Gallup Has the GOP Race: Romney, Perry, Palin

|| Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. ||

Gallup Poll:

 Although Mitt Romney has been the GOP frontrunner for quite some time now,

He is certainly not running away with the Republican presidential nomination.

Polls shows the race to be a tight one between Romney, Rick Perry and Sarah Palin.

Mitt Romney is the leader for the GOP nomination among the current field of official candidates, supported by 27% of Republicans, compared with 18% for Michele Bachmann. However, Rick Perry would essentially tie Romney, with Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani close behind, in a scenario in which all three of these undecided candidates entered the race.

Gallup:

1. Mitt Romney – 17%
2. Rick Perry – 15%
3. Sarah Palin – 12%
4. Michele Bachmann – 11%
5. Rudy Giuliani – 11%

Interestingly, when Palin and Giuliani are removed from the poll,

Romney surges to 23%,

While Perry ticks up slightly to 18%.

Which again hints that the race is Romney versus the field.