>>darya: we have a live shot coming to us from ohio. to sharpen high school. they are returning to class, four days after a school you can see the students, teachers, parents and the community are rallying together. >>will: 6 faculty members are in trouble for what they did not do. according to their policy, if they get any idea of what is going on, it is their responsibility to report it personally to a child protective services. perhaps they did not do that. this is the woman in the middle of that controversy. she is accused of withholding food from one student and perhaps twisted the arm of another. she has not entered a plea yet. we will find out at 9:00 a.m.. i can tell you that the six who are in trouble have been faced on disciplinary action and administrative leave. altogether, there were eight placed on administrative leave but according to the investigation they only found the six were guilty of something are not going into details. >>mark: we will check back with you for updates. >>justine: harrisburg, ill. it was hit hardest

ohio. super tuesday was filled with a lot of drama. tory dunnan joins us from columbus, ohio.hat happens next. >> reporter: you're exactly right. that's the big question. what are the game plans for the candidates? it depends upon who you're asking. mitt romney points to the scoreboard to show he was yesterday's big winner. he definitely has a point, six viblght rise, including a nail biter in ohio and a widening lead over gop rivals. >> tonight we're counting up delegates for the convention it looks good and we're counting down the days to november. >> reporter: romney still faces roadblocks ahead. he has yet to win over the conservative vote. there's a fierce challenger nipping at his heels. rick santorum showed he's a viable forks pick up wins in north dakota, oklahoma, tennessee and a very close second in ohio. >> we'll get at least a couple of gold medals and a whole lot of silver medals. >> reporter: but his biggest challenge may come from-- from within. this has left him scrambling to get on the ballots in different states. >> this is amazing. >> reporter: then there's

dave owens will join us live from ohio. >> plus alex ovechkin gets shaken up during practice, the latest on his condition next in sports. >>> now 9 sports with kristen berset, the best sports in town. >> the georgetown hoyas looking to end their streak of early exits in the ncaa tournament. they haven't got past the second round since 2007 when they made it to the final four. they tip off at 3:10 friday in columbus, ohio. dave owens joins us now live from nationwide a reason withate a closer look at what the -- arena with a closer look at what the hoyas can expect of. >> reporter: a quick history lesson will tell us georgetown shunt rest easy coming into this game. three seeds have within upset in the first round of the ncaa tournament 16 times. georgetown hopes to avoid that fate, of course, but tell you. what news flash, the team they may tomorrow, belmont, they can ball. they scored a fourth most points in the country and arrive riding a 14 game winning streak, 27 wins, atlantic sun championship, translated, hey, georgetown, don't sleep on these bruins. >> they're a winning team. from

. >> ken blackwell is joining us from cincinnati, ohio, he's the platform committee vice chairman of the republican national committee g. morning and thank you for joining us. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> so as we look at the race for the republican presidential nomination, two candidates are rising to the surface in the polls, mitt romney and rick santorum. which one of them has a better shot when it comes to really appealing to the conservative vote? rick santorum says it's him. mitt romney says in the end republicans will support him. how does conservatism play into this race? >> well, i think conservatives want limited government, want economic growth and job creation. and so this comes down to a debate about the size of government, its intrusion and i think the candidate that can best articulate not only a platform but a vision to getting back to constitutional governance is going to be the one that picks up the lion's share of the conservative vote out there. and this is a horse race. people talk about momentum, they talk about delegate count. but at the end of the d

. >> steve handelsman joins us from columbus, ohio. conventional wisdom says if romney wins ohio he wins the nomination. where do we stand right now? >> reporter: well, we stand where we don't know. as the votes are counted on this super tuesday night and nbc news makes its various projections, ohio does remain the focus. romney and santorum. nbc news projects ohio is too close to call. mitt romney cast his ballot late this afternoon in massachusetts. and tonight notched his first super tuesday victory. nbc news projecting romney wins virginia. and projecting that newt gingrich wins his home state of georgia. but as voters cast their ballots on this super tuesday, in eleven states, ohio was the most watched. in this swing state, many republicans were un-enthusiastic. and many were split. >> i voted for mitt romney. >> mitt romney because of his business experience. >> people aren't feeling there's a strong person at all. but i think santorum could pull it out. >> reporter: can he beat mitt romney in ohio? the pressure is on rick santor

