ron paul, both of who have ceded the florida winner take all primary have turned their attention. >> they want to say the race is over, the nomination is sealed. baloney. >> reporter: this is ron mott track newt gingrich in central florida where today the former speaker found comfort in plant city. pressing ahead for votes, despite what appeared to be long odds for victory here. >> it doesn't look good for romney because of the absentees where he spent millions of dollars before we got here. >> reporter: the going has been particularly going since his win ten days ago in south carolina. >> gingrich resigned from congress in disgrace. >> reporter: nonstop ads hit him around the clock. two less than stellar debate performances, and late this amp, confirmation that the campaign did robocall voters. >> romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher. still, gingrich managed to work in a bit of comedy on the trail. >> how close is this to being over? >> i would

. >>> votÓ por santorum. >>> me atrajo sus principios, y su fe. >>> ni santorum, ni paul estÁn en la florida. >>> mitt romney parece que estÁ en camino a recuperarse de cuando fue derrotado aquÍ en la florida, en el 2008, m cain me ganÓ en la primaria, y mccain apoya a mitt romney en la contienda, el ganador se lleva 50 delegados, y tendrÁ lugar aquÍ en tampa en el verano. regreso contigo marÍa elena. >>> jorge, y dÉjame preguntarte lourdes, muchos describen a la florida como una miniamÉrica, por quÉ es importante, la elecciÓn, y quÉ influencia tiene a nivel nacional? >>> tremenda prueba, y tremenda influencia, florida el cuarto estado mayor del paÍs, tiene una diversidad especialmente importante, diversidad de hispanos como hablamos, y tambiÉn diversidad de poblaciÓn en general, de sexo, de edad, una serie de partido polÍtico, y afiliaciÓn polÍtica, la florida es clave, para determinar si mitt romney reunirÁ a sectores de votantes en una elecciÓn general. >>> muchas gracias, ahora tenemos una historia de lo que pasa cuando no se sabe contar bien el jefe del partid

is a two-man race in florida, with santorum and ron paul trailing and have essentially written off the state. >> there are 32 days left in cells and -- until super tuesday. before you cast your ballot, check out our profiles on the politics pages of our website, wbaltv.com. >> authorities in baltimore city are investigating a deadly police involved shooting that began as an attempt to stop the vehicle in baltimore county. lowell melser has been tracking the bizarre turn of events. he joins us with late breaking details. >> this certainly was not your typical police chased car. actually ended here in south baltimore in front of this lowe's earlier this morning. at this point, police are still not releasing that the name of the suspect or giving any possible reason why he was so anxious to run from police. police activity lines the patapsco village shot in plaza on annapolis road in south baltimore early tuesday morning after a suspect is shot and killed by baltimore county and anne arundel county officers. the bizarre situation unfold around 2:00 in the morning when a baltimore county o

now, you know, rick santorum for president, he doesn't just talk of conservatives. >> i am he' rick santorum and i approve the message. >> so much for all positive ads. >> and so much for the idea of telling him to get out of race, what a good idea that's turning out to be. i can't imagine anything less likely, rick santorum is a pretty tough guy, been around for a while and capable of showing his teeth. less likely, get out and tell him to. i think ale be around for a while and look, gingrich, he may have kind of you know, taken it a step too far with his comments about holocaust survivors or whatever, and the whole, and depending on the margin tonight may be somebody looking for an alternative to other than romney. he could, i think he could rise again, he's aattractive guy, he's-- >> gingrich could rise again? >> no, ruling gingrich out, can't rule gingrich out, but santorum could rise again and gingrich is seen as faltering bad youly here, so. >> bret: what about ron paul, rich? he's spent time in maine and he's organized in the caucus states and's not going anywhere. >> yeah, well, he m

romney picks up a lot of the santorum people. it's not clear if san torp up did drop out it would necessarily hurt romney all that much. >> romney was trailing gingrich in the wall street journal nbc poll head on head nationally the two of them. that will be influenced by what does happen tonight. i think that the problem for gingrich going forward is we hit a fall owe period. i mean, chances for him to change the narrative. we have only one debate this month which has been his principal forum. secondly i mean he's not on the ballot in missouri. and the organization is required in those caucus states where he might be able to do well but he doesn't have the organization. >> ifill: fortunately i'm sorry to interrupt you. fortunately all night to talk about this. i'll see you back again for west coast updates and for a special tonight. mark shieldsing david brooks, thanks a lot. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. mitt romney was confident and newt gingrich defiant as republicans cast ballots in florida's winner-

