It is good news if you consider that he is ahead in the early primary states and by year’s end will have $100 million in the bank to spend running tv ads ahead of super Tuesday. Look, don’t get me started. Folks in Nebraska and North Carolina haven’t the fainest idea of who Mitt Romney is. They will most likely only realize there is a primary coming up when they see the headlines about romney winning in Iowa and new Hampshire. We are way ahead of schedule here. It reminds me of 2004 when howard dean had a 20 point advantage in the national polls for most of the year, kerry was running third, but after Iowa everything changed and he only won in vermont. We still have a long way to go.
Like Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina? Thanks to the reshuffling of the schedule, those are all now "early primary states" (and not just SC). Romney trails Thompson in all three -- Mitt's strategy of banking everything on Iowa and New Hampshire doesn't take into account the reality of the new schedule.