New poll says Gingrich takes lead nationally in the GOP race

[thewiseguy]

Is Newt Gingrich merely the new anti-Romney flavor of the month (see: Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain), or will this particular fad stick?

Last week, with troubles deepening for GOP candidate Herman Cain, several commentators predicted that the former House speaker would be the one to benefit, and those predictions have since been borne out in national polls.

Two new polls released Monday show Mr. Gingrich either leading the field or close to it.

The most recent PPP poll of likely GOP voters shows Gingrich up 13 percentage points in the past month, in the lead at 28 percent. The same poll puts Mr. Cain – who is down five points compared with a month ago – in second at 25 percent, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in third at 18 percent. All the other candidates are in the low single digits.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/1114/Newt-Gingrich-surges-in-polls-as-Cain-slips.-Is-he-the-real-anti-Romney

Cain is going down!

[hifiguy]

1. The republibaggers obviously

have the attention span of canaries.

Newt? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Not as long as the circumstances of his divorces remain on the public record.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Like I've said, he's not stepping ahead..

...the other turds are sinking below him.

[DonCoquixote]

3. Yet we all know

Mitt will win, and worse, that many so called Democrats will support him, either because they think we have gone too far to the right, or that a GOP pushing buttons and blowing up half the world will shock people into going left.

[Initech]

4. This is scary though - the GOP has put us in full on distraction mode w/Cain.

Xtian Taliban warlord Gingrich will be the GOP's nominee - he will be the one they put up against Obama - and that scares the shit out of me. If Newt's elected the fundies have won. :scared:

[spanone]

5. ....newt?

[SoutherDem]

6. Just like a bad penny, he keeps showing up. N/T