Latest PPP Poll: Newt Gingrich 34, Mitt Romney 28

PPP ^ | 1/19/2012 | Tom Jensen

[wrrock]

Newt Gingrich led Mitt Romney 34-28 in PPP's South Carolina polling last night, the first of what will be three nights of tracking. Ron Paul at 15%, Rick Santorum at 14%, Rick Perry at 5%, and Buddy Roemer at 3% round out the field.

This is not a case of Romney imploding. His support has been pretty steady in the 28-30% range in our South Carolina polling so far. But Gingrich has risen from 23% to 34% over the last two weeks, benefiting from declining support for Santorum and also from undecided voters moving into his camp.

It's clear that the debate Monday night did a lot to help Gingrich's prospects in the state. 56% of voters say they watched it, and with those folks Gingrich's lead over Romney is 43-27. Romney still has a 29-22 advantage on Gingrich with those who didn't tune in.

[TexasFreeper2009]

OH YEAH!

Take THAT Mittens!

MAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

GO NEWT!

[CommerceComet]

This could still shift but I think that this result is conservatives coalescing around the person most likely to derail Romney.

[for-q-clinton]

56% of voters say they watched it, and with those folks Gingrich's lead over Romney is 43-27. Romney still has a 29-22 advantage on Gingrich with those who didn't tune in.

This is why we want Newt...we'd love to see him put Conservatism up vs. Obama's socialist agenda on the national stage.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww poor Mittens..not having a very good day are you..first Santorum wins Iowa and now Newt is kicking his fanny..time to call ABC News back and tell them the back news, the smear campaign isn’t working

[wrrock]

Actually 3 polls show Gingrich leading: Rasmussen shows Gingrich leading Romney 33 to 31 percent:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/south_carolina/election_2012_south_carolina_republican_primary

Insider Advantage shows Gingrich ahead by 32 to 29 percent.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2012/InsiderAdvantage_SC_0118.pdf

Public Policy Polling shows Gingrich leading by 34 to 28 percent.

[baddog 219]

Would you by a used car from this man?

[org.whodat]

Get back in Cain, you have been crapped on, by two many republicans, get back in. You did nothing wrong.

[CainConservative]

South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary

WEDNESDAY: Insider Advantage (R)
Gingrich 32, Romney 29, Paul 15, Santorum 11, Perry 3 Gingrich +3 :~)

WEDNESDAY: Rasmussen (R)
Gingrich 33, Romney 31, Paul 15, Santorum 11, Perry 2 Gingrich +2 :~)

WEDNESDAY: PPP (D)
Gingrich 34, Romney 28, Paul 15, Santorum 14, Perry 5 Gingrich +6 :~)

TUESDAY: Politico (D)
Romney 37, Gingrich 30, Paul 11, Santorum 10, Perry 4 Romney +7

MONDAY: NBC News (D)
Romney 34, Gingrich 24, Paul 16, Santorum 14, Perry 4 Romney +10

[GonzoGOP]

And now we know why ABC is dragging out Newt's ex-wife. All the plans for the democrats involved running against Romney. They can beat Romney by going negative. Gingrich is harder because so much of what he has done wrong is old news. In financial terms it is all priced in already.

Newt was not my favorite. To be honest he was number six on the list. The first two didn't run and the next three imploded. So we have Newt, the best of what's left. But for all his failings he can beat Obama. And he would get rid of Obamas cronies in the government. We would need a strong Tea Party in congress to watch him, but unlike Romney he can be pushed into doing the right thing most of the time.

[CainConservative]

Why would you want to split the CONSERVATIVE vote again?

UNLESS you’re Rombot in disguise?

[duckworth]

3%??? When is Buddy Roemer going to drop out?

[org.whodat]

Split hell, Cain had all the support, get in Cain, you did nothing wrong.

[RoosterRedux]

This kind of positive momentum for Newt just before the SC primary will kill Romney (or so I hope).

All we need now is Sarah's endorsement to seal the deal.

Go Newt!

[CainConservative]

I don’t think you understand how Republican primary politics works.

Btw, are you a registered Republican? And if so, for how long?

[CainConservative]

I heard somewhere that Newt received 150 Tea party organizers’ endorsements today in SC.

He’s definitely on a roll.......and if Palin, Huck, Cain, etc. want to board a flight to Carolina, now’s the time to be BOLD & DO IT!

[SENTINEL]

Gingrich + Santorum = ~50% too !

FUMR !!

[dsrtsage]

The good news is for the first time in a long time with a Newt candidacy, the MSM will not characterize him stupid...we are at last back at the point where the MSM will characterize our candidate as evil.

[mmanager]

GO NEWT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gator113]

Love it, love it, love it.

It’s kinda comical watching Fox-Romney-news tie themselves into knots trying to change this.

The bastards won’t give up, but I suspect that today, Rove has flu like symptoms.

Dana Perino is tripping all over herself and I fully expect her to be crying on live TV before this is all over.

FFNews...

GO NEWT GO.......