Romney Leads in Iowa Poll as Santorum Gains Before State Caucus
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Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum led the most closely followed poll in Iowa as rivals in the state’s Jan. 3 caucuses pushed their policies on Sunday talk shows.
The Iowa Poll by the Des Moines Register newspaper, released late yesterday, showed Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, with the support of 24 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. Paul, a Texas congressman, had the backing of 22 percent. Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, won 15 percent after a surge in the final two days of sampling.