tory dunnan joins us live from columbus, ohio. i know mitt romney picked up some big endorsements over the weekend. where does the race stand? tory? >> reporter: mitt romney is coming off of four victories from last week. the latest polls are shifting in his favor. let's start at the national level. romney is leading santorum 38% to 32% among likely republican voters. go in debt and closer and talk about some of the key states voting tomorrow like here in ohio. this is a brand-new poll it. show last close race a dead heat between romney and santorum. just last week santorum had the lead here. a statistical tie between romney and santorum. it was last month that santorum was up by seven points. we're sort of seeing a similar situation as we shaw in michigan and florida, one where mitt romney seems to come back in the last minute. in those states this was one state voting or two states voting but when we talk about super tuesday, there are 10 states voting. >> i know a lot of people will be watching. we'll see you tomorrow. jamie co

the former pennsylvania senator is back in ohio tonight awaiting the returns in this all-important super tuesday. joining us live from malbourne, ohio, located in the eastern part of the state, alicia sansvens following all of this for "the washington post." thanks for being with us. at washingtonpost.com this headline, tonight's results could reshape the gop race. let's go through a number of scenarios. first of all, what does newt gingrich need to do? and what would be a surprise for the former house speaker tonight? >> well, steve, newt gingrich really the only thing that is on his place right now is the fate of georgia. of course his home state. it's a state where he needs to win and he needs to win big if he's going to stay in the race. right now it looks like he's on track to do that. so it could be a good night for him there. the question is, of course, it all comes down to delegates and while georgia is the biggest state on the roster tonight, even if gingrich does well there, he's still going to have to make up a lot in terms of the other states that are going. many of those are states where mitt romney is f

he will join us from columbus, ohio at 6:00 with the highlights. >> looking forward to that. >> are youhe game. >> no. >> you don't have your bracket filled out. >> i'm not a big basketball fan. i will watch the final four but other than that -- sorry. >> i may have to run down to nats stadium. whiz will come with me. >> tough pay for it. >> that is a game changer. >> it's a fundraiser, guys, prostate cancer. >> you got me? dinner for two and a massage. >> i carry no money. >> i feel a little sunshine trying to poke through. i don't think the weekend is going to be quite like today but it does look like the weekend we will have more clouds. we are going to have limited sunshine. let me show you the showers. this is radar. a few coming through the southern sections of the district. a little down to alexandria, probably arlington now and then out this basic line with showers down to the south and east across the bay and eastern shore there. this is slowly moving to the south and off to the southeast. we are not really seeing anything else to the north and northwest. a couple of showers fa

ohio. tracie potts joins us from columbus, ohio, for a look at the numbers. >> reporter: good morning, everyone what we know after super tuesday. has surged ahead in terms of delegates. he was able to pull out this very tight race, winning by only about one percentage point in ohio. but still can't seal the deal when it comes to this nomination. we've still got a long way to go. that's because in addition to six states including wyoming they have partial caucus. in addition to those that romney won, rick santorum came in a very strong second here in a state that's not winner take all, which means he'll get ohio delegates. plus santorum won tennessee, north dakota, oklahoma. newt gingrich won his home state of georgia but nothing beyond that. and so the question remains this morning, how much longer can he stay in this race. he says he's staying in even though some santorum supporters are saying he should get out at this point. and then finally ron paul, who put all his eggs in one basket, he wanted to win those caucus states -- alaska, idaho, north dakota -- he didn't win any of them. how much

states, like ohio, even tennessee, but it is the delegates they tally up that put them on the course to earn that nomination. thank you, peter, appreciate it. nbc's ron mott is with us from stubenville, ohio. how is romney feeling in terms of confidence, expectations for tonight? >> i think they are cautiously optimistic about their chances here in ohio today, but it is going to be a wait and see approach here because it's close. the polls are pretty much neck in neck. what rick santorum is counting on here is to get the vote out, especially among those conservative evangelicals, a bigger percentage of those voters here in ohio than we saw in michigan last week which mitt romney won. so it is going to depend on which of these two candidates were able to energize their base support enough to get them out to the polls, have to wait and seem the polls close here at 7:30 eastern. >> one of the challenges for the santorum campaign has been organization. chuck was just talking about this. right where you are in stubenville, ohio, mr. santorum can't win delegates from that area, as far as i understand it no matter how much of the vote he gets there and that's simply because he

