after the colorado and minnesota caucuses this week, dave weigel our previous guest.ll win in minnesota and do far better in colorado than yesterday's polls indicate. this was after the minnesota results. this is what we all think the results were from minnesota and colorado. but according to the ron paul campaign, after those states closed, they think they might win in minnesota. in colorado and in nevada, "we will have good numbers among the actual delegates awarded far exceeding our straw poll numbers" campaign says "in machine machine where we finished a solid second it's true ron paul beat mitt romney, the campaign says in minnesota where we have finish a solid second we have a strong majority of the state convention delegates. the ron paul campaign is well organized to win the bulk of delegates there. they are saying they will win in minnesota even though they came in second there. ron paul campaign is saying even though they came in second they could win. again, we may well win in minnesota. and do far better in colorado than yesterday's polls indicate. i want

joining us is dave weigel political reporter for slate.com. and an msnbc political contributor. >> i'm severely happy to be here. >> severe. >> severely painfully happy. >> mr. romney said the word conservative, i think 26 times today. in that one speech, is he covering any of the distance toward silencing his critics? >> not really. the way i heard one very astute person describe it, i wish i could remember the name right now, if you look at santorum and romney, imagine them if they weren't running for president, would romney be talking like this if he wasn't running for president? the sense is no. would santorum talk the way santorum talks if he wasn't running for president? he was once a has been and he was talking like this. romney will never convince conservative voters he believes in his bones what they believe. he will convince them that he has a biography they approve of, a businessman that hates the government and he can win. the first part of that i think he's doing well on. the second part, at this moment especially in a place like

as dave weigel wrote at slate.com, getting the endorsement of a republican governor has been a curse for mitt romney. every time he gets endorsed by a state's republican governor or the most recent republican governor of that state he loses. but tomorrow there is a chance for that curse to be broken. tomorrow republicans in michigan and arizona will get their chance to vote in the republican primary and in both those states and in both those state he has again gotten the endorse mens of the state's republican governors. michigan's governor rick snyder endorsed him earlier. in michigan he has erased rick santorum's lead. the republican governor of arizona, jan brewer, she withheld endorsement until the very, very last minute, governor brewer waiting until yesterday, two days before the primary, to announce she, too, is endorsing mr. romney. government brewer's last minute endorsement i hope you won't mind me noting is not exactly a profile in courage given so much the state has voted it looks like mitt romney is going to run away with the state of arizona. so governor brewer waited lo

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