I assume the idea is to have the runner-up be a nobody, rather than someone like gingrich. heck, santorum is virtually unknown nationally. how can this guy pull 25% or whatever in iowa?
Unknown? The knock on him has been whether he can get the votes, not his experience or conservativism. He knocked it out of the park in Iowa.
He just got way more ‘known’ and is the frontrunner right now.
Well, Huckabee was an unknown who took IA by a much larger margin in ‘08. So there’s certainly a historical precedent for this sort of thing.