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13 February 2012
Rick Santorum is crushing Mitt Romney in Romney's home state of Michigan among Republicans 42% to 18%
A GOP presidential poll released this morning shows Michigan-born Mitt Romney is trailing in his home state, losing to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum by 6 percent.
The margin becomes larger – 42 percent for Santorum to 18 percent for Romney – among self-identified Republicans, who also support Newt Gingrich over the Michigan native. Gingrich was the choice of 24 percent of the respondents.
The polling, conducted Saturday and Sunday by American Research Group, surveyed 600 people by telephone, asking who they would cast ballots for if the 2012 Republican presidential preference primary were being held today. The research firm then listed the names, rotating the identities of Ron Paul, Gingrich, Romney and Santorum. Paul captured 11 percent of the vote to come in fourth among those who consider themselves Republicans.
Santorum is also leading in PPP polling
Rick Santorum's taken a large lead in Michigan's upcoming Republican primary. He's at 39% to 24% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Ron Paul, and 11% for Newt Gingrich.
Santorum's rise is attributable to two major factors: his own personal popularity (a stellar 67/23 favorability) and GOP voters increasingly souring on Gingrich. Santorum's becoming something closer and closer to a consensus conservative candidate as Gingrich bleeds support.
Santorum's winning an outright majority of the Tea Party vote with 53% to 22% for Romney and 10% for Gingrich. He comes close to one with Evangelicals as well at 48% to 20% for Romney and 12% for Gingrich. And he cracks the 50% line with voters identifying as 'very conservative' at 51% to 20% for Romney and 10% for Gingrich.