Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich

Two national polls released Monday showed former Representative Newt Gingrich of the lower level up to double digits in the last week, replacing deempresario Herman Cain at the top with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

A CNN / ORC International conducted from November 11-13 shows 22 percent of Republicans and independents who inclinanrepublicano saying that now support Gingrich. Errorde a margin of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points, which puts on a tie estadísticocon Gingrich Romney, the favorite for a long time. In a survey of voting PolíticaPública also released Monday, Gingrich went to his head, a total percentage 10puntos ahead of Romney.

The data suggest that the presence of Gingrich at the top level comes at the expense of the entrepreneur Herman Cain, whose support dropped 11 points porcentualesen CNN polling and five points according to PPP amid sexual harassment allegations made ​​in the last two weeks.

To support other candidates has fluctuated only Romney has consistently remained at the top level. In the last five months of PPP surveys, support Romney has shifted by only 2 percentage points. DeCNN In the survey, Romney polled to 35 percent when the first campaign off the ground in June.

Newt Gingrich