Mitt Romney Out Front By 15 Points in PPP Poll of Illinois

Illinois will have 69 delegates at the Republican convention in Tampa -- and a poll released on Monday finds that Mitt Romney has a large lead in the primary set for Tuesday.

A poll of likely primary voters from Public Policy Polling, a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, finds Romney taking 45 percent, followed by Rick Santorum with 30 percent, Newt Gingrich with 12 percent and Ron Paul with 10 percent.

The poll of 506 likely Illinois Republican primary voters was takenMarch 17-18 and had a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percent.