Mitt Romney has opened up a nine-point lead on Newt Gingrich in a new Florida poll released Friday, just four days before the Sunshine State's primary to choose the Republican presidential nominee. The Quinnipiac University survey showed Romney, once seen as a shoo-in to take on Democratic US President Barack Obama, leading 38-29 percent over former House of Representatives speaker Gingrich among likely Republican voters.
Only six percent of those polled were undecided, but 32 percent said they might change their mind by Tuesday, when Florida votes in a winner-take-all race for 50 delegates. A loss in Florida would leave Gingrich's bare-bones campaign with an uphill struggle to reach the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination as the race opens out into multiple states. The latest poll was taken among 580 Republicans who were likely to vote on Tuesday. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
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