Why is Romney Iowa “frontrunner”

Why is Mitt Romney the “new frontrunner in Iowa”? He’s still behind Ron Paul in the many Iowa polls. He has weak favorability ratings. He’s doing surprisingly well among mainstream FOX-viewing conservatives, but that would also seem to make him vulnerable to a late surge from Perry or Santorum. … Romney has great spinners. I’ve been turned around by one of them myself. But they seem to have let expectations get out of control here. …