Things are tightening ahead of the New Hampshire Primary in the Suffolk tracking poll of the state, but other numbers show that Romney still has a commanding lead. The Suffolk poll shows Romney down to 33 percent, from a high of 43 percent on Monday and Tuesday of last week.
Other polls from the University of New Hampshire and Public Policy Polling (D) show Romney at 41 percent and 35 respectively, and with the primary on Tuesday, it’s hard to see a scenario where Romney could actually lose the vote tomorrow.
From Suffolk:
For the fifth day in a row, Mitt Romney has fallen in overnight tracking, but lack of movement by second place Ron Paul has insulated a likely Romney victory, according to the latest two-day Suffolk University/7News tracking poll of likely voters in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary…“Mitt Romney’s biggest asset is the large number of candidates in this group that are dividing up the remainder of the vote,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston. “With just a 33 percent stake, he can control his destiny, so long as the others in his group continue to battle each other. So the more people in the group the merrier for Romney.”
The TPM Poll Average puts Romney at 37.8 among GOP voters in the Granite State.