santorum is no longer a factor. we go to the next few states, the delegates chosen here, 15 probably contested anyway, the rnc rules on apportionment, i think romney 83, newt 25, you got to have 1,144 to win. we go on from here, we will look at the tea party posts, snubbed completely by romney in florida, people that really question whether he is the right one to be candidate, newt who is better off financially and then the blackmail, a report on that this morning, better than he was coming out of south carolina so regardless of the outcome tonight, this race is going on and newt gingrich is ahead in the polls nationally right now as we speak and one other thing, i know it might not be popular to say on your network but the fact is that george soros this weekend said there wouldn't be much difference if romney were elected than if obama were president but a huge difference if newt gingrich were and newt gingrich is the shakeup artist and i think that's not going to serve romney well among the base of the party in th

. >> rick santorum and ron paul planned speeches from nevada tonight. dramatically outspent in florida, they're focusing on the next caucus states. >>> it feels a little like florida today here in maryland. 60-degree temperatures seemed to bring everyone outside today. wjz found these parents in rogers forge, treating their little ones to a midwinter trip to the playground. >> taking a live look outside right now. the sun has set. but we've still enjoying mild temperatures. how long can we enjoy this break from winter? meteorologist bernadette woods and bob turk are updating this weather. >> it was extremely mild. take a look at readings right now, as of 6:00, it's still 60 degrees. the coolest spots down by the water, ocean city at 49. 61 in cumberland. and 60 over in washington. but these temperatures right now, compared to yesterday at this hour, 21 degrees warmer. 22 degrees warmer in hagerstown. and 20 in cumberland. will it last? how much longer can it last? and how about a look at the crazy two months we've had? bernadette has a look at these num

santorum helps romney stay. in gingrich does not. gingrich does not live off the land, he lives off vile and red bull. gingrich closed out this campaign in florida wonderfully in my eyes. he called his opponent governor romney breathlessly dishonest, despicable. he's coming unglued with these personal attacks. and will he be able to run on those fumes or will he kind of clean himself out? >> you say he lives on speed you mean moving fast? >> moving fast and getting revved up. i don't mean that literally. >> i want to come back to this point that i do believe as alex said if romney wins big tonight he puts that cloak of inevitability back on. he becomes a much much more likely nom knee. and the romney people i think are going to want to close this thing down. i talked to a somewhat major figure in the romney campaign today he said we're going to try to persuade him not to do more debates. we've had uneven results with that. we'll have to wait and see what happens. you've got to think about it from the romney point of view and a lot of

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. >> reporter: rounding it out is rick santorum and ron paw. neither will win and neither are in the state. >> in a week's time, we'll send a message. >> reporter: for gingrich and romney, a win means 50 much needed del gas. a loss mean has hit to your momentum,e1xd wary campaign dons and for gingrich,Ñi a disappointing follow-up to hisr >> they leavexd floridaxdçó and there'sçóx@xd açó message theyye to compete inñ1/w3 a stateÑiÑi 0 major media markets. i think obama can win the presidency without florida. i don't think the republicans can win the presidency without florida. >> reporter: the last polls here close at 8:00 eastern. >> so that has a major impact on the race. can you tell us a little bit about that? >> reporter: a major impact. we're talking about 632,000 early votes and absentee ballots. that's or than the numb where of -- number of votes coming out of is being -- out of south carolina. this might work to mitt romney's favor. 51% are going for romy. 29% going for gingrich. there's that huge advantage. you also have to r

two candidates competing for winner take all mitt romney and newt gingrich, rick santorum looking at nevada and other caucuses as well as congressman ron paul of the nevada caucuses taking place this weekend. meanwhile a note about politics and a republican super political committee and its nonprofit arm saying it has raised $51 million this year in an effort to defeat the president, super pac among the first group whose finances are reported today. super pac a product of that 2010 supreme court ruling on citizens united that removed restrictions on corporations and union spending in federal elections. at the bottom of the hour we'll have more on the isn't of state as she goes to work to talk about sanctions to try to bring down the assad regime. as many as 450 killed in the last month. the president holding a cabinet meeting talking about jobs and economy. let's begin with this announcement of the budget office predicting the deficit will rise to just over a trillion dollars in 2012. the office also projected that the jobless rate will increase to about 8.9%. currently across the co

