CNN South Carolina Poll 1/4-1/5:

[jersdream]

Romney 37%
Santorum 19%
Gingrich 18%
Paul 12%
Perry 5%
Huntsman 1%

just flashed on CNN

 

[harikaried]

Another double digit Ron Paul poll! Their last CNN/Time poll was 12/6..

Romney 37% (+17)
Santorum 19% (+15)
Gingrich 18% (-25)
Paul 12% (+6)
Perry 5% (-3)
Huntsman 1% (+0)

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...ina_republican_presidential_primary-1590.html

 

[bluesc]

Nice!

 

[blazeKing]

Paul surge Paul surge!!

 

[bluesc]

Ron is up 6% in the last month!

 

[freejack]

Let's see those NH numbers now.

 

[bluesc]

Mitt has 40% of independents, Ron has 18% (+/-8.5%).

They also only had a tiny sample of under 50s.

 

[klamath]

Sad numbers.

 

[DRV45N05]

In South Carolina, independents may as well be considered Republicans. Same with Democrats.

 

[randomname]

surging!

 

[Brett85]

The numbers for Santorum and Romney are a lot different than Rasmussen's poll.

 

[sunghoko]

That Romney number seems a bit high. Rasmussen has him 10 points lower at 27%

 

[A. Havnes]

Laughing at Gingrich's drop. Still, how the heck is Santorum getting so high there? Time to expose this guy for the big government creep that he is!

 

[pauladin]

Our goal should be to overtake Gingrich. If Gingrich gets 4th place finishes in NH and SC, it might be a technical knockout for him. Three 4th place finishes. OUCH!


Edit: Actually, Newt might get 5th in NH. Even worse.

 

[hueylong]

12% is not a bad platform to work from. A strong 2nd in NH will help with an even stronger showing in SC.

 

[KramerDSP]

BS poll. No one under the age of 50 was polled. WTF?!?

 

[Havax]

Problem is Gingrich is now under the radar and not a threat. No one is going waste any money in the south attacking him if he's a distant 3rd. I guess we should let Romney and Perry hit Santorum and we should hit Gingrich. Everyone else will hit Romney resulting in us rising and the rest falling...

 

[hillbilly123069]

RIGGED! RIGGED! RIGGED! You know, exit polls were all the rage last election. Why do you suppose they haven't been mentioned at all this year?

 

[braane]

This is a promising poll. If we could get second in South Carolina... it really would be just a Romney Paul race.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

Our goal should be to overtake Gingrich. If Gingrich gets 4th place finishes in NH and SC, it might be a technical knockout for him. Three 4th place finishes. OUCH!

Edit: Actually, Newt might get 5th in NH. Even worse.

I agree, but Gingrich takes votes from Romney. i think we need to hit Romney for being pro-abortion in 2002 and put that up in SC. If we keep focusing on the also-rans and let Romney fly under the radar, he'll get too big of a lead for us to catch him. However, if we beat Romney down to the level of the others, we may just gain ourselves a weaker break out opposition. I mean, imagine a two way race of Paul and Santorum; I would LOVE that.

So we can;t give Romney any more of a lead then he will have because if we waste time and money on also-rans they will be beaten, but they'll only endorse Romney as they leave. In the end we'll fall further behind.