Santorum lead shrinking in national poll
(CNN) – Rick Santorum's lead among registered Republicans nationwide fell to a six-point margin with rival Mitt Romney, according to a poll out Friday.
The figures from the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll show Santorum with the backing on 33% of registered Republicans, while Romney had the support of 27%.
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That represents a drop from the ten-point lead Santorum had on Romney on Tuesday. Since then, his support dropped three points, from 36% to 33%. Romney inched up one percentage point, 26% to 27%.
For the ongoing poll, Gallup surveys more than 1,000 registered Republican voters on a daily basis. The poll drops the oldest of five days each day and adds results from the most recent day of polling.
In the latest survey, Gallup questioned 1,187 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents by telephone between February 19 and February 23, with a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
The time span of Friday's survey included one day of polling following CNN's Arizona Republican Presidential Debate, the final time the four candidates will square off before key contests in Michigan and Arizona on Tuesday, as well as the votes in ten states on Super Tuesday, March 6.
The two other candidates in the race, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, were both far behind the two frontrunners. Gingrich stood at 16% and Paul was at 11%.
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Mitt, when it takes a candidate 5 years to get his act together to run and you still can't...You're fired"
Given how poorly attended the GOP primaries/caucus have been to date, and how embarrassing the candidates behavior and speech-making has been, not to mention how much of the general population they've alienated with their crazy ideas (especially women and minorities), I'm surpirsed CNN was able to find 1,187 republicans in the entire country that would actually agree to be included in the poll!
Thank God! He says he is not a manager and not a visionary and he would like us to go backward about 55 years, so what the heck is he running for president for? Oh, I get it – because he thinks he has the answer to all of us living a moral life. Forget about the speck in your neighbor's eye and get rid of the log in your own.
Surprise, surprise – NOT. His foolish talk is finally sinking in and people are rightfully getting concerned about the prospect of this man being in the Oval Office with his hand on the football.
What goes up must...you know the rest. This guy mainly rose to "Frontrunner" because of such a weak and pathetic field of "presidential" candidates. They're looking for anyone but Romney. Gingrich is an idiot. Paul is a little too Libertarian.
I see a fight in Tampa. Good. Good. Good.
Obama Biden 2012 and Infinity
Don't forget the fall of the Republican party started with Sarah Palin when Republicans supported pure stupidity and they continue to do so. The Republican Party is now a headless body.
He's lucky he still has a lead. His prayers have been answered. Santorum is going to have a busy 4 days.
Only Rich White Man get GOP nomination so Flip Flopper is GOP nominee
Example
2008 John Mc Cain doesn’t know how may houses his wife owns
Sniffit, where have you been?
I guess the shine has worn off the latest nonromney.
jaywing...I live in central Ohio and I think 60% of the people here are Tea Baggers or one-issue voters. You wouldn't believe the hate and vitriol for Obama around here. Outside of the City of Columbus, that is. I try to educate, but you can't fix stupid.
Glad to see the voters are responding to this many religious statements.
We WANT Santorum to win the nomination everyone. That way, when the President makes him look like the fool he is, we will all get to see many "gotch moments" and a landslide in November. The GOP's only hope is that Christie puts down the fried chicken long enough to put his large hat in the ring or Sarah comes to the rescue at the convention.
Did anyone notice the "We Reccomend" links below the article about Santorum slipping in the polls? An article about Santorum surging in the polls??? Someone at CNN needs to wake up.
Well, it looks like there are no more GOP "rising stars" to choose from, so, it looks like it will be meteorite Mittens for the win!
Just what we need, another elitist 1% er to plunder and pillage America for the very rich!
Big surprise, we don’t need another Theocracy in the World..
Santorum is a self righteous zealot
your not a conservative just because you say you are the truth always comes out. romney 2012
Obama is killing us grow up Obama will lose thank god
Another flash in the pan? More like another dropping in the loo.
It is not a surprise taliban santorum.
Dan, TX
Rick should have kept his mouth shut when he got ahead. Another rising and then falling star. Everyone except Ron Paul has taken the lead and then fallen back. Let's give Ron Paul a chance.
Ron Paul a chance? No thank you. Only in HIS mind are the 1950's the way to go.
I would like to personally thank the republican crowd for buying the shiny box with a pretty bow, without looking inside. I will get richer due to lack of ability to see the big picture. It is wonderful that speculators can buy up the supply after being deregulated. If the Keystone pipeline is approved will drive prices up higher when the resources to process the oil for export is tied up. My oil investments should really pay off. I love the deregulation that allowed the big box companies to move over to China. The record profits will make my investments payoff. One sad note to that is the middleclass that makes up the consumer group is almost gone. Got to love globalization, now I can invest in cheaply made crap that makes money. The dumb up of education is very encouraging. The future class of worker bees holds promise. The no kid left behind and standardized testing was truly inspired. Imagine dumb up education to the slowest one in the classroom. I love trickle down, not having to pay a high rate of taxes on my profits. To think people actually think I am going to invest money to build stuff in the USA, when there is no middleclass to buy it. It is so great to have the right to bet on failures and legally hide money now that Wall Street was deregulated. The profit opportunity is tremendous. I love that the loan companies were leaned on to make variable rate and high-risk loans to hide the recession in Bush presidency. Man, did I rake it in on the large amount of customers and got to make money off the foreclosures. I love the push for small business; man does it save on labor cost. It is fantastic to pay so little to employees now. I send my love to all of the Republicans out there.
How is Obama killing us Joan? Bush damn near did that. People need to let go of the hatred for no reason at all. I live in Detroit and lost my good job with benefits under Bush. But I now have a new one. Good riddance to Santorum, he was a nut job anyway.
I have so much to say but everyone has beat me to it.Its not that Ricks so wrong or Mitt is so wrong.Its the republican party and their need to shovel their religious agenda thats wrong.But they don't even agree on their own agenda.To many religions and and they all think they're the only ones that are right.wrong
It's God's will that his lead is shrinking