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).
Insider Advantager poll just released for SC has Newt at 32%, Romney 29%, Santuckabee 11%
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2834757/posts
I am sure that they will make a huge deal of the interview. It is the new blood sport of the MSM "Whack the Republican Leader"
Much the same way Herman Cain had from the beginning
We've just cast our early ballots for Newt here in Florida
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