joining us now from washington congressman dennis kucinich from ohio. look, congressman, here is my problem. lots of folks and you know. this you are a man of the people. getting hurt. they don't have the extra cash to put in their gas tank right now. so how do you react to secretary chu? >> well, i think we have to look at the options that are here. we can release oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. we can get the financial commodities trading commission to go after the speculators who are adding 15 to 30% on the price of a barrel of oil. you know, there is speculation going on here that is hurting the american people. it's not that we have a limited number of options here. >> bill: president obama is not doing anything. all he does is give a speech saying it's a complicated situation whereby i yell we know that. that's why we elected you. and the strategic oil reserves isn't necessary because there is plenty of oil in the u.s.a. as you know. because we have had a warm winter. >> not only -- >> bill: plenty of stockpile of oil here the worldwide

thanks to abc's karen travers reporting live for us from columbus, ohio.urse stay with abc news for analysis and reaction to the super tuesday vote. we'll take you back live to ohio again on "america this morning." and our entire political team will be here on "good morning america" later today. don't miss that. >>> and the other big headline this morning, a breakthrough in the standoff with iran over its nuclear program. iran has invited nuclear inspectors to visit the secret military research complex where the west fears they are developing nuclear weapons. at the same time, though, western nations have agreed to talk with iran about ways to defuse the crisis. and president obama has been arguing against a rush to military action against iran and for more time to allow economic sanctions, which you mentioned earlier, to actually work. >> he laid downtown the gauntlet. said the republican candidates are beating this drum to war. he said if they're going lay out a plan to war then explain to the country the cost and benefits of that including the economy,

brad joining us from ohio. will you be voting on tuesday? caller: i will be voting. have a question. what is your opinion regarding the question you want answered -- what is your opinion on reservation indians? ont: we're not focusing indians. we're focusing on the u.s. senate. caller: i know, but it would make it easier to give you my answer. host: the great part about this program is we want to hear from you. my opinion doesn't really matter. we want to hear from you. caller: to understand the reservation indians and how the senate deals with them through the governor of arizona and senator john mccain, it kind of goes hand-in-hand. host: ok, we will go on to a the other caller from a super tuesday states. caller: well, as far as i am concerned, she does not have any gravitas speaking about that. the government should submit to the will of the governing. she is one of those probes are kidding phony progresses. she has been -- our income for years. host: thank you for the call. "how the public could save the senate " e." next is michael from arlington, texas. good m

. >> gretchen: 2012 presidential candidate rick santorum joins us live on the road from dayton, ohio.uess ohio is one of the most important of the big states tomorrow. i think because you're arguing it's nobody's home state and also because it's a closed primary, right? it's only republicans who can come to the poll. how important is that for you? >> well, i'm very encouraged by what's going on here in ohio. we've been working very, very hard here. we've got a great message, talks about growing the manufacturing base of our economy, talks about creating opportunities for people to rise. we're putting our energy program out here, which is key. we're drawing the contrast on the very important issue of obamacare and now with the revelations that governor romney not only put it in place in massachusetts, but advocated for it for president obama to use his model of an individual mandate at the federal level, again, we're looking for the best candidate that can take on barak obama and right now, we believe that on the issues, we're it. >> steve: senator, there is a poll out that says the ra

cnn's martin savidge is joins us from chardon, ohio. heard from t.j. lane. what did he say? >> reporter: well, this was the initial hearing, essentially what would have happened is he would have had the reading of the charges. the defense said that's not necessary, the judge launched into explaining the nature of the charges and potential consequences. that set up a very interesting sort of q&a between the judge and t.j. lane. listen to this. >> you have a right to receive a copy of the complaint, and as acknowledged by the attorney, you are aware of the six charges brought against you? >> yes, i am. >> you have a right to have a trial on those charges. at that trial you have a right to require that the state of ohio prove each element of each charge at trial beyond a reasonable doubt if the state can do so. you understand? >> yes, i do, your honor. >> you can't help but notice how small this young man is, how quiet he is, and how in stark contrast that is to the horrible nature of the crimes of which he has been charged. >> have we hea

give us the latest from ohio. look at this right here.ick santorum and mitt romney are locked in a tight fight. a lot of people think that mitt romney needs to do well if not win to show he can appeal to the voters. let's go down south to tennessee, another state where rick santorum and mitt romney are in a tight fight. this is a couple hours north of where we sit. he has a double-digit lead. >> you have to win your home state. that's a bad showing if you don't. >> i have to do well in order for my campaign to do well. >> he put the pressure on himself. tell us whether the candidates and how they are spending their time. sometimes we can read into the strategy by how they are spending their time. >> let's start with tonight. this is something i found out a& we will let them out for the audience. we knew they were off the campaign trail and did all the sunday shows including cnn. we know because of a tweet from his wife that they were in virginia to have a birthday dinner. newt gingrich is not on the trail, but having a birthday dinner. co

