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It's a flash thing, so I can't imbed it (or at least I don't know how to if I can), but check out the far right side of the the chart found here, which tracks candidate support in the various polls:
10 days ago, Romney had a lead over Huckabee, and he's now down over 10 points. The curve, though, shows such an incredibly steep rise and fall for them. Nothing gradual about that at all. I guess those Romney supporters weren't that firmly in his camp or didn't like his Mormon speech, because that dude is tanking. Considering the lead he once had in Iowa and all that he has invested in the state, if Romney loses, I can't imagine he'll recover.
Far less steep are the curves on the Democratic side in Iowa:
Still, though, they spell big trouble for Hillary, at least in Iowa -- maybe more because they signal a systematic fall for her, rather than a knee jerk reaction to a single event or something. She's in a trick box -- if she, like Guiliani, had never placed any significance on Iowa, she could lose it with impunity. Because she's invested so much time and money in it, though, it looks awful if she loses. If this were happening a few months ago, she could just bag the state and take the wind out of Obama's sails when he wins, but it's probably too late for that now. She's invested in the state, and a loss there could have a snowball effect -- at least that's what I'm hoping...
10 days ago, Romney had a lead over Huckabee, and he's now down over 10 points. The curve, though, shows such an incredibly steep rise and fall for them. Nothing gradual about that at all. I guess those Romney supporters weren't that firmly in his camp or didn't like his Mormon speech, because that dude is tanking. Considering the lead he once had in Iowa and all that he has invested in the state, if Romney loses, I can't imagine he'll recover.
Far less steep are the curves on the Democratic side in Iowa:
Still, though, they spell big trouble for Hillary, at least in Iowa -- maybe more because they signal a systematic fall for her, rather than a knee jerk reaction to a single event or something. She's in a trick box -- if she, like Guiliani, had never placed any significance on Iowa, she could lose it with impunity. Because she's invested so much time and money in it, though, it looks awful if she loses. If this were happening a few months ago, she could just bag the state and take the wind out of Obama's sails when he wins, but it's probably too late for that now. She's invested in the state, and a loss there could have a snowball effect -- at least that's what I'm hoping...
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