for more on tonight's illinois primary, i'm joined by david shuster. problem with paper ballots and the machines, we've reached the apex where both things can go wrong? do we know how much which a delay this might mean? >> election officials in illinois say it affects as many as 24 different counties, almost a quarter of the state. the largest county being dupage county, which is west of chicago, including naperville, wheaton, downer's grove. there may be as many as 300 ballots from a couple of different locations were affected. they do not believe it will delay things too much. election officials will have to count the ballots because they can't go through the machines. results from some precincts may take a little longer, but the polls have not been kept open any longer. they do expect to have results before too long. >> the only results we have now were exit polls cnn45 ore 35 romney over santorum. between that and his big lead in the pre-vote polls of yesterday and earlier where is the support coming from, chicago and the upscale suburbs? is there

but that is david shuster in chicago. th romney and santorum criss crossed illinois today as he mentioned. and while they amped up their attacks on each other, they also slammed president obama, and that's what david was just referring to. take a listen. >> the obama administration's assault on our economic freedom is the principal reason why the recovery has been so tepid. it couldn't meet their expectations. let alone ours. if we don't change course now, the assault on freedom could damage our economy and the well-being of american families for decades to come. >> we have pat who cease america very, very differently. we see a president who has decided the best thing we can do for people is not to give them opportunity and equality of opportunity and limited government and believing in them and strong communities and families, but the way we're going to solve the problems in america is to centralize power in a handful of people. >> well, very interesting that rommy acknowledged that there was a recovery underway. tepid th

david shuster, it seems to me there is particular piling on in the case of romney.r expected to do particularly well, and then there was another round of why -- >> a couple of things. look who his competition is. those guys are -- i mean, they -- anybody jeb bush, rich daniels would have flattened the earth on those two guys xshgs here's mitt romney, he is still struggling. i don't think it's the media that's saying, oh, that i a problem for mitt romney. the media is reflecting the public polling. it's not the other way around. the public polling has often said there is an enthusiasm gap for mitt romney, and there's a greater gap that they had than john mccain had. >> except that in the weeks when romney wins or wins big and wins a big state like florida, he still can't connect. he is a weak frontrunner. >> that's the danger. once a media nar ti is created that you are awkward or weird or bhaefr, it's very hard to break out of it, and i would say, though, mitt romney hasn't done a great job of changing the narrative. you mentioned florida. he did win well -- big in

we will talk about that more at current tv's david shuster -- david, thanks so much for joining us. now for prospective and context on tomorrow's big day for the republicans. with me here in the war room headquarters is christine pelosi. she is nancy's daughter but she is a smart, sassy woman, her book campaign boot camp 2.0. it's the great guide on how to mobilize supporters and win elections and from las vegas bill press joins me. bill is the author of the obama hate machine which looks at who is behind the smearing of our president. bill, glad to have you here, and congratulations on your new current tv show. >> thanks, governor. it's great to see you. i am so excited to join the current tv term. my job is just to warm them up for you every day, governor. >> bless your heart. be warm. will you? here, you can't see you are sitting next to christine pelosi. i appreciate having you here in the war room. there is a lot going on, on a day that all of us, you know, want to sort of prognosticate and figure out. let me start with christine. i know you were listening to david shuster's re

chances that we have a contested election david shuster? >> i'm going to say no.t won't be a contested convention, but it may be close. >> contestant yes or no michael shure? >> 26% chance contested. >> correct answer 31%. >> romney is winning in places where in the fall democrats are win. and santorum is winning in places in down state illinois where republicans are going to do well. that does mean that the appeal that mitt romney has is not to the classic american voter. >> seriously if you are talking about getting your voters excited to win in the places that you normally win you got to say, hey, you know what maybe that's santorum. but mitt romney won tonight. >> mitt romney won cook county. he is not going to win it in november. >> no question about that. let's go to romney's victory speech here. i actually thought he did really well tonight. so let's go to a-7 here. [ applause ] >> now you know that the real cost of these misguided policies, these attacks on economic freedom, this intrusion of the government into our freedom, the cost of that are the ideas

david shuster from current tv coming up right after the bottom of the hour.the? >> stephanie: bill o'reilly on the health insurance mandate. >> it is a man and date. it is police powers from the federal government and it is going to be 5-4. if i'm wrong, i'll come on and i'll apologize for being an idiot. >> stephanie: preemptively -- >> you are an idiot! >> stephanie: has the supreme court canceled the hearings yet because bill o'reilly has ruled. >> saying that every day of his professional life. i am a little nervous about it. >> he just did it live. the supreme court doesn't need to hear it. he wrote it and he just wrote the opinion. >> we'll do it live! it sucks. >> if they determine the individual mandate is unconstitutional, would that be a way of getting single payer? >> woo woo woo woo. >> we should have started negotiating from single payer? >> stephanie: don't you like the right wing fear mongers? >> steve ducey. >> to his credit, however paul ryan during this political season, the only one -- and the republicans who are talking about trying to fix

david shuster in the key battleground state, in many views, this is the whole ball of wax as least for super tuesday. anything new, david. obviously it hasn't been cowed yet, but the polls are closed. >> the only thing new is the romney campaign is always spinning that this evening is all about math and they believe ohio wilbury rick santorum even if it's not the argument about momentum, but purely about the delegate counts and the reasons you mentioned earlier, rick santorum having problems, 18 delegates that he will not get. he's been taking those off the tail. romney would not be entitled to those, but the romney campaign is very confident that they're going to win ohio. they like the exit polling information that has come out so far, they like the demographics, the turnout, the break down of catholic voters, the fact that more catholic voters preferred mitt romney than rick santorum and they even liked the fact that in terms of empathy, the empathy question that mitt romney did exceedingly high in terms of who best understands your typical american economic problem. rick santorum w

