Michelle Malkin’s HOT AIR Reports Bad News For Gingrich Campaign, Powerful Upswing For Romney
January 16, 2012
MIchelle Malkin
FOX News and Michelle Malkin are reporting new polling numbers this morning which show Mitt Romney winning some 40% of the NATIONAL Primary vote now. In other words voters are starting to make up their minds.
Rick Santorum, enriched by the support of Republican Evangelical activists and funders is still in the hunt, and is marching alongside Congressman Ron Paul. Huntsman of course is out, and Rick Perry is hanging on in South Carolina, truthfully though, already disqualified by poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. Newt Gingrich’s ship is the one that most resembles the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, because his campaign is clearly running aground according to polling of registered voters. He has lost the original shine of the debates and now voters seem to think he is just too negative:
This from Michelle Malkin and Hot Air:
GOP voters perceive Newt Gingrich as running the most negative campaign in this year’s Republican presidential contest, according to a new poll on Monday.
Twenty-nine percent of registered, Republican voters said Gingrich’s campaign has been the “nastiest” this cycle, according to the national survey released by Fox News.
Newt Gingrich Thought That HE Would Be The Likely Nominee
Mitt Romney leads the field for positive campaign perception at 27 percent.
Don’t forget that just four weeks ago, Gingrich was winning plaudits for his insistence on running a positive campaign. That’s quite a turnaround, and an indication of just how much backfire Gingrich has taken with the Bain attacks.
FOX NEWS polling looks like this:
Follow @TKC_USRomney has the backing of 40 percent of Republican primary voters. He’s followed by Santorum at 15 percent, Gingrich at 14 percent and Paul at 13 percent. Rick Perry captures 6 percent and Jon Huntsman 5 percent.
Voters Feel Romneys Hold Most Positive Future For The Country
Romney’s support is up 17 percentage points since last month’s Fox poll. Gingrich — who led last month — has dropped by 22 points.
Among voters who are part of the Tea Party movement, Romney (30 percent) leads Santorum (21 percent) and Gingrich (18 percent). White evangelical voters give the edge to Romney over Santorum — 32 to 23 percent.
Twenty-nine percent of primary voters say Santorum is the candidate best described as a true conservative. That’s nearly twice as many as pick Romney (15 percent), Gingrich (14 percent) or Paul (13 percent).
Even Tea Party Pick Romney Over Santorum 30% to 21%.
Still, another trait is more important to GOP primary voters — electability. Fully 80 percent say it is “very” important their nominee can beat Barack Obama, compared with 42 percent who give the same weight to being a true conservative.
And by a wide margin Romney is seen as the one with the best chance of beating Obama: 63 percent say he’s the candidate most likely to do it. That’s seven times as many as say Gingrich (9 percent).
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