Posted on 01/13/2012 8:28:30 AM PST by Qbert
Mitt Romney still holds first place in the South Carolina Primary field, while his opponents jockey for second with the voting eight days away.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters in South Carolina finds Romney ahead with 28% support, but now former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is in second place with 21% of the vote. Support for former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum who was in second a week ago has fallen back to 16%, putting him dead even with Texas Congressman Ron Paul who also earns 16%.
This South Carolina survey of 750 Likely Republican Primary Voters was conducted on January 12, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
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Go Newt!!
If all the non-Romneys could agree on who will bear the standard, Romney would soon be yesterday’s news.
Just did a quick average of this Rasumssen poll and the ARG poll posted a little further down
Romney: 28.5
Gingrich: 23
Paul: 18
Santorum: 11.5
Conservatives have to make a move and unite behind a single candidate NOW or Romney is going to be the nominee even though he is uwanted by 75% of the GOP voters.
We already had a Free Republic poll and the clear winner was Newt!
Rasmussen does not weight his republican primaries when he should be doing so.
The weightings should be: I. likely voters in the repub primary: 1. republican conservative 2. repub moderate/lib 3. independent conserve, 4. independ moderate/lib
I’m assuming cross-over voting is permitted in S Carolina. I don’t really know.
Could GINGRICH and SANTORUM meet and talk ?
Is that so difficult ? It’s not about them but for the future of USA...and beyond
This is not good news for Newt.
I have simulated 7 following counties so far and have Newt at 21.41%. He is flat.
Anderson
Richland
Charleston
Aiken
Abbeville
Allendale
Oconee
With Santorum at 16%, it seems that Perry is garnering more Evangelical support than I thought in the NW. This leads to suggest that those not supporting to Santorum are turning to Perry before going to Gingrich, which is not good.
Once again, Paul is also running higher. I had him in the 13-15%. His increase may bring down slightly Romney’s percentages in Columbia and Charleston.
Overall, Newt hasn’t gained and Santorum has lost ground to Perry. If Santorum (who I had at 21.71%) had lost ground to Newt, then Gingrich should have been up over 25%. The fact he isn’t leads me to believe Gingrich has issues in the NW part of the state and that Perry is taking more votes than I though.
In some way, shape or form, Gingrich and Santorum need to join forces.
They might, but I for one will never vote for Gingrich. Period.
It sounds like Santorum is definitely in decline. I suspected this would happen after his disappointing post-Iowa performances.
Now if only we could get the Paulies to see the light...
If I have to vote for the nom today it would be Newt. Newt has overall has had higher numbers than Perry or Santorum who have been mostly battling for third.
The one time Newt has had lower numbers have mostly been a result of Romney/Paul smear job. Otherwise, Newts numbers would have been more consistent and higher.
time for Rick to drop out and endorse newt
Newt/Rick 2012!
Maybe Santorum would be willing to be Gingrich’s veep, with Gingrich promising Perry, Cain, and Palin each a prominent place in his cabinet. And even Ron Paul would get a promise to be made D.C.’s dogcatcher. (Pet isolationism, anybody?)
Yes Independents can vote in the SC primary so I was thinking Rasmussen should have had some indenpendents in that poll.
What is Perry’s number? Rasmussen doesn’t even list Perry. Yet if you add the numbers up, there are 19% unaccounted for. I’m sure most are undecided, but Perry must be getting some support.
Unwanted AND unelectable.
Two very bad traits going into the general election.
But, hey — this is how the GOP and their various minions seems to want it. This is how various VOTERS seem to want it.
Perhaps we’re just going to have to sit back and watch as the country self implodes, and hopefully be here to pick up the pieces later on.
If we’re still here. If we’re not all in jail, detained, taxed to death, taken over, or otherwise.
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