tighten romney to the idea of manipulating and pushing paper and getting rich -- i'm surprised that break santorum has not made more of that argument with his manufacturing focus. but that the bigger vulnerability than the sheer size of his bank account. tavis: if mr. romney as expected pulls off floor on tuesday night, can mr. gingrich hang on long enough past february to get to super tuesday were all of those southern states and his message to christian conservatives plays well? can he hang on long enough? and if he does, what happens past february? >> that is the $64,000 question. the republican race is dividing the a. the sentimental -- right along the fundamental fault line in the party. the fundamental fault line ithee affluent, more secular part of the party that has rallied around from a. and a blue-collar, downscale, evangelical wing that isn't the teapot people -- the tea party populists -- that is the tea party populists of the party. gingrich has got to get three very difficult month of february where he may not win anything. historically, there have been few candidates i can go a long

the problem he's not going to have money to go forward and neither will rick santorum. >> eric, do you have a special phone ring for her, and sarah palin calls, drop everything? >> bat signal, you look out the window and see the shape of sarah palin's head in clouds. >> and i did a head on green energy and ask you about newt gingrich. >> is that her pin? >> oh, andrea, you went there. >> i love it. >> i love it. >> i'm teasing you. >> there's some rumblings among the left that because of the negative tiffness of the campaign in florida and especially romney's, 15 million dollars spent on mostly from primarily negative ads, it's going to kind of inspire or bring the angst, conservative angst. >> of course in the general election, right. >> and keep everything going longer. >> and i think, it could make a fair comparison though to the clinton, obama, 2008 primary in that record and clinton and obama when it gets down to about may, real nasty, saying things about each campaign saying things about each other they would like to take back and amend your words and three months later he become

. >> rick santorum and ron paul planned speeches from nevada tonight. both were gramat -- dramatically outspent in florida and are focusing on the next caucus states. >>> maryland is enjoying 60- degree temperatures in january t. is the perfect day to break out those light jackets or even wear short sleeves. wjz found crowds of people enjoying the outdoors in charles village this afternoon. now, the sun is on its way down, as we take a live look outside. it is turning into a clear, beautiful tuesday evening, just gorgeous sunset. wjz is live with first warning weather. meteorologist bernadette woods and bob turk are updating our conditions. we'll start inside with bob. >> it was tough to come inside. let me tell you. unablably warm. 63 now. we did get up to 66. and that is normal for april 20th. yes. 60 in washington now. 59 in easton. these temperatures today are 20, as you can see. 20 degrees warmer than this same time yesterday. at 15 degrees warmer in oakland. 24 degrees warmer in cumberland. so how insane have these temperatures been for the last 6

romney got a little bit of a bump if santorum supporters were recalculated in our poll. almost hit 50%. this isn't a perfect one to one ratio or perfect edition that newt gingrich would like voters to believe. >> how much staying power does newt gingrich have? >> the guy's risen and fallen twice now, three times, i guess this is his third fall. he's had two rises. if you were him, what incentive is there to get out? you see how this race has gone. every time he's been counted out, he's been resurrected. for him, it's all about trying to gloss past february, and somehow get to march super tuesdays and those primaries that are all over in this month of march. that's something he hopes to do. the problem you point out is money. he hasn't raised a lot of money for his own campaign and he's been backed by one wealthy household in nevada. the question,will they keep writing $500 million checks to a super pac. that's the big unknown going into an odd month for newt gingrich where he may not have one place he can win. >> signing day in the sunshine state. chuck todd, thanks so m

santorum has 14. and ron paul has just four. before the voting was finished in florida, early ballots were being cast in ohio. danielle nottingham is live in tampa watching the polls there. danielle. >> reporter: it's been a week full of name calling and negative ads and even though there are four names on the ballot, it's a two-man race. mitt romney hopes to take the stage as the primary winner.

rick santorum has and has a very good plan and he is the only one i would back. i don't know how you can vote in florida without knowing what their plans are. guest: i think they all have detailed economic plans. santorum certainly has been very vocal about his plans and so are the other candidates. what has happened in florida and particularly in the two debates is that we had two candidates where their roles were reversed. romney won new hampshire and went into south carolina. newt gingrich won south carolina and then we had a real contest and rick santorum won iowa. those of us in florida always thought what it should be, which is a tie-breaker and what happens, the candidates stray away from their talking points and talk about what is wrong with their opponent and that is what we have seen in these last two debates. a lot of time attacking each other. i thought rick santorum had his best debate at the last debate in jacksonville and most articulate not only about what he believed but the difference in his platform and the other candidates. in a state like flo

