Rasmussen recently reported Mitt Romney had support from 25 percent of likely Iowa caucus-goers, compared to 19 percent for Fred Thompson, 18 percent for Mike Huckabee, 13 percent for Rudy Giuliani, and 6 percent for John McCain.  Statistially, Mike Huckabee is now tied for 2nd place in Iowa.  If a presidential candidate can win the Iowa caucuses, it can often catapult them into the Presidency. In addition, Mike Huckabee is ranked nationally at 8%, which is only 5% behind Mitt Romney.

The reason that I am writing about this in my blog as that it says something about money and American politics.   What is surprising about these poll numbers is that Mike Huckabee has only spent 1.6 million dollars on his presidential campaign thus far and Mitt Romney has spent $52.8 million dollars on his campaign.

Governor Huckabee has developed a reputation for being hard honest, hardworking, eloquent and likeable.  He is running a campaign built on security, faith, family and prosperity. Money can corrupt public life and often causes elected officials to fail in their calling to serve the American people.  Mike is building a campaign that could win without huge amounts of money.  I haven’t seen something like that hold true in American politics in a long time.  Hopefully we can see something like this happen more often - from both sides of the isle.