Send home the clown...
These are tweets related to a poll to be released, I’m guessing, tomorrow or Friday. Might seem too fragmentary to be news, however this is the first South Carolina poll I’m aware of conducted wholly after the Monday night debate, and it looks to be great news for Gingrich. And the news from these tweets is reinforced by three other polls:
1) The national Rasmussen poll conducted 1/17, finding Romney & Newt in a statistical dead heat of 30 v. 27 (an 11 point gain for Newt from 2 weeks ago):
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/election_2012_republican_presidential_primary
2) The Gallup tracking poll for 1/13 - 1/17, which still has Romney way ahead of Gingrich at 33 v. 16, however, just one of the 5 polling days was post-debate, and if you look at the link to the graph below, you see Gingrich has been trending up for 3 days, while Romney seems to have peaked & is trending down:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx
3) Finally, the mostly pre-debate CNN/Time South Carolina poll taken 1/13 - 1/17 has Romney ahead of Gingrich 33 v. 23. This 10 point gap is almost half the 19 point gap between Romney and Gingrich in the CNN/Time South Carolina poll taken 1/4 - 1/5 (37 v. 18.)
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/01/18/topstate4.pdf
So I think there was a fairly strong trend making Gingrich the winner or a strong second in South Carolina Saturday. Whether the Marianne Gingrich interview will kill or dampen that trend, I don’t pretend to know (but I doubt it).
NEWT! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT ! NEWT !
GO NEWT!
PPP polls should be largely ignored. PPP is a RAT polling company.
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About 60% of SC voters saying they watched the debate Monday night...really could be the reason for Newt’s momentum
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60% !!!!
just freaking WOW
“Mitt’s not really losing support in SC but Santorum’s really collapsed and his people clearly are going to Newt”
I think we can thank Sarah Palin for that along with Newts great debate performance. The msm and the RINOs have stooped so low that they have to drag out Marianne Gingrich and rehash the old interviews as if they are something new. I hope it backfires on them big time. It is so obvious as to what they are doing if anyone is paying any attention at all. GO NEWT GO!
Newtmentum is showing in all of the polls!!!!!!
Now we can only guess what happens after ABC News turns a national TV network over to a vindictive ex-wife...
At this point it’s Newt or naught. South Carolina, do your duty!