and rick santorum met some of the people there twice. it's a different system here. 1.9 million republicans voted in this state four years ago. the numbers expected to be more than that as there are 200,000 more registered republicans in the state since four years ago. 600,000 folks have voted by early ballot. that was before today. obviously, the way the candidates are able to relate to most of the folks in this state is by that barrage of advertising. we had a chance to speak to mitt romney. we posed the question to him. at some point, is there an impact of the negative ads on you as if you become the nominee with the independents in the state? there's already some polls showing that he has dropped in terms of favorability 20% in this state because of these negative ads. people associate him as a negative guy, which some would view offmessage. his answer to me was this is the system. it's the way it was built. we wish there didn't have to be negative ads. i believe people want a new president. this strategy has been working. today admi

. >>> ron paul and rick santorum aren't expecting much. they have already 3406d west, looking for greener pastures. dana, why is santorum in nevada? what's his strategy to stay in this race? >> reporter: the answer is because he knew he was not going to do well at all in florida. as gloria was just saying, that state is winner take all. notice vr now he has opened up literally four days ago. he's already got some volunteers coming in, making calls, registered republican voters about rick santorum and about the caucuses where they can go to vote this is very different from what we thought would happen, but he decided to come west because of what also gloria was mentioning. this state as with others are proportional. even if he can get three delegates that could add up, especially if you look at other states he's going to compete in for the next contest, which is february 7th, colorado, missouri and minnesota. they're hoping that with all of those, that he can at least get -- tick his delegate number up a bit to stay in the race. >> what hav

ron paul at 10% and santorum at 12. we're going to use clear politics as a way to synthesize these polls as they came out. it is usually a broad-based gathering of the polls and the results are pretty accurate. what we'll show you now excuse me as i bump this across. the republican and the democratic numbers here, 36% of registered voters are republican. 41% are registered democrats. this is a very interesting slide because the approval ratings for governor scott has actually taken a hike. it used to be around in the 20% but governor scott is now at 43% range. you'll still notice that none of these candidates are campaigning next to rick stock unlike south carolina we saw a lot of campaigning for romney. not a lot of people standing next to rick scott. highways gone on a charm offensive but i'm not sure if it will work yet. governor romney has 21 delegates. this is before tomorrow. gingrich with 23. gingrich has more delegates than romney does. the total number is 1144, the kicker is that we're very early in this whole

florida, just we candidates, newt gingrich and romney, still active live campaigning, and paul and santorum have left for lesser expensive markets. back to you. >> is there any sense you are getting, steve, from the people you talked to, that the personal swipes, that the candidates have been taking or devoid of policy or issue discussions or how they will turn the economy around, that hurt them or, just, has it just turned east voters? >>guest: there are two different sides. we have heard both sides saying the attack ads work and they will continue to attack and we find dissatisfaction and disgust with the voter including hearing "disgrace," and "liar," but the canidates state it is working in the campaigning. >>neil: talk about a contact sport. there is a new anything -- a new newt gingrich supporter fighting or attacking a ron paul supporter. and he is fighting back. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our town. [ dog barks ] for our country. ♪ for our future. ♪ this isn't just the car we wanted to build. it's the car america had to build. ♪ the extended range electric chevy volt. from the

. >> trailing in the polls ron paul and rick santorum have already moved their campaigns to states further down the road. things are looking good for mitt romney in primary states ahead. nevada's contest is saturday. that state has a large mormon population. michigan tend of his february, that's where his father was governor. as for newt gingrich he's focusing on southern states that vote in march. back to you. >>> a proposal to increase the business tax for san jose's marijuana dispensaries is on today's city council agenda. current light tacts rate for pot dispensaries is 7% of gross receipts. the proposal calls for increasing the rate to 10%. city council members may not take any action today and could continue the discussion during their february 14 meeting. >>> an investigation is underway after a park ranger it's add man who was walking his two small dogs off leash. the "the san francisco chronicle" reports the incident happened sunday at rancho corral on the san mateo coast. the area is now part of the golden gate national recreation area and requires leashes for all dogs. the man a

