(Quinnipiac) Poll: Romney widens lead over Gingrich in Florida

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

Jan 27, 2012

Poll: Romney widens lead over Gingrich in Florida

By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY

Updated 5h 33m ago

Mitt Romney has opened up a 9-point lead on Newt Gingrich in a new Florida poll, released just four days before the state's GOP primary.

The former Massachusetts governor now has 38% support from likely GOP voters, compared with 29% for Gingrich, in the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey.

Ron Paul has 14% support and Rick Santorum has 12% in the poll taken Tuesday through Thursday.

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One caution: The latest poll shows three in 10 likely GOP voters could still change their minds before Tuesday's primary.

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Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/01/mitt-romney-newt-gingrich-florida-poll-quinnipiac-/1

[gopiscrap]

1. Damn I can't stand either him of the grinch

but imho I think the gring would be easier to beat than the smarmy bastard with the secret underwear? How about your thoughts?

[DCBob]

2. and this is pre last night's debate in which Willard bested the Newt.

Unless something crazy happens, I think Romney wins FL easily. The Grinch bounce is over.

[customerserviceguy]

9. I still think Noot is going to win Florida

Just like SC, a lot of people don't want to tell what they might perceive as a snooty high-class pollster from Quinnipiac that they'll vote either for this low-life, or against the Mormon.

Gingrich is like that turd that you simply cannot completely flush, it keeps bobbing back up to the surface!

[DCBob]

11. get out the plunger

that will take care of it.

[MjolnirTime]

14. We all know who you want to win, DCBob. We get it.

[DCBob]

15. you are confused.. I want President Obama to win.

take your show somewhere else thank you.

[AlinPA]

3. It's time for Gingrich to shout "Kenyan"! "Kenyan"! to get the birthers to vote for him.

[Thrill]

4. He stopped talking about Bain

Dumbass

[livetohike]

5. No wonder Santorum went home. That's a pitiful %

Newt will probably stay in the race to the end. Just because he is so arrogant and is trying to make a comeback in politics.

[FrenchieCat]

6. The media is hard at work...along with the GOP PTB.....

This race could have gone either way the media chose to cover it....
it usuallly does.

This written before the South Carolina Primaries offers a large reason
of why that is..... http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2012/01/21/why-2012-will-be-a-close-election/

Prediction: The media will once again Boost Gingrich, but only after
the Florida primaries. Count on it!

[grantcart]

7. I can't believe that Gingrich folded this early.

I was counting on a couple more weeks before crazy took over.

[DCBob]

8. So the question now is if Santorum bails will his supporters go for Newt?

If so will that be enough for Gringrich to make a comeback.

[customerserviceguy]

10. Where else do they go?

If they were comfortable at all with Romney, they would have gone for him by now. There's no other way than Noot to stop the Mormon.

[DCBob]

12. Some will go to Romney just because they simply cant stand Gingrich.

even Republicans have limits on what they can tolerate... some Republicans that is.

[customerserviceguy]

13. Some will

but not until after the nomination might be won by Romney. At this time, they'll cast a "principled" vote for Santorum, who will still be on ballots, even though he may have officially dropped out. Then they'll study their options after Romney gets the nomination, and my prediction is that most of them will do that "principled" vote for a religious third-party protest vote, even knowing that it helps Obama in the swing states. Right now, any Florida fundie knows that a vote for Rick is a vote for Mitt, because it keeps the Noot total down.

I think a lot of it depends on how the next several months go. If Romney wraps it up quickly, then there is the maximum amount of time for hurt fundie feelings to be smoothed over. However, if it looks like Mittens "steals" the nomination with establishment Republicons on his side, then I figure that the fundies and the tea partiers are going to go ballistic on the party, and hurt everyone who was a part of this. If they want to rebuild the GOP in their own image and likeness, it helps to tear the old one down first.