Newt Gingrich has a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney in key swing states and his surging candidacy has started to cut into President Obama’s support in those states, a new poll found.
In a head-to-head Republican matchup, GOP voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania chose Gingrich over Romney by margins ranging from 18 to 27 percentage points, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found.
No one has won the White House since 1960 without carrying at least two of the three swing states.
“Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is no longer just the flavor of the month since his boomlet has now stretched from November into December and voting begins in Iowa in less than four weeks,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
“Gingrich’s surge in the GOP race is accompanied by a better showing among independent voters in a general election race against President Obama, although he still has a ways to go. The president still leads Gingrich in Pennsylvania, but Ohio and Florida are too close to call,” Brown added.
Matching Obama against either Romney or Gingrich shows the President’s weakness, the poll found. In Florida and Ohio, Romney beats Obama by two to three percentage points. In Pennsylvania, Obama edges out Romney.
The Quinnipiac poll comes one day after a CNN/Time poll showed Gingrich is now 13 points up on Romney in Iowa and and a whopping 23 points ahead in two other early voting states: South Carolina and Florida.
The stunning rise of Gingrich’s candidacy from near-dead status has prompted some Romney backers to call for the former Massachusetts governor to begin to fight back — and make use of his commanding fund-raising edge over the former House Speaker, the Daily News has reported.
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