HALPERIN'S TAKE ON GOP RACE

If Huckabee wins Iowa, then it is easy to imagine Romney losing New Hampshire -- which means McCain could win New Hampshire. At which point, the three men who looked most likely to be the GOP nominee only six weeks ago (Romney, Giuliani, and Thompson), would be 0-2 in the first-in-the-nation contests. At which point, we would have have more of a wide-open situation than we have now, which is saying something.

I quote Yogi Berra often ("Prediction is difficult, especially about the future."). In this instance, it is spot on.

All five leading Republicans believe they can win this -- and/but most of their strategists would have agreed a week ago that Romney and Giuliani were the most likely nominees.  We head into the weekend with that assumption obliterated in many minds.