A very interesting look at Romney’s rise in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina… and at Giuliani’s gradual decline:



Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo writes of them:

You can’t ignore the national numbers. I grant that, though I think there are some decent arguments that they’re based on name recognition and on those who are not most actively engaged in observing the candidates. But the consistency of Romney’s strength in these three states is striking. And we’re getting close enough to the voting and caucusing now that absent any big new facts to shake things up that these trends will continue.

Romney/Huckabee?