Now in the home stretch, as the contestants jockey around for the support of Ohio’s GOP voters, the match-up is getting a little more interesting.
Over the last couple weeks, we’ve seen former Senator Rick Santorum track ahead of fellow hopeful Mitt Romney. Now, the latest polling shows Romney’s been able to hack down his rival’s lead to within striking distance. In fact, the two candidates are now polling within the margin of error, meaning the whole casserole is up for grabs.
The Plain Dealer reports the latest Quinnipiac numbers: Santorum 35, Romney 31 percent.
The new poll has Newt Gingrich at 17 percent and Ron Paul at 12 percent.
A third of the 517 likely Republican primary voters who were polled said they still might change their minds.
One thing stands out clearly: Conservative Republicans still prefer Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. Santorum leads Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, among self-described conservatives by 13 points. And Santorum leads Romney among Tea Party members by 17 points.
Romney leads among self-described moderates by 20 points, the Quinnipiac poll shows.
This article appears in Feb 29 – Mar 6, 2012.
Rick threw up when he was about five years old when JFK said he would not bring Catholocism into the presidency. So Rick was already set in his beliefs so hard that he knew one 1) To hate anything a democrat said even if he was a Catholic and 2) To believe that if he was to ever become president of the USA he would bring the dogma of the Catholic Church into his every major decision.
Mitt believes that because he has run an opportunistic bottom-feeding corporation which buys businesses, fires people and forces the bought businesses to make a profit or fold, he has the qualifications to run the USA which is the voice of the free world (still, but not for long if we vote a prick like Mitt into the highest position on earth).