As expected, Rick Santorum’s extremely close second place finish in Iowa gives him a noticeable bump in the polls. Gallup’s national tracking poll found Santorum at just 6 percent in its tracking polling from 12/26-1/2. Now, just two days later, with the tracking poll including some post-Iowa numbers, Santorum is up to 11 percent in [...]

No matter what happens tonight in the Iowa caucus, a week from now it will be all about Mitt Romney. After Iowa comes the New Hampshire primary and the winner there is now practically a foregone conclusion. According to Suffolk New Hampshire tracking polling Romney currently has more than twice as much support as anything [...]

Barring some incredibly unusual developments, Mitt Romney is on track to win big in the New Hampshire primary. All recent polls give him a massive double digit lead. The CNN/ORC poll has Romney leading with 44 percent of the vote followed Ron Paul at 17 percent, Newt Gingrich at 16 percent and Jon Huntsman at [...]

Polling for the Republican presidential primary has remained extremely fluid in most of the rest of country, but in New Hampshire Mitt Romney has consistently held a huge lead over the rest of the field. The latest poll from the Boston Globe confirms that Romney is on track to win big in the first primary [...]

While multiple recent polls have found Newt Gingrich leading in dozens of states, Mitt Romney has managed to retain his big lead in New Hampshire. According to the most recent Suffolk/7NEWS (PDF) poll Romney holds an 18 point lead in the race over second place Gingrich. Mitt Romney ……………………………… 38% Newt Gingrich ……………………………. 20% Jon [...]

According to current polling, January is shaping up to be a tough month for Mitt Romney. There are four contests in January: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida. Romney currently leads only in New Hampshire, while Newt Gingrich has a double digit lead in the other three states. But the Republican primary calendar in [...]

The important conservative paper, the New Hampshire Union Leader, has decided to endorse Newt Gingrich in the Republican presidential primary. The endorsement of the Union Leader could help cement Gingrich’s standing as the current Mitt Romney alternative in the field. From the editorial: Newt Gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate. But Republican primary [...]

Mitt Romney currently holds the lead in four of the early primary states according to new polling from CNN/Time. Romney has a double digit lead over second place Herman Cain in Florida and New Hampshire. Florida New Hampshire Romney 30% Romney 40 Cain 18 Cain 13 Gingrich 9 Paul 12 Perry 9 Huntsman 6 Paul [...]

With roughly three months until the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney is currently holding a solid lead in the state. A new poll from Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College has Romney with 38 percent, followed by Herman Cain at 20 percent and [...]

After the usual jockeying for position, it looks like the Republican Presidential primary calendar is finally starting to take shape in ways that require still-undeclared candidates to get in or miss the train. Last Friday, in an attempt to be the first large population state with a primary, Florida broke the Republican Party’s primary rules [...]