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Ron Paul moves into first with Newt Gingrich in latest Iowa PPP poll
The State Column | Staff | Tuesday, December 13, 2011


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Ron Paul (R-TX), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, tied former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the latest Public Policy Polling poll of Iowa GOP caucusgoers. Mr. Paul garnered 21 percent of the votes to pull even with Mr. Gingrich who earned 22 percent of the votes. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney took third place with 16 percent of the votes.

This is the first Iowa poll to show Mr. Paul in a statistical tie with Mr. Gingrich. Mr. Paul has finished in front of, even with or behind Mr. Romney, but has never tied with the Georgia businessman.



“Newt Gingrich’s momentum is fading in Iowa,” President of Public Policy Polling Dean Debnam said in a PPP press release. “Meanwhile Ron Paul is building an unusual coalition of support for a Republican primary. The big question is: will they really turn out?”

The Paul campaign is doing everything in its power to ensure that this “unusual coalition of support” will turn out for the Iowa GOP caucuses on January 3rd. The Paul campaign has organized a “Christmas Vacation with Ron Paul” program that will deploy 500 youth in Iowa to knock on doors and make phone calls for the Texas congressman.

The Paul campaign has also launched a $1 million ad buy in Iowa. The ad blitz features radio, TV and mail ads. Many of the ads focus on Mr. Paul’s chief rival in Iowa, Mr. Gingrich.

“Whenever I hear Newt try to sweep his Big Government record under the rug, I can hardly help but shake my head,” Mr. Paul said in an email to his supporters Monday.

“If you and I are truly serious about defeating President Obama in 2012 and turning our country around, nominating Newt Gingrich is the absolute last thing the Republican Party should do,” Mr. Paul added.

The Paul campaign’s orchestrated attack on Mr. Gingrich appears to be working, according to the latest Iowa PPP poll. Mr. Gingrich’s lead in Iowa has shriveled from 9 percentage points to 1 percentage point in the latest Iowa PPP poll.

If Mr. Paul goes on to win the Iowa GOP caucuses, one writer at Forbes will be thrilled that he was right. Forbes’ John Thorpe wrote last week that “in one month, Ron Paul will shock the world and win the Iowa Caucuses.” If the latest Iowa PPP poll is any indication, Mr. Thorpe’s prediction may prove to be true.

PPP interviewed 555 likely Iowa GOP caucusgoers from December 11th to December 13th. The Iowa PPP poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.

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