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    Romney widens lead over Gingrich in Florida: Reuters/Ipsos poll

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney widened his lead over rival Newt Gingrich to 11 percentage points in Florida, according to Reuters/Ipsos online poll results on Saturday, up from 8 points a day earlier, as he cemented his front-runner status in the Republican nomination race.

    With just three days remaining before Florida's Republican primary, Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, led Gingrich, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, by 43 percent to 32 percent among likely voters in Florida's January 31 primary, the online poll said.

    He had led Gingrich by 41 percent to 33 percent in the online tracking poll on Friday.

    "The momentum in Florida ... really seems to be moving in Romney's direction," said Chris Jackson, research director for Ipsos Public Affairs.

    The poll confirmed that Romney's fortunes are turning around in Florida a week after a stinging setback when Gingrich scored an upset win in South Carolina's primary.

    Romney has moved ahead of Gingrich in several Florida polls, after turning in his strongest debate performance yet in the seesawing race for the Republican nomination to oppose Democratic President Barack Obama's bid for re-election in November.

    The Reuters/Ipsos survey showed Romney also gained when voters were asked who they would support in a head-to-head contest with Gingrich. Saturday's results showed that 53 percent would support him, versus 45 percent for Gingrich.

    In the results released on Friday, Romney had led by just 2 percentage points when voters were asked the same question.

    SANTORUM GETTING SOME GINGRICH SUPPORT?

    Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum trailed well behind with 16 percent support, but he had gained ground from 13 percent in Friday's results.

    "It seems like some people who are leaving Gingrich are moving to the other conservative in the race, Rick Santorum," Jackson said.

    Texas Congressman Ron Paul was at 6 percent, up from 5 percent. The small-government libertarian has not been campaigning in Florida.

    Romney has subjected Gingrich to a blistering run of attack advertisements in Florida. He has assailed Gingrich for leaving Congress under an ethics cloud in the 1990s and for being a Washington insider and lobbyist in the two decades since.

    Gingrich denies he ever worked as a lobbyist, but has yet to find an effective way to parry Romney's attacks.

    The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, capturing many voters after the most recent debate in Jacksonville on Thursday, where Romney was seen as a clear winner.

    Florida lets voters cast their ballots early at polling stations or by mail, and 30 percent of the poll respondents said they had done so, compared with 29 percent on Friday.

    Romney held a 12-point lead among those who had already voted, and an 11-point lead among those who had not yet voted.

    Statistical margins of error are not applicable to online surveys, but this poll of 903 likely voters has a credibility interval of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

    Saturday's Reuters/Ipsos survey is the second of four daily tracking polls being released ahead of Tuesday's Florida primary.

    (Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

    What do you feel about this article?

     
    • WoeAreWe  •  Earth, United States  •  27 days ago
      So then 6% of Florida (registered) Republicans are not sheep who don't "do their own research"? That's not too bad considering the massive dumbing-down & propaganda & media "blackout"...
    • Pollyanna  •  28 days ago
      The national debt is estimated to be $20T by 2020. I'd bet it will be that before. You've watched housing prices crash. Just imagine when the dollar crashes.
    • JACKSON  •  Mountain Home, United States  •  28 days ago
      Who gives a $$ what the media thinks voters can think for them self
    • Ray Sisd  •  28 days ago
      If the American people ever allow a central bank to control the issuance of their currency, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will...deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
      –Thomas Jefferson
    • NyteMayR  •  Lawrence, United States  •  28 days ago
      nice to see integrity overcoming sleazy
    • ROBIN I  •  28 days ago
      Polls... such #$%$!!
    • Eva  •  Sunnyvale, United States  •  28 days ago
      I'm not particularly young, and I've never once been polled. Nor has anyone I've ever known.
    • billy  •  Meadville, United States  •  28 days ago
      These candidates (including Obama) are all multi-millionaires so which one do you think really gives a dam about the common people?
    • amyluvu28  •  Palmdale, United States  •  28 days ago
      Who is Newt?:
      10/22/1991 – Voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
      03/-/1993 – Voted for sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
      11/19/1993 – Voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
      11/27/1994 – Supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
      08/27/1995 – Suggested that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
      04/25/1996 – Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
      04/10/1995 – Supported Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.
      06/01/1996 – Helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in 1996 election.
      09/25/1996 – Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
      01/22/1997 – Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
      11/29/2006 – Stated that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Called for a “serious debate about the 1st Amendment.”
      02/15/2007 – Supported Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
      09/28/2008 – Stated if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
      10/01/2008 – Stated in an article that TARP was a “workout, not a bailout.”
      12/08/2008 – Paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
      03/31/2009 – States we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
      07/30/2010 – States that Iraq was just step one in defeating the “Axis of Evil”.
      08/03/2010 – Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.
      11/15/2010 – Defended Romneycare
      12/05/2010 – Stated that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
      01/30/2011 – Lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
      01/30/2011 – Suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
      02/13/2011 – Criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.
      02/15/2011 – Wrote book saying he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating “a new endowment for conservation and the environment.”
      03/09/2011 – Blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
      03/15/2011 – Stated that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
      03/19/2011 – Shows no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
      03/23/2011 – Completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
      03/25/2011 – Plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
      04/25/2011 – Became paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
      05/12/2011 – More supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
      06/09/2011 – Campaign staff resigned en masse.
    • bertha fay  •  Austin, United States  •  28 days ago
      Candidates for the good of our country please get REAL with the American voter. Talk about a real plan for turning this country around - across the board budget cuts (NO exceptions), tax code reform and responsible tax increases to start to pay down the debt NOT to maintain/increase current spending.