dan hellie joins us live from columbus, ohio >>> a former rutgers university student who used a web cam to spy on his gay room platte could spend ten years behind bars. a jury found him guilty today of a hate crime and invasion of privacy. his roommate tyler clemente committed suicide after the incident. jay gray has our report. >>> we find the defendant guilty or not guilty as to tc? >> guilty. >> darren ravi looked down at times but did not seem to react until he slowly shook his head after the verdict was announced. the former rutgers student guilty on all 15 counts including invasion of privacy and bias intimidation after using a web cam in his dorm room to spy on his roommate's liaison with another man. >> the facts and the law and the evidence showed that tyler was targeted because of his sexuality. >> reporter: the case sparked national attention and outrage after the victim 18-year-old tyler clemente jumped from the george washington bridge just days after learning ravi had captured video of him during an intimate encounter with a date then talked about it online and shared the

ohio. >> joining us from washington, d.c. is peter. >> good morning anna. as you know ohio's super tuesday contest spilled into wednesday and the voters there who are looking to hire a nominee for first the private sector experience on a candidate's resume. almost two-thirds, 65 percent think a business background better prepares a president than government background with the other only 27 percent. ohio voters's top issue was the economy. 41 percent broke for romney way ahead of santorum's 33 percent. big picture in the buckeye state romney's strength. runner up santorum was strong in ohio with a very conservative married women, low income voters and tea party supporters. the independent vote can be critical. in the close contest the runner up santorum actually edged out the winner for independent support. san tore raup 37 percent romney 31 but he still won the state. 6 states overall. santorum won three and gingrich won one. georgia is the only place gingrich run first. governor romney won every other state we have exit polls from with voters says beating

at conversation lamar is joining us from ohio, democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for c-span. i have been wondering, every time there is an important piece of legislation that comes about or is up for debate, the question always is asked, what would you think the founding fathers' intent was? i don't understand that. maybe you can answer this question, the founding fathers, they were for slavery, right? seoul why does it always, about what the founding fathers would have to do with it? i don't understand. host: you are correct that slavery was not addressed in the constitution. as justice roberts indicated in an interview that we did with him, one of the worst loss in the constitution, but it is the framework of our government, and so it is essentially the laws that we abide by and something the court takes into account. our question, as you have this intersection, you have a law passed by congress, signed by the president, and now being questioned by the u.s. supreme court, and the issue of states' rights has,. and you have expressed your point of view when

. >> host: william joins us from ohio, independent caller. >> caller: yes. morning. you know, i think that what happened in 9/11 has affected our economy in every aspect of our living in america, and think that it's been ignored by a lot of leaders in our country just how much of an impact it had on our economical structure here, and i guess what i would like for you to comment about is, from an economical aspect, why would we pull out from afghanistan, knowing that afghanistan is the foundation of our economical disaster. >> guest: well, you make a good point. and that is 9/11 did a lot of damage to our economy. on lots of different levels. the most obvious is we have been forced to spend a lot 0 more of our resources, our tax dollars, businesses have spent resources on security, on defense. and rough ordered of magnitude, iraq and afghanistan on average since 9/11 cost us $100 billion a year. so do the arithmetic, over a trillion dollars. that's a lot of money and that been very painful, and that's resources we could have used for educating our population, for buil

. >> ken blackwell is joining us from ohio. the is the vice chairman of the republican committee. in the polls, mitt romney and rick santorum. which one has a better shot when it comes to appealing to the conservative vote? mitt romney says in the end republicans will support him. how does conservatism play into this? >> conservatives want limited government, economic growth, and job creation, so this comes down to a debate about the size of the government, and i think the candidate that can best articulate a vision to getting back to constitutional ance is going to be the one it gets close eye on share of republican hopes on air. this is of horse race. people talk about momentum, but the end of the day it is who can hit 1144 delegates as this campaign moves, so it is a horse race right now. illinois is going to be a major road prize for a candidate, although its proportional allocation is based on the district within the state. >> he is a family empowerment senior fellow. here is the number to copyright go -- the number to call. a story recently says more want newt gingritch to st

this morning we have a live report from chardon, kristin byrne joins us a reporter from our scripps station outside of cleveland, ohioristin, good morning. reporter: good morning. yes, it's expected to be a very emotional day understandably for students as they make their first day back to school, their return. it's going to be their first full day since the shooting happened on monday, killing, as you mentioned, three students here at chardon high, wounding two others. yesterday, though, they were able to march to school, sort of an easier transition for them with their parents, but today they will be going back to school alone. it's been a very tough week for them. the community, though, has stood by them the entire time, even yesterday when the kids were marching to school, they were clapping and cheering for them, showing their support. there's red ribbons everywhere, there's been vigils, a lot of prayers really from all over the country. this has not just hit chardon, this has hit this entire world. of course a very tough day. but there is going to be extra police presence around the school today to kind of make

