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Santorum Grabs National Lead
By: Jon Walker - FDL
Monday February 13, 2012 3:24 pm

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The good news for Rick Santorum keeps on coming. Santorum now has surged to a modest two point lead over Mitt Romney in Pew Research national Republican primary polling. The poll was conducted from February 8-12 directly after Santorum’s three big wins last Tuesday. From Pew: http://www.people-press.org/2012/02/13/santorum-catches-romney-in-gop-race/?src=prc-headline



Santorum is beating Romney, because he is now doing much better among more conservative voting groups. Santorum has a double digit lead among Tea Party supporters (42% Santorum – 23% Romney) and White Evangelicals (41% Santorum – 23% Romney).

Besides showing him with the national lead, the poll’s other piece of relatively good news for Santorum is that Romney does only slightly better than Santorum in a theoretical general election match up with Obama. Romney performs only two points better in the general. From Pew:

Obama leads Santorum by 10 points among all registered voters (53% to 43%) and his lead over Romney is nearly as large (52% to 44%). Romney ran about even with Obama in November and mid-January. Obama has a larger advantage over Newt Gingrich than over Santorum or Romney: Obama leads the former House speaker by 18 points (57% to 39%). Obama has made gains among independent voters. Today, 51% of independents favor Obama in a matchup against Romney, up from 40% a month ago.

Link: http://elections.firedoglake.com/2012/02/13/santorum-grabs-national-lead/



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