Could Palin turn Huckabee into frontrunner?

[Mr. Morden]

Huckabee has been doing better in PPP's polls than he has in other polls, and because PPP releases like a million polls a week, that tends to influence our perceptions.  I'd say Huckabee and Romney are probably very close to being tied nationally.

It doesn't really matter which one is ahead, because national polls don't matter.  Romney starts out as the frontrunner in NH and, if he runs, Huckabee starts out at as the frontrunner in Iowa.  They both have weaknesses that could lead to them losing either of those states though, so what really matters is one's assessment of whether or not that'll happen, and what would happen next.