Yesterday saw three national polls and three different leaders in the race for the
Republican presidential nomination. Politico’s Battleground poll (conducted early last week) shows Herman Cain leading Mitt Romney by
two points. CNN’s latest (conducted over the weekend) has Romney narrowly leading Newt Gingrich, with Cain down in third.
Most eye-catching of all is the PPP poll (also conducted over the weekend), which has Gingrich in first
place, followed by Cain and then Romney in third.
These polls do have one thing in common: they’re good news for Newt Gingrich. Whether he’s actually in the lead or not, he’s certainly well ahead of where he was last month. He’s up 13 points on his October showing according to PPP; or up 14 according to CNN. This makes him the latest right-wing candidate to surge to the front – after Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain.
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