If Mr. Gingrich becomes the nominee, 26 percent of Republican primary voters nationwide said they would enthusiastically support him, 33 percent would support him with reservations and 22 percent said their support would be based on his position as the party's nominee.
Among the few MPs who know both camps well, one claimed that the chancellor had been angered for weeks over his namesake's high-profile campaign against top-up fees, which he supports with reservations.
Instead, 50 percent of white evangelical Republican voters said they would support him with reservations (compared with about a third of other Republican voters), and 17 percent said they would support him only because he was the party's nominee.
Mykie Reidy, who previously organized protests outside Murphy's office, now leads Progress 18, a group with about six hundred active members who support Lamb — with reservations.
More than 4 in 10 said they would "support him with reservations," while 29% said they would back him "enthusiastically".
Forty-two percent of Mr. Bush's supporters across the nation said they supported him with reservations.
Still, nearly 9 in 10 delegates described themselves as supporting Mr. Kerry enthusiastically, with the rest split about evenly between those who were supporting him with reservations or only because he is the likely party nominee.
That tracked with the survey results that found that 48 percent of likely Romney voters in Ohio supported him with reservations or because they dislike Mr. Obama, compared with 51 percent who said they strongly favored him.
Perhaps reflecting the prolonged nature of the Republican nominating contest, more Republican primary voters, 4 in 10, say they will support him but with reservations, while another 18 percent say they will support him only because he is the Republican nominee, and 8 percent say they will not support him.
