Romney, Santorum virtually tied in new Michigan poll
Romney, Santorum virtually tied in new Michigan poll
11:17 AM, February 21, 2012
By Todd Spangler
Detroit Free Press Washington Staff
WASHINGTON – At least one new poll suggest Mitt Romney has erased Rick Santorum’s lead on him in Romney’s home state of Michigan.
The Michigan Information & Research Service, MIRS, released a poll Tuesday morning showing Romney leading Santorum 32%-30% in the race to win Michigan’s Feb. 28 Republican presidential primary. The poll of 420 likely GOP primary voters was done Monday by Mitchell Research/Rosetta Stone and has a margin of error of 4.7 percentage points.
It shows former House Speaker Newt Gingrich trailing the two Michigan frontrunners with 9% and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas next with 7%. However, the poll showed the potential for a great deal of change with 22% saying they were undecided.
If nothing else, the poll indicates how unsettled an already volatile campaign remains. Polls last week showed Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, had grabbed a lead nationally and in Michigan following a three-state sweep of Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri the week before. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who grew up in Oakland County, had been considered a shoo-in the win Michigan a week from Tuesday before that.
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