Romney increases republican race lead

MITT ROMNEY has a growing lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and almost half of the party’s voters expect him to be the nominee, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Twenty eight percent of Republicans backed the former Massachusetts governor, giving him a lead of eight percentage points over his nearest challenger Herman Cain in the poll, taken last Thursday and Friday.

Romney was five percentage points ahead in a survey on November 7-8.