Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took a major hit to his status as the Inevitable candidate in the Republican presidential primary when he lost Saturday’s South Carolina vote to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Now new numbers indicate that the nearly 13 point victory in SC is boosting Gingrich in Florida as well — a new snap poll conducted Sunday by InsiderAdvantage shows Newt leading the field in the Sunshine State by about almost nine points.
Gingrich gets 34.4 percent of the new survey, Romney second with 25.6 percent, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) third with 13.1 and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum gets 10.7. It’s the first publicly available poll since Gingrich’s blowout performance in South Carolina, but Public Policy Polling (D) also showed movement for Gingrich, tweeting that he and Romney are running neck and neck in their first night of tracking the state.
