Political blogger has The Huckster in his top five Republican presidential candidates and gaining ground on the others. On the other hand, another blog reports on an Iowa State Fair poll (unscientific) that shows our absentee governor’s many trips to the corn belt haven’t registered much in the population at large just yet. (In truth, Republican caucus voters, many of whom are of a religious right bent that the Huckster knows well how to strum, are more important in the early going than the State Fair crowd.)

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