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Posted on 02/07/2012 1:20:59 PM PST by VinL
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney now holds a seven-point lead over Newt Gingrich to reclaim the lead in the national race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters shows Romney with 34% support to Gingrich’s 27%. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania gets 18% of the vote, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul runs last with 11%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and seven percent (7%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Two weeks ago, it was Gingrich, coming off his big South Carolina Primary win, ahead by seven - with 35% to Romney’s 28%, Santorum at 16% and Paul at 10%. But Romney’s decisive win over Gingrich in the subsequent Florida GOP Primary appears to have changed all of that.
Gingrich remains Romney’s strongest rival, even when the race is reduced to a two-candidate faceoff. When it’s Romney versus the former House speaker with no other candidates in the contest, it’s Romney 46% to Gingrich’s 40%.
Pitted against Santorum, Romney leads 50% to 38%.
The frontrunner holds a nearly two-to-one lead – 58% to 30% - over Paul in their one-to-one matchup.
Romney holds double-digit leads in both Arizona and Michigan where Republican voters will vote in February 28 primaries.
The national survey of 1,000 Likely Republican Primary Voters was conducted on February 6, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC
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The only way Newt can win is if Santorum either drops out or people finally see through his campaign for what it is (spoiler). Clearly the establishment is funding to keep Santorum alive.
Once again, we see that Romney is at around 34-35% and conservatives are around 45%.
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Come on Rev. Santorum, do the right thing.
C’mon, Rick, please bow out with grace and for the cause of Conservatism. If you don’t, Romney wins pretty much by default. If you can make a deal with Newt to be his Veep, then the 2 of you together can beat him and then Obama. Bush did a similar deal in 1980, and he ended up as POTUS 8 years later. I would expect the same for you. Please,
Rick, we have to beat Romney.
Empty vest
That’s key-—
The Anti-Newt vote is up to 52% (Romney + Santorum)
Izzat what Newt’s lugging around?
The only way Newt can win is ironically, if all 3 non-Romney candidates stay in, ushering in a brokered convention.
Can Newt and Rick just draw straws, flip a coin or play rock, paper, scissors? Mitt needs to be stopped, and it won’t happen with both of them in the race.
And I hear he puts that vest on one arm at a time just like every other wuss.
This poll says that if Santorum dropped out, Gingrich would gain 1% on Romney.
Actually- it’s all about money, isn’t it? Romney can overwhelm Newt or Rick with neg. ads— but harder to do with 2 in the race. And as long as Rick and Newt will be adult and ultimately cooperative, they can bring him down.
Newt has not said 1 bad word about Rick- now Rick should respond in kind. They have to double team the GOP-E.
Interesting
Really, where did the other 17% go?
Did they poll what would happen to Santorum’s numbers if Newt dropped out?
Funny!
Did they poll what would happen to Santorum’s numbers if Newt dropped out?
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Yes. “Pitted against Santorum, Romney leads 50% to 38%” (see article)
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