Campaign officials with Mitt Romney dismissed former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's endorsement of rival Newt Gingrich yesterday, pointing out that the feisty hockey mom has accused him of being "narrow-minded" and "egotistical."
Palin told Fox News that she would vote for Gingrich if she was a voter in South Carolina, and Gingrich quickly reciprocated by saying he'd place her in his administration if elected.
Rod Benfield, a Romney supporter and volunteer for the York County Republican Party, said yesterday he doesn't find that endorsements have a lot of sway in South Carolina.
"I don't think endorsements work," he said. He admitted that Gingrich has the home field advantage in Saturday's primary, however.
"Newt is from Georgia, our neighboring state, of course that matters," said Benfield, who said voters usually prefer going with the more local candidate.
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All eyes (at least politically minded ones) will be on tonight's GOP debate on CNN at 8 as new polls show Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are on a collision course.
The two are only 10 percentage points apart in a CNN/TIME poll at 33 percent and 23 percent, respectively. Rick Santorum is at 16 percent, the poll states.
But there's more ...
A Rasmussen Reports survey has the two just 3 percentage points apart, with Mitt at 30 percent to Newt's 27 percent, in a new national poll. That's an 11 percent jump for Gingrich, who is launching one conservative rocket after another at his more moderate rival.