      FOCUS on today's issues jobs, the economy, a balanced budget and starting to pay down the debt. SHUT-UP about non-essential issues like religion, marriage, gays, abortion, space exploration, educating illegal's children, etc.

      We, the voters, are FED-UP with the debt ceiling "drama", Norquist pledges,
      S&P downgrade, "super" committee failure, Obama's "fairy tales" and the Republican "side shows" infighting.
    • The Revolution  •  28 days ago
      The mainstream media = mainstream politics.
    • Eva  •  Sunnyvale, United States  •  28 days ago
      This time around, do you think maybe we can elect a president who at least LIKES the country?
    • zadie B  •  San Diego, United States  •  28 days ago
      I do not care how much money he has, i want him to make English the national language, Deport all illegals, close down companies that hire illegals, make all immigrant lawfully apply to enter the country and made to assimulate into American ways not their ways. This is America so Act American and when I go to your country I will follow your ways, so have repect. Immigration is not being done by Romey ...he is out of there
    • Jabberwocky  •  Branson, United States  •  28 days ago
      A quick fix.
      By putting more money in the hands of the middle class
      wage earner and small business owner... the government
      will receive a huge benefit.
      The reason for this is that the wage earner and small business
      owner spends nearly their entire yearly income every year.
      The rich invest their money in stock or put it in the bank.
      Their money becomes stagnant. The important thing
      about this difference is that wage earners and small
      business owners spend all their money quickly. Every middle
      class dollar of earned income could easily be passed around
      7 times in the course of a year. If the average taxpayer pays
      15 cents of income tax on every dollar of earned income...
      the government will also get the equivalent of the entire dollar
      as income tax revenue by the end of the year.
      Each and every dollar in circulation gets spent 8 times and
      the government gets to spend it once every year. Get it?
      It gives the government huge cash flow benefits.
      The government gets to spend all the money in circulation
      once every year to pay its bills.
      That is why middle class wealth is essential
      to having a strong economy. Simple.
      EASY PEASY
    • Fred H.  •  Beverly Hills, United States  •  28 days ago
      Sitting here in FL all I can say is we are getting carpet bombed with Romney and Gingrich ads 24/7. ALL negative. Most of them are accurate too. As a moderate - what am I to think of these gentlemen in November?
    • Bob  •  Washington, United States  •  28 days ago
      Shouldn't we wait until more than 4 states are heard from?
      I like Romney from this group of 4, but how are the people in
      the other 46 states feeling? Shouldn't they have a say?
    • Pacman  •  28 days ago
      Media polls are just another way of trying to support one political candidate over another.
    • mightythor  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  28 days ago
      I still don't understand why Gingrich's victory in SC is considered an upset. Who out there actually expected a Yankee from Massachusetts to win a primary in SC?
    • Wells  •  28 days ago
      Wow, CBS and ABC just reported they are in a tie. I guess you can make the polls say whatever you want them to, depending on who you poll.
    • Oscar  •  Houston, United States  •  27 days ago
      Don't let the media think for you. Think of what the American Revolutionaries set up for us and ask yourself, "Which candidate would they vote for?"
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