PPP: Romney leads CA, CO, CT, NH; Huckabee leads IL, PA

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

he's in the 20's in the most populous states - i.e. Romney is a dead man walking.  as soon as the conservative wing of the party picks its candidate, Romney will be losing by 25 points in those states.

there really is no use polling beyond NH until the results of IA are known. 

But, I think if you give me a list of who's running, I can name you the winner of IA.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

It will be interesting to see where Huckabee's support would go to if he didn't run. Obviously his endorsement would become very valuable, but I would think that Palin would be the next candidate for a lot of his supporters.

if they're not already in Palin's camp, they aint gonna be

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Interesting that Thune's been trading 2nd or almost 2nd on intrade and only scored 2% in CT and nowhere else.  A long Romney vs Huckabee race would be interesting and I think competitive if not as entertaining as Romney vs Palin.

IA is the key for Thune, not CT.  If he wins IA, then name recognition is no longer going to be a problem.  Very few had heard of Jimmy Carter prior to his victory in Iowa.