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Sorry, incorrect again.

Perry led Romney up until the last week of September in 2011. Then Romney and Cain traded places until Veterans Day. Then Gingrich led all of the polls until 2012.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html#polls

Polls at this point in a race are very fluid, have questionable sampling data, and are entirely reliant on name recognition.

No, they are not. And you are looking at national polls. No one, not Gingrich, not Cain, no one, led ALL state polls the way Trump has. He has led in 155/160 polls at all levels, and the only ones he ever trailed were two to Walker (IA, WI, now gone), one in OH to Kasich, and there was an early UT poll where he trailed. But very soon, you'll have to drop this line too, because Trump's lead isn't going anywhere. The polls aren't "fluid" with him. He has been consistently 8-30 (!!) points ahead of every competitor, and NO competitor has held the #2 spot for more than a month---Carson coming closest, but he faded before his Muslim comments, then made a comeback.

Trump recognizes he needs to beat back #2 only. He isn't worried about #10. Moreover, he has money that Cain and Gingrich only dreamed of having, and has far more money than Carson and Cruz put together. Finally, the states where Carson is #2, quite often the next state up has someone else in #2 slot. So in terms of delegates, it's pretty much a done deal.