President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Rick Perry 29% Vs. Romney 20%

Floridians give Texas Gov. Rick Perry a comfortable lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the Florida Times-Union/Insider Advantage poll, the first taken after Monday night’s GOP presidential debate in Tampa.

With strong backing from men and voters younger than 45, Perry holds a 29 percent to 20 percent lead over Romney in the survey of 456 registered Republicans who plan to vote in next year’s primary.

Twenty-one percent remain undecided.

The poll was taken the day after the seven other GOP candidates took repeated debate shots at Perry, now considered the national frontrunner. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

Rick Perry continues as the front-runner and Florida looms as a must win state for Mitt Romney. The media war will be brutal there and will start soon after the start of the new year.