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Newt Gingrich's campaign is touting the former Speaker's lead over Mitt Romney in a series of polls in a release to reporters Wednesday morning that touts Gingrich as the winner of Tuesday evening's Republican debate.

The Gingrich camp is playing up a new Quinnipac national poll that shows Gingrich with 26 percent, leading Mitt Romney at 22 percent and Herman Cain at 14 percent. The Speaker is also leading in "positive intensity score," a measure by Gallup that subtracts those who are strongly opposed to a candidate from those who strongly support them. Gingrich's score is 20, compared to 13 for Cain and 11 for Romney.

The blast went out as Gingrich is trying to solidify his position as the clear conservative alternative to Romney - a mantle a number of candidates have tried to hold, but allowed to slip out of their grasp - despite espousing a view on immigration at Tuesday's debate that runs against Republican orthodoxy. 

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