CBS national poll on repub presidential candidates: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum within 5 points. [View all]

[pampango]

Mitt is staying in the 15-20% range he has not been able to break out of. Newt is still a strong second which surprised me. Rick is now in third place within 5 points of Romney nationwide.

An interesting snapshot of the race but the big Romney campaign and super PAC money has yet to be hurled at the others. The republican 1% obviously are behind Mitt and are happy that the plethora of other candidates are splitting up the anti-Romney vote. He's polling about 15-20% that he did in 2008, but it looks better this time around since his opposition is fractured and it puts him in first place.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57354892-503544/poll-romney-leads-santorum-surges-into-top-3/