Romney leads Gingrich by double digits in Florida. In other news Mitt sends thank you note to Sarah Palin.

Courtesy of First Read:

Romney leads Newt Gingrich by 15 points, 42 percent to 27 percent in the crucial state. Rick Santorum is third with 16 percent, followed by Ron Paul with 11 percent. Just 4 percent said they were undecided. 

"The bottom line in all this is Romney's sitting in the driver's seat going into Tuesday," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College, who conducted the poll. 

If Romney pulls off a victory of that magnitude, he could be on a glide path to the nomination. But there are warning signs for the Republican Party that the primary has taken a toll on Romney and the rest of the GOP field. Each of the candidates struggles in a general-election matchup with President Barack Obama in this swing state, especially with independents.

I was joking about that thank you note, but you have to admit she certainly didn't do Newt any favors.

By the way did you notice this part? "there are warning signs for the Republican Party that the primary has taken a toll on Romney and the rest of the GOP field." In other words, despite protestations to the contrary by that whack-job in Wasilla, this long protracted primary has hurt the eventual candidate Romney and made him just that much easier for Obama to defeat in November.

And Palin's continued beating of the war drums to encourage Gingrich to fight to the last breath (Which, from the looks of him, usually struggles to escape right after he climbs the stairs to his bedroom each night.), is to encourage this contest to go on until Romney is so battered and bruised that he will simply wave a white flag and crumple in defeat five minutes into his first debate with the President.

See you don't have to wear a fright wig and sit on the shores of a dead lake in Wasilla to be a political pundit.  And my information has the added value of actually being correct.