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    Voting underway in WI, MD, DC primaries

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Fox News is your election headquarters -- its primary day.

Voting underway right now in Wisconsin and Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Coming down to a two man race between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum on the Republican side Romney favored in all three contests but he's not taking any chances.

He's holding any Election Day event outside Milwaukee about an hour from now.

Santorum is moving on to his home state of Pennsylvania with -- which holds its primary in three weeks.

At least nine.

Putting him closer to the magic number of 11144.

Needed to clinch the nomination.

Let's take a look at the current tally.

Romney now at the halfway point with 572.

Rick Santorum in second with 272.

Newt Gingrich in third with a 135.

And Ron Paul trailing with 51.

Let's talk about it now with national review editor at large Jonah Goldberg he is also a Fox News contributor.

-- don't know what are you going to be watching for tonight.

Well I'm also here.

-- front lines of this campaign in Washington DC where the the atmosphere is electric.

Basket.

Rick Santorum isn't even on the -- -- Romney -- that they can vote for there in DC right.

It had all eight Republicans who live in -- district are gone for Romney.

It's it's.

It's an important night but it's the Wisconsin primary is important.

But not necessarily in ways that Rick Santorum wants it to me.

If he loses which it looks like he will.

It just it it solidifies.

This this narrative that he's sort of going nowhere and what's important really -- do is have this huge ground -- A rural voters in the northern potter Wisconsin.

To go to the polls to compensate for Romney's advantages in the more populated parts in the southern and it just doesn't look like it's gonna have two thirds of the voters in that state are the end basically -- the Milwaukee and Green Bay Area right.

That's right they're basically in those those those southern urban and suburban districts down there where Romney tends to do well.

You know one of the few demographic advantages is that Santorum tends to do much stronger in states.

With.

We are well among voters with not without college degrees in Wisconsin is a slightly higher number of those.

Then say Illinois or Ohio and in some of those other contests.

But it still it he is not according to reports people I know on the ground over there.

Say that he's not filling rooms in these rural districts where he really needs to generate excitement.

If you can't do that me very difficult from the compensate for around these advantages were running basically leading him where -- there's a major television market.

I'm Rick Santorum likes to paint Mitt Romney as sort of the Massachusetts moderate that's the term and he has.

Referred to him by time and time again.

But the conservative.

You know -- the Tea Party Newton.

Heroes in Wisconsin have been getting behind Mitt Romney Paul Ryan Ron Johnson.

He seems to have a lot of support there.

He doesn't basic.

Lee you know the establishment of the Republican Party such as as much of that label works to describe any thing.

As basically coalesced around Romney basically saying that this is the guy's gonna be the nominee we gonna start unifying the party.

Paul Ryan has been fairly explicit in saying that's what he's doing same thing when Marco Rubio and in and any of the activists understand that the people who vote in these primaries they're pretty sophisticated political voters they know what's going on Republican Party.

And I think were some form would have a much better shot if they thought he had a much better shot.

But it's sort of this vicious cycle -- -- -- now and some I think the infrastructure.

So far endorsements haven't meant a lot in terms of delivering votes but they do -- a lot in terms of organization in terms of fund raising in the rest.

And it's -- it's hard to see house inform overcomes all that Jonah Goldberg from the national -- Jonah good to talk to.

-- it is here banks are from Bob.

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