Fox undersampled independents by 7-9%. However those voters would mostly accrue to Paul and not Mittens or Newt, so the lead is essentially the same. Gingrich's use of the disastrous "documentary" against Mittens has backfired big time.
Yeah, if anything the 40% is probably too low. Romney has been steadily rising in the last 3 national polls, and even this Fox poll still included 5% for Huntsman, 3-4% of which will go to Romney.
"Gingrich's use of the disastrous "documentary" against Mittens has backfired big time."
Of all the things he could've attacked Romney with, he had to choose that for some odd reason.
The poll is based on live telephone interviews with a national sample of 906 registered voters, and was conducted January 12-14, 2012 in the evenings. Landline and cell phone telephone numbers were randomly selected
Results among subgroups have larger sampling errors, including:Democrats (n = 367) ± 5% Republicans (n = 356) ± 5%Independents (n = 171) ± 7.5% GOP Primary Voters (n = 365) ± 5%