Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney may have the New Hampshire primary all but sewn up, but there are definite cracks beginning to show in his armor. The latest polls released on Sunday by Suffolk University show that Romney's advantage over Ron Paul, who is in second place, has narrowed down 4 more percentage points in the last few days.
On Tuesday of last week, Romney's percentage of the likely vote was literally double that of Paul's. By Sunday, Romney still held a smaller yet still formidable lead, of 35 percent to Paul's 20 percent.
Here are some of the details surrounding the shifts in public support that are occurring as New Hampshire prepares to vote on Tuesday.
* Despite his 8 percent overall drop in the polls since last week, Romney is still expected to win the New Hampshire primary handily, and still retains a lead in South Carolina polling, which is where the next primary takes place.
* The candidate who came within 8 votes of taking the Iowa Caucus win away from Romney, Rick Santorum, has experienced a drop in polling numbers as well. Santorum is currently in fifth place among the candidates according to Suffolk University's numbers, having dropped another percentage point after the Republican debates on Saturday. Less than a week ago Santorum was sitting in third place in the New Hampshire polling.
* Fellow candidate Jon Huntsman, who garnered only 1 percent of the vote in the Iowa Caucus, has come from behind to take what may turn out to be a more secure position in the middle of the pack. Huntsman, whose campaign largely depends on a strong showing in New Hampshire, is currently drawing 9 percent of the likely voters in the state, according to ABC News' The Note.
* New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner is predicting a big turnout for the primary, according to USA Today. Gardner reportedly has said that he expects upwards of 250,000 people to cast their vote in the Republican portion of the primary.
* New Hampshire currently has approximately 232,000 registered Republican voters in the state, but it is the number of undeclared or independent voters that could turn out to be pivotal, as they are allowed by state law to vote for either Democratic or Republican candidates. New Hampshire currently is estimated to have some 313,000 undeclared or independent voters.
* While approximately 63 percent of the state's likely voters have either definitely decided on a candidate or are leaning strongly towards a particular candidate, the other 37 percent of those surveyed said that they are still undecided, according to Sunday's University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll quoted by the Miami Herald's Politics Wires.
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