>>> this comes to from us channel 3 in cleveland, ohio. a community in need of healing three days after a horrific school shooting found some on a basketball court. chardon high school's first game since the shooting what some called a therapeutic attraction was a playoff game last night. before the game both teams wear arm and arm and the opposing team wearing chardon black t-shirts. people who felt they had to be there rooted on chardon to an extra sweet victory. i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. consumers today have a legitimate concern about the chicken they eat. they want to know more about how they were raised, what they were fed. we spend a lot of time on the feed because a chicken is what it eats. [ jim ] this seal verifies we feed my fresh all-natural chickens an all-vegetarian diet including corn, soybeans, and marigolds. we actually ask the usda to come check us. we have never fed steroids or hormones and never will. no blood meal, no meat and bone meal. yuck. n

>>> this comes to from us channel 3 in cleveland, ohio. a community in need of healing three days after a horrific school shooting found some on a basketball court. chardon high school's first game since the shooting what some called a therapeutic attraction was a playoff game last night. before the game both teams wear arm and arm and the opposing team wearing chardon black t-shirts. people who felt they had to be there rooted on chardon to an extra sweet victory. i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. it is friday morning. we have clear skies. 35 degrees on tv hill. 4:56. the temperature at the airport is 35 degrees. the barometer has come down a little bit overnight. the win is calm -- the wind is calm. we had a pretty nice day yesterday with lots of sunshine. the other end of the day it will be a little different. so will saturday. a new storm is on the way. >> 4:57. 35 degrees on tv hill. >> mar

. >>> this comes to from us channel 3 in cleveland, ohio. community in need of healing three days after a horrific school shooting found some on a basketball court. chardon high school's first game since the shooting what some called a therapeutic distraction was a playoff game last night. before the game both teams were arm in arm, and the opposing team wearing chardon black t-shirts. people who felt they had to be there rooted on chardon to an extra sweet victory. i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> long day at the office? well, how about a cup of tea and a kitten? the cat's meow for those on tokyo for those caught up on stressing working lives. felines help relieve stress from people. patrons pay about $12 to pay with any of the cats. the cup of tea is actually optional. >>>> one lion in china very busy in mating season. after mating separately with a lion and a tiger, the lioness gave birth to two mixed lion tiger cubs known as tigins. unfortunately, one didn't su

now, as somebody who knows the state of ohio inside and out, former governor ted strict land who comes to us from boston tonight. governor, it is great to see you inside the war room even though you are from boston. i know you have your finger on the pulse of what's going on ohio. well. >> i was in ohio over the weekend, and that's where the action is right now. brutal, brutal ads are being played by both candidates and i think it's difficult to know for sure what's going to happen tomorrow. >> you know, i think, you know, as you and i have talked over the years, actually, you know when ted was first elected, i had the privilege of being his mentor as governors, they have, you know, older governors are assigned to newer governors. so i had the privilege of being his mentor but i learned an awful lot from my pupil because he was such a tremendous governor of ohio and focused on a lot of the same issues we did in michigan. so in michigan we saw what had was the early voting ended up benefitting romney. what's the situation with early voting in ohio? >> romney is benefitting but i think it's a toss-

from coast-to-coast today. the stakes are high in ohio where the race between santorum and romney has been incredibly close. tracie potts join us from columbus. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. columbus is key. this is where they will eventually certify tonight's primaries from the results of ohio. ohio is a very important state because no republican has ever been elected without winning this state. so today's primary is a key proving ground for november. ♪ >> reporter: both top candidates mitt romney and rick santorum, spent their last full day of campaigning in ohio. >> we have been all over the state from a to z, all right? akron to zanesville. >> i just don't think the republicans have a viable candidate. >> reporter: romney insists he is winning last-minute voters here. >> i keep hearing people tell me they were undecided and now they have decided to join with us. >> reporter: it's gut-check time! who wants it the most? what do you say? >> reporter: rick santorum has a two-point edge in ohio, a virtual tie. last night, he focuses on romney's flip-flop on contraception coverage. >> he will be the weakest candidate we co