>>carl: ron paul and rick santorum left the florida campaign trail several days ago. acknowledging this this is a winner take all state and they are not going to win so waste waste time and money in florida when there are other contests where they think they can compete better specific hi because of their caucus. on saturday nevada and maine have caucuses, maine is a week long process and ron paul and rick santorum are competing in those because they believe that because it is a smaller group of people that can be organized perhaps their candidacies can do better and then there is the colorado battle, which is a week from today and it also is a caucus and, today, rick santorum has unveiled a new commercial aimed specifically at newt gingrich raising the question, with sort of a three-card motiff, asked who backed bailouts, and cap and trade legislation, and amnesty for illegal immigrants, and listen to how, and watch out the santorum ad reveals the three politicians. >> who are these three bailout supporting soft on immigration big mandate politicians? now we know. >>

i just gave santorum pennsylvania for the sake of argument. if you don't agree with me, we can switch out and give it to romney. you keep going. these states here, i gave the southern ones to gingrich, the northern ones to romney. for the sake of argument let's give it to newt gingrich. we keep playing it out. nebraska, oregon, give those to romney up there. the southern states, kentucky, arkansas, give those to gingrich. come out here, california, here's where money is going to matter. that's when you get to the finish line. when you get to these big states out here. when you start getting out here into the big states, the northern states, that's a problem, but that's way down the line. that would be june 5th. hang in there, bro. don't stay in tampa the whole time. >> you don't want to cover politics until june? >> a reporter's convention is a reporter's dream. we could be here a while. >> john king, we'll be seeing you tonight. we'll be watching a special edition of jkusa 6:00 eastern right here on cnn. >>> i want to bring out a chairman fro

santorum is gone. ron paul is gone. gingrich should have every reason to consolidate the conservative vote. if he doesn't do it, i don't know what his argument is going toward. >> given that ron paul and rick santorum are trailing in florida, as expected they would what are they doing after tomorrow? they still hang around or fold it up? >> yeah, well, ron paul will not go away. he'll get a suit that fits before he gets out of this race. but now santorum, here is an interesting scenario. next tuesday we've got caucuses in other states, and they don't pick delegates in missouri in that primary on tuesday. it is a beauty contest, and gingrich did not get on the ballot. so you've got a big anti-abortion vote and missouri there is a chance santorum, if he did well, by some chance he even won that comake the argument to conservatives look, get gingrich out of the race. if he is out of the race i can beat romney. that's a fantasy campaign notion but who knows. >> keep hope alive. craig crawford, enjoy your home state and than

rick santorum won't drop out of the race so people can align behind him. mitt romney is being mean to him. it's really hard to be newt these days, in newt's ahead. >> newt has a point. he is fighting for what he would deem to be the legacy of ronald reagan. we know that mitt romney changes his positions more time than a hindu god. he does have a point? >> i'm not going to talk theology with you. he's receiving what he's ben doing for the last three decades as well. if he thinks he's not a flip-flopper, the paul ryan plan, sitting on that wonderful couch with nancy pelosi and attacking barack obama for being born in kenya, that's the whole thing here. the attacks that are coming against newt, a lot of them happen to be true. he just can't admit that. >> only 5% of gop delegates will be awarded. even if gingrich is wiped away today in florida, he still has something to go forward in february with, doesn't he? >> oh, sure. i think that's mitt romney's worth nightmare. newt is the gift that will keep on giving clearly through february even though he can't win

and rick santorum and ron paul are nowhere near florida today. they are both campaigning in nevada, which holds its caucuses on saturday. in tampa, susan mcginnis, cbs news. back to you. >>> the state controller says that california will run out of cash in just a matter of weeks if it doesn't act fast to scrape up some cash. john chiang says $3.3 is needed by the beginning of march to maintain the state's cash cushion. lawmakers thought there was enough to make it through the fiscal year but tax revenues fell short of expectations while spending has exceeded them. >>> if you have an appointment at kaiser today, call ahead. employees across the state are staging a massive strike over an ongoing contract dispute. the negotiations actually involve only a few thousand workers but as lisa washington shows us, they got plenty of company on the picket lines. >> reporter: we have been here since this protest began at 7 a.m. and i can tell you that the crowd has certainly grown. what's happening right now is a rally. it was scheduled to begin at noon but

it's been an uphill battle for rick santorum. but on monday with polls putting him in third or worse, the former senator from pennsylvania decided to cut his losses and refocus energy on upcoming caucus states. then looking at ron paul, he skipped florida, as you mentioned, to focus on maine and other states. but for the two gentlemen focusing there, tell us more about where they're putting their efforts and why it matters. >> it's interesting. despite florida's diversity, we do have very conservative electorate among republican voters. so you do see a significant number of republican considering themselves social conservatives or strong fiscal conservatives, strong republicans and this will be a true republican primary in that sense. there are really four critical regions of the state running statewide or in a presidential in florida. the first and the one you hear the most often talked about in national press is the all famous now i-4 corridor. that is really the area around interstate 4 from hillsboro or tampa county and tampa

