By Susan Duclos
Mitt Romney, despite winning the first two caucus/primaries, very narrowly in Iowa and easily in New Hampshire, has slipped in the South Carolina polls, reports The Hill:
Romney is the favorite of 23 percent of South Carolina voters, narrowly edging Newt Gingrich's 21 percent, according to the latest poll from Insider Advantage. Rick Santorum pulls 14 percent of Palmetto state voters, while Ron Paul rounds out the top four with 13 percent. Jon Huntsman's seven percent and Rick Perry's five percent trail the pack.
The numbers could indicate that Gingrich's aggressive strategy - which has included controversial attacks on Mitt Romney's business and abortion records - is gaining him traction by hurting the GOP frontrunner.
This is the first poll in South Carolina that shows this type of slippage for Romney and gain for Gingrich and one poll does not a pattern make, but it is something to watch heading into the January 21, 2012 South Carolina primaries.
South Carolina is known for it's down and dirty, bare-knuckles politics, so this next week of campaign ads, SuperPAC ads and political rhetoric should be entertaining to say the least.
The first punches have already been thrown.....
Armageddon!!!!
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