Posted on 01/19/2012 9:14:19 AM PST by DestroyLiberalism
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has now surged ahead of Mitt Romney in the final Rasmussen Reports survey of the South Carolina Republican Primary race with the vote just two days away.
The latest telephone survey of Likely GOP Primary Voters in the state finds Gingrich with 33% support to Romney’s 31%. Two days ago, before the last debate, it was Romney by 14 percentage points.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul now runs third with 15% of the vote, followed by former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum at 11%. Paul's support is steady while Santorum's support has dropped five points since Monday. At the beginning of the month, just after Santorum’s strong showing in the Iowa caucuses, he ran second to Romney with 24% of the vote.
Texas Governor Rick Perry continues to run last with two percent (2%) support. He has dropped out of the race today and endorsed Gingrich. One percent (1%) of likely primary voters like some other candidate in the contest, and six percent (6%) remain undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The new findings come following Gingrich’s strong performance in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Monday night. Sarah Palin also signaled support for Gingrich which could have a significant impact in South Carolina. Two years ago, her endorsement of Nikki Haley transformed the race for governor. Ironically, now that Haley is governor, she has endorsed Romney while Palin is backing Gingrich for the moment.
The candidates will debate again in South Carolina this evening.
The race for the Republican presidential nomination is now nearly even nationally with Romney still on top with 30% support but Gingrich just three points behind at 27%. Santorum who was running second has dropped to 15%.
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Hey Newton...How about some apple pi.
Hey Newton...
I agree. And if Santorum is smart, he’d realize that it’s the only way he’ll get anywhere near the White House.
Cute — except, well, Santorum looked like a bit of a nerd compared to what he looks like now.
Hey, have we EVER seen zero’s high school pic? I don’t recall ever having seen one. We see those dope smoking couch photos, but not much else.
Newt seemed like a VERY well-rounded young man with all of his activities.
It doesn’t require good debating skills to be a good president. The teleprompter turd would fail on the same scale and yet, he is called intelligent because he can read.
Good one.
GO NEWT GO.......
Marianne Gringrich: portrait of a bitter, vengeful ex-wife who is furious that Calista could be the First Lady instead of her.
The nerve of this woman! She cheated with Newt on his first wife.
Who paid her off- Obama and his rats or Romney?
Pathetic
The corrupt media will smear any leading opponent of bo. Make no mistake, the alphabet networks and the nytimes are enemies of free people everywhere.
I think the story that Santorum has dropped so low is just as big a headline in this story.
Might wanna cool your jets there Buckeye; the Democrat media has brought out Newts ex-wife and she’s already busy stabbing him in the back.
He’s done.........you can stick a fork in him.
Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned.....
Gingrich looks like the guy who always ran the movie projector.
Santorum looks like the jerk that always reminded the teacher that she had forgotten to give out homework assignments, 2 seconds before the bell.
GO-MOVIE PROJECTOR GUY-GO.....
He’s just getting started. The democrats will try and stick a fork in whoever gets the nod. Not buying it...Newt will slice and dice the Kenyan Catastrophe.
Well, if this is a disqualifier, I don't think I'll ever run for public office! :-)
We all knew SC would be Newts best shot. If he did well, and he usually does, in the debates, they’d need something to knock him back.
IIRC this interview was taped before the debates, then probably shelved, ‘in case’.
What will be more telling is how widespread this story is today with the talking heads. They sure waited on the Bain to see if it got any traction first.
Now hopefully Newt and Rick S can sit down and talk and possibly give the other a VP spot or a high end position if we win against the MSM, establishment, the elitist, the white house and all the billionaires like Soros.
Never said it was required, but it does help win. And republican’s are tired of putting up people for debates that can’t make the conservative case for us. Newt clearly has the best chance to make the conservative case in a debate. But Perry is definitely better 1:1 and with crowds. So this could be interesting. Maybe Perry for VP. That would be interesting seeing him debate Biden.
or it could go like this
Hell Rove you said we had this in the bag, you and the others had better get our pals like Hannity on this.
You can bet Hannity and co will be working to see if they can get the numbers back up for their elitist cross dressing homosexual pal.
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