Poll: Rick Santorm takes slight lead in GOP race [Santorum]

CBS News ^ | 2/14/2012 | Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto

[CharlesWayneCT]

Rick Santorum has pulled slightly ahead of Mitt Romney in Republican primary voters' preference for the presidential nomination, a national CBS News/New York Times Poll shows.

Ron Paul is now in third, followed by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
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Santorum receives strong backing from conservatives, tea party supporters and white evangelicals.

Self-identified conservatives divided their support among the candidates in January, but in this poll they appear to be coalescing solidly behind Santorum. He receives far more support from this group than Romney does, and conservative support for Santorum has increased since last month.
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Santorum also leads the Republican field among tea party supporters, who make up more than four in 10 Republican primary voters, as well as evangelical Christians. Evangelicals were key to Santorum's narrow win in Iowa last month.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Oddly, I didn't see this poll posted directly, just a blog entry from HotAir that referenced it. Figured it couldn't hurt to have a thread for the actual poll.

Have at it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

And yes, CBS NEWS actually mis-spelled Rick Santorum’s name in their headline. That’s how clueless they are.

I imagine eventually they will fix it, so I wanted to make sure people knew it wasn’t my fault.

[USS Alaska]

We'll have to see how Rick can hold up against what the media and mittens will throw at him.

The obummer internal team {using the demonRAT funds} will wait until the external team {msm} does it's job.

If the external team is effective, then obummer won't need to spend any money on destroying Santorum.

[writer33]

For those interested.