Mitt Romney under-whelmingly won the Maine Caucuses on Saturday, but that news was overshadowed by Whitney Houston’s death. Although now it seems that Ron Paul could pull a Rick Santorum and win Maine after all. Here are the polls that came out during the weekend. Santorum has stormed into the lead in one recent national poll.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY – PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (PPP): Santorum 38, Romney 23, Gingrich 17, Paul 13
NATIONAL (Fox News): Romney 33, Santorum 23, Gingrich 22, Paul 15
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 34, Santorum 22, Gingrich 18, Paul 10
GEORGIA (Landmark/Rosetta Stone–R): Gingrich 35, Santorum 26, Romney 16, Paul 5
TENNESSEE (American Research Group): Santorum 34, Romney 27, Gingrich 16, Paul 13
GENERAL ELECTION – PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (Fox News): Obama d. Romney (47-42); Obama d. Paul (48-38); Obama d. Santorum (50-38); Obama d. Gingrich (51-38)
NATIONAL (Rasmussen): Obama d. Santorum (46-42); Obama d. Romney (50-40)
FLORIDA (Rasmussen): Obama d. Santorum (47-46); Obama d. Romney (47-44)
The GOP caves and there is one more win. It is looking like the House will extend the payroll tax cuts without their demands for offsets.
And the NJ Senate passes marriage equality, 24-16.
But Fatty Mc FatFat already said he would veto it and instead leave it up to the Oompa Loompas of south jersey to decide.
Pew Poll Just up on NPR:
Obama leads the three Republican presidential candidates Pew tested him against (what, no Ron Paul?) in head-to-head general-election match-ups.
Obama led Romney by eight points in the recent poll compared with a two-point lead in November. The president led Santorum by 10 points and Gingrich by 18 points.
Yeah. President Obama is now trading at $0.60 at both Iowa and Intrade. That is probably close to a ceiling that will hold for a while. Around the Republican convention it will come down a few points, then, barring anything crazy, will climb from then until November.
Hey DD–Romney in attendance tonite at standing room only crowd at the Convention Center in Arizona–the kids can’t get in—they think he’s going to pull it off.
It seems that our RWNJ brethren at DP have copied our week in politics updates.
And if you really want to be scared, Don Ayotte has a website up.