A new snap poll of the Georgia Republican primary shows former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose district was in the state, leading ahead of Super Tuesday’s vote. Gingrich gets 38 percent of those Republican primary voters polled, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney see 26, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is at 20 and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) gets seven. From Rasmussen’s analysis:
Georgia remains the only state Rasmussen Reports has surveyed since South Carolina in January that Gingrich is ahead in. The former congressman from Georgia won the January 21 South Carolina Primary but has trailed Romney and Santorum since then.
Sixty percent (60%) of Georgia primary voters are certain of their vote already, but 33% say they still could change their minds. Six percent (6%) have no initial preference yet.
Seventy percent (70%) expect Romney to be the eventual Republican nominee. That’s up 16 points from the previous survey. Twelve percent (12%) each predict that Santorum or Gingrich will emerge as the winner. That’s a nine-point drop for Santorum and no change for Gingrich from the earlier findings.
But while 38% think Romney would be the strongest candidate against President Obama, nearly as many (36%) feel that way about Gingrich. Nationally, Romney is seen as the strongest candidate by a wide margin.
The TPM Poll Average of all public polling shows Gingrich maintaining a lead in Georgia.
