i believe paul vercammen is standing by. we've been waiting to get more results. out. >> here's what i have told. romney won with 13-11. santorum was in second with 958. then paul with 621 and newt gingrich with 359. romney 1311 winning denver county. that's not reflected on the map behind me as you know. that's that squiggly little county. but as you pointed out they're waiting for the urban denver area counties to come in. that's the first. looks like romney got a win there. >> can i have the santorum win one more time? >> absolutely. 958. 1,311 to 958. >> so you're looking there, not quite 400 votes. so if you add roughly make up the math, i'm going to round it up, give it to 28 -- excuse my scribble, somewhere in the ballpark. governor romney is coming up. that's up. that's why it's so important, if he's making up somewhere in the ballpark of 300 or 400 votes here in this area, making up in denver county, then he would have to do something similar in jefferson county. he would have to do that in boulder county. if he can stretch the leads out in places like he

let's go to paul vercammen over at gop headquarters in colorado. we're anxiously awaiting the final results in colorado. what are you hearing? >> well, you can look to my left right here, and see the party chair of the gop here in colorado and he says he has 99% of the precincts in. and he's now talking on the phone, obviously to election officials. and he's going to grab the firmfir numbers. this is ryan call, the gop chairman here in colorado. let's see what he has to say. >> sorry, hold on a second. >> can you characterize for us, i believe you have 99% of the -- >> we have 98% of the precincts reporting tonight. rick santorum has won colorado's republican poll with about 40% of the vote. we're getting the final numbers in just now. rick santorum has exceeded expectations and wins colorado's caucus called vote tonight. >> any major population centers out? >> it's about 98% of the results in. there's a handful to be reported around arapahoe and half a dozen or so up in larimer county. these won't change the outcome of tonight's results. we'll hav

. >>> i'm paul vercammen here in carson city.e are four of the precincts. 24 in all in carson city. this county does lean republican. it's like their super bowl their game. in the end they've got to get behind one republican candidate and beat barack obama in nevada. i'm paul vercammen reporting from carson city. >>> heading into the nevada caucuses, mitt romney had a 20 point lead in the most recent poll. rick santorum and ron paul were lagging further behind. romney hasn't had a huge advantage around the country. gingrich was the leader in national polls two weeks ago after winning the south carolina primary. the race tightened after that. and gingrich and romney were running neck and neck. but romney jumped back in the lead boosted by his primary victory in the state of florida. will kane if you look at the state of florida mitt romney lost who said they were strong tea partiers. you look at the entrance polls in nevada and it seems different. >> mitt romney is the establishment candidate. but after looking at the numbers in n