joining us now is jeff berman, the aforementioned, he's the author of the new book "the magic number" about the fight in which i think he reveals all his wizard-like tricks. jeff, thank you for being with us here tonight. >> hi, ezra, very good to be with you. >> this santorum campaign just hired a delegate director. at this point in '08 you had your job for a year. have they lost too much time? >> definitely it's a late time to be hiring a delegate director, but never too late so the question now is can they move fast enough and smart enough to make up for a lot of the lost ground. >> the odd thing about winning delegates, you bring it up in the book a little bit even once you win them or think you win them they're not necessarily yours, they can change their minds. that happened late in the '08 race, clinton was pursuing it after the mathematical path was impossible the hope was something would seem obama unelectable and delegates could leave them. can there be a late term switch in delegates if they see mitt romney as not enough strong enough candidate or something comes out about

i am joined by jeff berman. great to see you. good morning. >> good morning, chris. how are you?t. all of those delegates. this is red meat for political junkies like me. supertuesday. must win states. tell me who has to win what. >> in 2007 and 2008 we looked at super tuesday, also. there is really only one standard for super tuesday and that's winning the most states and the most delegates. this is the largest voting day of the year, the closest we come to a national election during the primaries. and so this is a very important voting day. of course, there are ten states voting. three of them governor romney has an advantage on that would be massachusetts, his home state, virginia where the major candidates are not on the ballot except for ron paul and, of course, vermont which neighbors massachusetts. what you have is the contest is going to focus on the other seven states and that's four major primaries including all important ohio plus you have the three caucus states. those will test the candidates organization and the grass roots support. >> santorum leading in ohio and t

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