(Iowa) Romney leads GOP, Thompson moves into second, Guliani continues slide

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

I worry about Huckabee winning Iowa because he's the pug's only marketable candidate, being probably the only one in the pug field that actually believes in God in any meaningful way. Thank goodness he can't raise money! Anyway, he has kept inching up and is now tied with the Ghoul, who continues to slide in Iowa.

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Mitt Romney still leads in Iowa but Fred Thompson, a relative newcomer to the presidential race, has emerged as his nearest competitor in a new Des Moines Register poll of likely Republican caucus participants.

Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani are in a close fight for third place in the Iowa Poll taken over three days last week.

Romney, who has campaigned more often in Iowa than his Republican rivals, is the presidential choice of 29 percent of those who say they definitely or probably will attend the leadoff caucuses.

Support for the former Massachusetts governor is essentially unchanged from an Iowa Poll taken in May, when he was the top choice of 30 percent.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071006/NEWS09/71005048/1001&lead=1

[saltpoint]

1. Slide, Rudy, slide.

The more voters know of Rudy the less they like him.

Not exactly a winning equation for the White House.