Rick Santorum leads big in TN, poll finds

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Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has brought his national momentum to Tennessee, outdistancing Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney by a nearly 2-to-1 margin among voters taking part in a new Vanderbilt University poll.

But with Tennessee’s GOP primary now just nine days away, the race here remains fluid because one in four potential voters say they don’t know or don’t like any of the candidates, said Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer.

“As big a theme as Santorum leading is that a lot of people haven’t made up their minds,” said Geer, co-director of the Vanderbilt Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

The center commissioned the survey of 1,508 registered Tennessee voters — including 815 who indicated a preference for a Republican candidate — Feb. 16-22, during the first week of early voting. The poll had a margin of error of 2.6 percentage points.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120226/NEWS02/302260066/Rick-Santorum-leads-big-TN-poll-finds?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

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1. In reality "None of the Above" still way ahead.