for the latest on the grown, we're going to turn to david shuster. david is in chicago.avid, can you hear me? >> yeah, governor grandholm good evening. >> what is the reaction in the war rooms tonight. >> the santorum expect to do very strongly south of interstate 80 with the exception of springfield. the romney campaign says that's fine if they want to talk about delegates now. they are losing. we have twice as many delegates as the rest of the field combined. expect to see governor romney out before too long with a speech saying this is another step forward, but again the santorum campaign says okay, let's see what happens next now in louisiana which is on saturday or in two weeks in washington, d.c., maryland and wisconsin, or five weeks in new york, pennsylvania, and delaware. everything the santorum campaign is saying is look this is just one state, our battle continues. >> we have heard this scenario before, and for our viewers we will go to romney or santorum's comments, so don't go anywhere but david there was a lot of talk about there being low turnout in chicag

we are going to go to david shuster who is on the ground. he is actually in ohio and he is in columbus. david, can you hear me? >> yes. governor, i can hear you fine. >> all right, david, this is our second hour of this campaign coverage of super tuesday. i know you are there in ohio on the ground and you are going to give us the pulse of what's happening in ohio. >> it's so interesting to hear you talk about the final news story that the candidates want to impress upon the voters. rick santorum is very much about manufacturing. he's gotten away from sort of the social debate and instead, he has been talking up and down the state about returning this par part of the midwest as the rust belt as he scribes it the steel belt suggesting he is the candidate that can revise the economy and have manufacturing. mitt romney, this was a day he went not so much at rick santorum and tried to may make the cases i can take on president obama and beat him on the following issue. there was some of the surrogates, and on friday, you mentioned the difficulty o

we're going to bring in david shuster. great to have you with us. tell us about voter turnout there in illinois. >> well, cenk, from all over the state, the voter turnout has been remarkably low, this is the sort of news that gives the romney campaign heartburn. it would tend to hurt romney a little bit more than santorum because of the enthusiasm gap. one of the reasons for the low turnout just might be the weather. it was 83 degrees here in the city of chicago today setting all sorts of records. there have been records up and down the state. you might have a reason where people simply haven't wanted to spend this day awaiting in hot stuffy election lines. some of the most remarkable moments in this illinois primary have not been so much with the ads, but the self-inflicted wounds the candidates have been putting on themselves. mitt romney in peoria at bradley university, wanted his speech to focus strictly on the economy. he opens it up to questions and a student asks about birth control. >> me i'd like free birth control. >> if you're looking --

now we are going to gao out to columnbus ohio where david shaft shuster, corerespondent for current tellevision joins us . david, great to vhave uhyou, and always happy to see you in the really cold climate rather than myself. >> hello from columnbus. >> so i am going to show you rick santorum over the weekend. he was on fox news sunday. still talking about contra contraexception, chris wallace asked him about it. he had what i thought was this terrible answer. watch. >> the conscious clause ex exception. there is ah conscious clause ex exemption prior to whenpom president obama decided he could i ammpose his values on people of faith and people of faith believe this seis ah griefvous moreal wrong. >> a griefvous moreal wrong david david? contraception, 9% of women use? how mental is this guy? has thawt stuff hurt him tlhere? and is he continueing down thawt path? >> well ricks, he's not continueing down thawt path as far as stump speeches. i suppose he can't get away from that as far as the weekend show s and when he is asked beabout it by antrorse but here in ohio the buckeye state seis going

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the latest on the ground, we're going to turn to david shuster in chicago. david, can you hear me? >> yeah, governor, good evening. >> you have been speaking with the folks in the romney and santorum campaign. what is their reaction in the war rooms tonight? >> the santorum campaign expected that they would lose the overall vote but think they can pick up 25-30 of the delegates based on the counties that they expect to win in southern illinois. they expect to do strongly south of interstate 80 with the exception of springfield. the romney campaign is not at it's finest, but the santorum campaign is losing. the romney campaign very confident, expect to see governor romney out before too long in shaumburg, illinois saying this is another step to beating barack obama and the republican party uniting around me. again, the santorum campaign says let's see what happens next in louisiana, which is in saturday or in two weeks and at washington d.c., or five weeks in pennsylvania, delaware. everything santorum is saying tonight, look, this is one state, our battle continues. >> we heard thi

four democrats joint against we bring in now david shuster. what is the politics? i understand why the president is doing this, getting ahead of it, so when they vote it away in congress, he'll say i tried i tried to fight this big oil. >> that's right. this is all about putting certain republicans on record for supporting the oil companies, and again, the democrats are, you know a lot of people say the democrats don't know how to play politics. this is evidence to the contrary, by have the president use the bully pulpit and remind everybody, the oil companies are reaping profits and by the way here are the republicans in congress that still want to hand them corporate welfare and same republicans who want to protect tax cuts for the wealthy and cult medicaid and medicare. that's what the democrats are trying to play and it's an effective strategy. >> it has to be and the president is running with popularity right now in terms of who is blaming who on gas prices. there was a cnn poll that showed oil companies are being blamed 55% to 24%. let's listen to senator ran