New Rasmussen poll in FL puts Romney up by 8
posted at 9:15 am on January 26, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Mitt Romney’s performance in Monday’s debate turned out to be a game-changer after all. Three days after a Rasmussen poll of likely Republican primary voters showed Newt Gingrich up by nine points, a new survey taken yesterday shows Romney has an eight-point lead heading into tonight’s CNN debate:
Mitt Romney has jumped back ahead in the fevered Florida Republican Primary race with his support back to where it was before Newt Gingrich’s big win Saturday in South Carolina.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Florida Republican Primary Voters, taken Wednesday night, shows Romney with 39% support to Gingrich’s 31%. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum earns 12%, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul runs last with nine percent (9%). Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided.
That’s a ten-point drop for Gingrich since Sunday’s survey, and a seven-point gain for Romney. The momentum of the debate performance, and perhaps the renewed aggression on the campaign trail for Romney, seems to be firmly established in new polling. That makes tonight a must-win evening for Gingricg, and that probably means a lot of bloody knuckles for both men.
Let’s take a look at the differences in the internals. Very conservative voters still choose Gingrich as the stronger candidate against Obama, but that’s down to 47/34 from 56/24 in the earlier survey. Women had given a three-point edge to Romney on this question, but that has now jumped to 22 points, 52/30, and men now give Romney a nine-point lead where Gingrich had a double-digit advantage. The overall rating on this question now favors Romney by 15 points, 49/34, where Gingrich led by 3 on Sunday. Gingrich’s favorability didn’t change much at 63/35, but Romney’s increased to 73/25.
This looks like a very volatile race, though. A big debate stumble by Romney could reverse this yet again. However, with the tax issue off the table and every other line of attack likely to be a rerun, there’s a question about whether Gingrich can find another way to knock Romney off his stride as he did in South Carolina, or go after the media like he did to win in two debates there.
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And then..
There will be tens of millions of Americans that had health care..
That will have it dropped or drop it themselves due to expense.
Thanks Nancy.
Electrongod on April 25, 2013 at 8:05 PM
Surely, the poll was taken of Rush fans of 98% when most other polls are ‘more fair’ by running D45, I35, and R20.
Liam on April 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM
Pelosi and shumer can you think of a combination
That would be more evil?
Well now that I think about it reid and waxman oblamer
Wow just too much evil to list .. Sorry
I should have thought this through.
MrMoe on April 25, 2013 at 8:17 PM
So 21% of the population lives in a vacuum and has no idea who she is? These aren’t “low information voters”, these are DEAD voters.
Nancy-poo is the reason the Democrats won’t retake the House.
GarandFan on April 25, 2013 at 8:18 PM
Evil is hard to contemplate if you’re not in its fold.
Liam on April 25, 2013 at 8:19 PM
About 21% of Americans identify as liberal.
Maybe that’s why the numbers match — not even THEY want to be identified with her?
Just a snarky idea…
Liam on April 25, 2013 at 8:21 PM
Right on its just natural for them
I am disgusted at these communists
MrMoe on April 25, 2013 at 8:22 PM
Sadly America knows only a FRACTION of her political dealings.
It the TRUTH came out in toto … she would be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. She is old enough to remember those days.
Missilengr on April 25, 2013 at 8:40 PM
I don’t like, despise pelosi ried et al. They are scum
But boehner, rubio, et al; they are supposed to be on our side.
davidk on April 25, 2013 at 8:44 PM
If you don’t want Nancy Pelosi to become Speaker of the House again, make sure you have a strong Republican candidate running for Congress in your district in 2014.
Pelosi’s district in San Francisco is almost certain to re-elect her to Congress in 2014.
In 2012, Pelosi got 253,709 votes to win re-election with 85.08% of the vote.http://sfelections.org/results/20121106/index.php
Nancy Pelosi may not be liked in 99.9% of the country, but San Francisco voters evidently love her. San Francisco is unique in so many ways.
wren on April 25, 2013 at 8:49 PM
Pelosi is human trash and if not for our completely dysfunctional political system she would be playing the part of an aging scorned wife, downing handfuls of Valium while her husband was out with his mistress.
Bishop on April 25, 2013 at 8:58 PM
Pelosi is human trash and if not for our completely dysfunctional political system she would be playing the part of an aging scorned wife, downing handfuls of Va1ium while her husband was out with his mistress.
Bishop on April 25, 2013 at 8:59 PM
Val.ium? Really? The filter hits on Val.ium?
Time to catch up with the rest of the world, HotGas, and maybe update your system, what a joke.
Bishop on April 25, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Well known, least liked–I can think of someone else who fits the bill.
hillsoftx on April 25, 2013 at 9:04 PM
Did they mention Nanzi could scare Nosferatu?
viking01 on April 25, 2013 at 9:04 PM
Scumhag on a broom!!!
Schadenfreude on April 25, 2013 at 9:38 PM
Only a district full of sodomites could elect such a despicable reprobate.
tom daschle concerned on April 25, 2013 at 9:41 PM
Welcome to Chicago, buddy.
Lanceman on April 25, 2013 at 10:27 PM
ditto
Plastic surgery addict moron. Replaced her brains with a silicon boob on her 1998 surgery. Gave brain to McCain.
pat on April 26, 2013 at 2:13 AM
Let me deliver the ultimate insult to Pelosi that I know will get under her skin.
If FDR himself was still alive, if he shook hands with Pelosi,he would immediately be washing them afterwards with scalding hot water and then applying half a bottle of hand sanitizer to them, because even HE would consider her that loathsome!
Have a nice day, SanFranNan!
pilamaye on April 26, 2013 at 5:46 AM
My idea of eternal damnation would be to spend all eternity listening to this creature blather on about her views on politics, communism and evil republicans.
acyl72 on April 26, 2013 at 7:09 AM
Do these people ever look any further than the tip of their noses? Libs are jumping up and down that an expansion of Medicaid will give another 70,000 access to health care in our state, but do not consider that we don’t have enough doctors to go around. Remember, ‘if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor’, well, you can if you can get an appointment when you need one.
Kissmygrits on April 26, 2013 at 9:47 AM
Pelosi really needs to be put out to pasture. She has an insane frame of mind in keeping this country strong. ObamaCare is a law that will criple American in a horrible way. Why isn’t Congress in this plan?
karlinsync on April 26, 2013 at 10:07 AM
Anything is possible in this great country.
The truly amazing phenomenon is how is it that someone who is so vacuous of fundamental knowledge and intelligence get to be FOURTH in line to be POTUS.
The baton is passed from VP then Secretary of State then Speaker of the House as I recall.
I’ll blame the Manure Stream Media for this and other recent atrocious situations. They’ve completely abandoned their fundamental purpose as journalists.
A friend in the circle of academe (local University) says they teach ‘advocacy journalism’ these days.
Curious, I always thought that was the arena of Used Car Salespersons?
Missilengr on April 26, 2013 at 7:07 PM