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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Republican front-runner Mitt Romney surged on Friday toward an apparent easy win in Nevada, with a new poll showing him beating rival Newt Gingrich by a 2-to-1 margin on the eve of the state’s presidential nominating contest.
Romney is seeking his second consecutive victory on Saturday in the state-by-state Republican race after seizing momentum earlier in the week by crushing Gingrich in Florida.
A new Public Policy Polling survey showed Romney with support from 50 percent of likely voters in Nevada’s caucuses. Gingrich was at 25 percent, Representative Ron Paul at 15 percent and former Senator Rick Santorum at 8 percent in the poll of 937 likely Republican caucus voters on Wednesday and Thursday. The margin of error was 3.2 percentage points.
Its results were similar to a Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper poll on Thursday that gave the former Massachusetts governor a 20-point lead in Nevada.
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