Florida voters prepared to head to the polls Tuesday as Mitt Romney seeks to tighten his grip on the Republican presidential nomination.
Since Newt Gingrich’s win in South Carolina 10 days ago, the GOP race has turned increasingly hostile, with candidates employing harsh rhetoric against one another.
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Although Gingrich’s win seemed to have reset the race, since then polls show Romney as a clear frontrunner in the Sunshine State.
In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Mitt Romney leads Newt Gingrich by a 43-29 percent margin among Republican likely voters in Florida. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum both bank 11 percent of the survey’s respondents.
According to the survey released Monday, Romney leads Gingrich by 5 points among white evangelicals, takes the Tea Party vote by 5 points over his chief rival and wins self-described conservatives by 9 percentage points in the poll of 529 likely GOP voters. The margin of error is 4.2 percent.