A slew of new polls are expected to come out of both New Hampshire and South Carolina today. Early reports indicate they will all tell pretty much the same story: Rick Santorum is surging in New Hampshire and South Carolina, but unless Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich drop out, he will not overtake Mitt Romney.

For example, Public Policy Polling reports that in their first night of calls in South Carolina, Mitt Romney is up 10 points on Rick Santorum in South Carolina. Newt Gingrich’s 31% of the vote from late December has apparently all but vanished. But PPP also reports that the race between Romney and Santorum would be much closer if Gingrich and Rick Perry dropped out.