us. it extends from northern ohio back into indiana. all of this is severe.ere's a frontal system out here. colder and dryer air behind and picking up moisture ahead of it. so that's the real dynamic area of showers and thunderstorms and eventually, that will come on through overnight tonight, early tomorrow morning, but we do not think it's going to be this strong. as a matter of fact, we'll end up with rain out of this and more rain in the deep south coming out of alabama into georgia. and this is where the real heavy rain is. the real heavy stuff. again, this stays to the south of us. we don't need to worry about that at all. tomorrow morning, we are talking about clouds. spotty shower is possible. mostly cloudy at noon. 62. and afternoon tomorrow, it looks like the skies will brighten and will be in good shape. as we get into sunday, looking pretty good. clouds will be on the increase late sunday afternoon, but we'll stay dry for sunday. high temperature close to 70 degrees. on monday morning, we'll have a few showers there and with sunshine in the aftern

area, hamilton county, board of elections, and this is a central part of ohio where john boehner is from, and set the scene for usre, dana where the polls have just closed. >> that is right, southwest ohio is crucial, and this particular county, hamilton county is one to watch, because it is not only a swing county, but a swing county in a swing state, and one of the most important counties to watch in the general election, but also for the republican primary. we want the show you and the viewers what we will show you later as they get the ball lots coming in in about 45 minutes, but this is a room where they are going to be counting the ballots, and they are going to be feeding some of it will be electronic, if you can look in here, there is a card reader, where they will get information in there and zip it in and go to the computer, and later, wolf, we will take you back to the director of the board of elections, and we are going to try to get the realtime vote results, as they are getting it here, wolf. >> dana, that is interesting, because it is going to be a close race, and it will be anxious to get the info

ohio. nbc's tracie potts joins us from the state capital, columbus. good morning to you. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. take ago look at the numbers you just showed us, it's pretty clear that mitt romney is beginning to solidify his lead among his republican challengers. he has now got three times as many delegates it appears as his closest competitor and, like he did a week ago in michigan, he has proven he can win a tight race. it appears mitt romney eked out a very narrow victory over rick santorum in ohio, as little as one percentage point. >> i'm not going to let you down. i'm going to get this nom yain n nomination. >> reporter: romney realizes it's about delegates and it's names game and he schwinning. >> we are counting your the delegates for the election a that is good and counting down the days until november and that looks each better. >> reporter: romney won massachusetts, virginia, idaho, and four delegates in wyoming. santorum scored victims in tennessee, oklahoma and north dakota. >> we have won in the west, the midwest, and the south

host: ken blackwell is joining us from cincinnati, ohio. the platform committee vice chairman of the republican national committee. good morning and thank you for joining us. guest: good morning. good to be with you. host: as we look for the race for the republican presidential nomination, two candidates are rising in the polls, mitt romney and rick santorum. which one of them has a better shot when it comes to really appealing to the conservative vote? mitt romney says, in the end, republicans will support him. how does conservatism play into this race? guest: conservatives want economic growth and job creation. this comes down to a debate about the size of government, its intrusion, and i think the candidate who can best articulate not only platform but a vision to getting back to constitutional governments, is going to be the one that picks up the lion's share of the conservative vote out there. this is a horse race. people talk about momentum. they talk about a delicate -- about a delegate count. at the end of the day, it's about who can

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ohio. nbc's tracie potts joins us from the state capital, columbus.racie, good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. taking a look at those numbers you just showed us, it's pretty clear that mitt romney is beginning to solidify his lead among his republican challengers. he's now got three times as many delegates as his closest competitor. he's proven he can win a tight race. >> we need mitt! >> reporter: it appears mitt romney ekes out a narrow victory over rick santorum in ohio, as little as one percentage point. >> i'm not going to let you down. i'm going to get this nomination. >> reporter: romney realizes it's all about delegates, and he's now got more than 300. it's a numbers game, and he's winning. >> tonight we're doing some counting. we're counting up the delegates for the convention. it looks good. we're counting down the days until november. that looks even better. >> reporter: romney also won his home state, massachusetts, vermont, virginia, idaho, alaska, and four delegates in wyoming. santorum scored victories in tennessee, oklahoma,

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