WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney led Rick Santorum by double digits in national polls released Thursday by Rasmussen and Gallup.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who collected a decisive victory in the Arizona GOP primary and a much closer win in Michigan Tuesday, leads the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely Republican primary voters with 40 percent, followed by Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, with 24 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was third with 16 percent and Texas Congressman Ron Paul fourth with 12 percent.