In economics, the proper term would probably be a "lagging indicator". Another way to put it, gramatically awkward though it might be, would be to call it a "pre-bounce".
Whatever you want to call it, Mitt Romney had a surge in today's Gallup national tracker, despite the fact that virtually all of the respondents in the poll chimed in before the polls closed yesterday in Florida, where Romney swept to a fourteen-point win.
That was the only primary-level polling of the day, but it was plenty noteworthy:
GALLUP (National Tracking): Romney 31, Gingrich 26, Santorum 16, Paul 11
On the general election front, Barack Obama's numbers continue a trend we have seen throughout 2012, which (put simply) is that his numbers look a hell of a lot better than they did in 2011:
NATIONAL (Rasmussen): Obama d. Romney (47-43); Obama d. Gingrich (50-38)OHIO (PPP): Obama d. Santorum (48-42); Obama d. Romney (49-42); Obama d. Paul (48-38); Obama d. Gingrich (51-39)
Some thoughts on Romney inevitability, the president, and what that Ohio poll might mean after the jump.