Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney overtook former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in a new Buckeye State poll released tosday morning by Quinnipiac University.
Romney, according to the survey, leads the Republican field with 27 percent -- nine points ahead of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and 10 points ahead of Gingrich.
The general election, where President Barack Obama will meet the winner of the GOP nomination, figures to be a much closer contest. Quinnipiac found an Obama-Romney match to be a statistical tie, putting Obama at 44 percent and Romney at 42 percent.
In the December poll, the Obama-Romney race was at 43-42 percent. Head to head, the incumbent Democrat leads Santorum 48-37, Gingrich 52-38 and Texas Rep. Ron Paul 48-39.
The results show the ever-changing dynamics of a battle in which Romney only recently has cemented his front-runner status by winning the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. Before Gingrich topped last month's poll, Ohio Republicans favored businessman Herman Cain, who has since suspended his campaign.
Gingrich's standing fell after a string of attacks by his primary opponents. Cain left the race after accusations of sexual harassment and infidelity.
"With Ohio being perhaps the most important single state in the country when it comes to the Electoral College math, all indications are that if Romney is the Republican nominee it will be a very, very close contest," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "The president's problem is getting back the voters who voted for him in 2008 but went for John Kasich for governor in 2010. His main obstacle may be that voters say 48-42 percent that Romney is better able to fix the economy."
The poll found that 51 percent disapprove of Obama's job performance, down from 55 percent last month. Asked if Obama deserved a second term, 51 percent said no, down from 53 percent in December.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/01/mitt_romney_tops_republicans_i.html
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