ARG released a rather bizarre poll in South Carolina yesterday. The poll shows Mitt Romney essentially tripling his support from 9% a month ago to 26% and Fred Thompson losing half of his support going from 21% to 10%. To put the ARG poll in perspective, no other poll going back to 2007 has shown Romney in second place let alone first in South Carolina. And no poll since June has had Fred Thompson in anything but first or second, yet this poll lists Thompson as 4th, five points behind McCain. Put simply this ARG poll looks to be a clear outlier.

Rasmussen Reports released a new SC survey last night taken over the exact same time as ARG's which shows dramatically different results and has Thompson in a four point lead over Giuliani, 24 - 20. Romney does see his support move from 10 to 15 which is a significant jump, and not counting the 26 result from ARG, the 15 for Romney is his highest number to date in South Carolina.

So it looks like the Romney campaign is seeing some positive movement in the Palmetto State, but the idea he leads Fred Thompson by 16 points in South Carolina is laughable.