Poll: Conservatives Settle For Romney

A new Gallup poll shows conservatives settling for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. The poll of sample of 479 Republican and Republican-leaning independents showed that Romney was the most “acceptable” of the Republican candidates to 59% of conservative voters. He was followed by Newt Gingrich (51%) and Rick Santorum (50%).

Romney did much better than the rest of the field with moderate Republicans, with 59% of them finding him acceptable as the candidate. Gingrich was acceptable to only 36% of them, and 35% found Romney acceptable.