Meet the new front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination: Newt Gingrich. Gingrich leads by a wide margin in Iowa, the first state to vote on Jan. 3, and South Carolina, the first state to vote in the South. In Florida, the biggest Jan

Meet the new front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination:
Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich leads by a wide margin in Iowa, the first state to vote on
Jan. 3, and South Carolina, the first state to vote in the South. In
Florida, the biggest January prize, one recent poll puts him ahead by
a runaway margin. In the key primary that follows Iowa, New Hampshire,
the former House speaker is lodged in second place.
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The Gingrich momentum is captured in national polls as well. He topped
the latest national polls taken in late November 7 and that was before
Herman Cain, much of whose support appears to be migrating toward
Gingrich, dropped out of the race. According to Gallup2s most recent
polls, Gingrich rates well ahead of Romney in terms of 3positive
intensity4 of support, and more Republicans view him as an acceptable
nominee than Romney.

There2s still plenty of time for the Gingrich bandwagon to go off the
rails. But the flood of new polling since the weekend reveals the
former House speaker, at the moment, occupies the commanding heights
in almost all the early states that traditionally serve as yardsticks.

Three new polls place Gingrich squarely atop the field in Iowa.

An ABC/Washington Post poll of likely caucus-goers released Tuesday
shows Gingrich with 33 percent, up 15 points over Romney 7 who tied
for second with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.

An automated Public Policy Polling survey of likely caucus-goers
posted Monday night found Romney had slipped to third with 16 percent,
11 points behind Gingrich and just behind Paul.

In South Carolina, where the state of the race has been fluid,
Gingrich leads Romney by 38 percent to 22 percent according to a poll
released Tuesday by Winthrop University. Rick Perry, the Texas
governor thought to have strong appeal in the South, finished a
distant third, with 9 percent. The survey included Cain 7 who pulled 7
percen

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