my sense is santorum had a very strong debate in jacksonville at the last debate. i think he may overperform his numbers. and that will make it more difficult for gingrich to convince republicans that santorum should leave the race. if santorum does perform ahead of where he is polling, there is more of an argument that can be made that he should stay in the race longer, stay and go forward and see how he can do in the caucuses and primaries that are coming up in february. so we'll see. >> let's take a listen to newt gingrich, one of his most recent campaign ads. ♪ >> fraud? well, never mind. after a 3 1/2 year examination, the internal revenue service, bill clinton's irs, has issued an official finding, no violation of tax laws. critics said the course which was videotaped and widely distribute the was too political, a scheme to use a tax exempt educational foundation to promote a republican agenda and elect republican candidates. but in a 74-page memorandum, the irs said otherwise. "the course taught principles from american civilization that could be used by e

even santorum and paul are not far out. but gingrich a little ahead of romney. so why is there such a big difference between florida and the national polls? newt gringrich has a theory. let's hear him out. >> the governor has the ability to raise an amazing amount of money. and he has a policy of carpet bombing his opponent. he doesn't build up mitt romney. he tears down whoever he's running against. >> i think that's relatively right. in florida romney has a 5-1 advantage. he spent $15.3 million. and gingrich, and i love the word "only," only $3.4 million. so 5-1 advantage for romney and all of a sudden romney is winning florida although the numbers have not moved other places in the nation because they didn't get bombarded or carpet bombed by those ads. michael shure correct or incorrect. >> correct. money is making the difference in florida. the first state where money really mattered because getting on the airwaves in a large state is important. you pointed to the national polls. they have tightened a little bit over the last week. they seem to be a lagging

romney loses in the state of florida to the current president as does gingrich, santorum and paul. we also see romney's unfavorable rating with independents at 42%. rationalize those numbers for me. >> what's going to happen is this long thing called the campaign. there's going to be a lot of debate and discussion about how barack obama's economic policies have utterly failed the people of florida. how the hostility to business, how the hostility to small and large business in the obama administration has caused florida ease economic growth to be anemic at best. the state has stagnated that this is a president whose policy is spend as much as you can as fast as you can and hope something will happen. >> with the litany of things you just named, with all of those things in a head to head matchup, romney still loses to president obama in florida. i know there's time and there's still a general election. today as it stands with all of things you've just outlined, why would romney lose today in florida to president obama. >> the election's not today. >> i know that. >> the election is

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hard to see where gingrich and santorum find a big pocket of support. i mean, at the moment rick santorum is campaigning in missouri for a primary that doesn't award any delegates. it was only a beauty contest. so romney is sort of prepared to lead florida and go on the streak of wins in february that won't be as dramatic as the streak that president obama went on in february of 2008 when he beat hillary -- when he sort of established his firm lead over hillary clinton but it could be as defining of the race as obama's lead over clinton was back then. host: well, reid wilson from the hotline. i want to point out two stories. one from "the washington post," the g.o.p. presidential race could grind on and on. guest: talk to us a little bit about a broker convention and how likely you see that at this point? guest: well, i don't think a broker convention is likely. the eventually nominee has to get 1,144 delegates. that's 50% plus one of the delegates that are available this year. romney -- whoever it's going to be -- likely romney -- is going -- got to ro

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from a case of pneumonia her condition has improved enough that she is already out of intensive care santorum will visit cairo today >>color rana todayado today.. newt gingrich is facing a lawsuit for using a popular song on the campaign trail by of the tiger by the '80s group survivor one of that group's founding members frankie sullivan says that it gingrich's breaking copyright law he claims that he does not have permission to play i of the tiger at any click political events his music publishing company of palantine illinois is now suing for damages when asked if newt gingrich could continue to use the song if he got permission sullivan had no comment >>president obama held the first-ever virtual town hall meeting from the white house yesterday. the 45 minute forum streamed on gogol plus the white house you tube channel and on the whitehouse.gov web site president answered a range of questions from people who submitted through you tube including in evanston woman who wanted to know how to talk to children about economic hardships >>i would remind this generation that previous generations