Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in Close Battle for South Carolina

Submitted by Kevin Derby on January 6, 2012 - 9:11am

A Rasmussen Reports poll of likely South Carolina Republican primary voters released on Friday finds that former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts leads in the Palmetto State but hes hearing the footsteps of former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. South Carolina will hold its primary on Jan. 21.

Having held Santorum off by the skin of his teeth in the Iowa caucus on Tuesday, winning by eight votes, Romney takes 27 percent in the poll, followed by Santorum with 24 percent. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich takes third with 18 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas in fourth with 11 percent. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas takes 5 percent and former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah garners 2 percent.

The poll of 750 likely South Carolina primary voters was taken on Jan. 5 and had a margin of error of +/- 4 percent.

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