The tea leaves are forming a picture for Tuesday’s voting in Florida when Republicans will cast a ballot for their party nominee.
White House hopeful Mitt Romney widened his lead over rival Newt Gingrich to 11 percentage points in Florida, according to Reuters/Ipsos online poll results on Saturday, up from 8 points a day earlier, as he cemented his front-runner status in the Republican nomination race.
With just three days remaining before Florida’s Republican primary, Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, led Gingrich, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, by 43 percent to 32 percent among likely voters in Florida’s January 31 primary, the online poll said.
Florida lets voters cast their ballots early at polling stations or by mail, and 30 percent of the poll respondents said they had done so, compared with 29 percent on Friday.
Romney held a 12-point lead among those who had already voted, and an 11-point lead among those who had not yet voted.
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While I am hoping Santorum can eventually gather steam… right now it does look like Romney is going to win his second contest.