candidates really escalate dramatically their campaigning, their going to small diners and restaurants and visiting people s homes, knocking on doors and talking to the small groups that make up the iowa caucuses. it s important to know that there is a major and tough, tough fight to organize for the iowa caucuses, but it s not the kind of thing you re going to see out in the open because, frankly, folks are looking for needles in hay stacks in iowa. that will break a record. let s take a look at the latest average of the polls taken before the holiday sweekd, and it shows we ve got a new front runner, it s ron paul. he now has moved to just about a point and a half lead over mitt romney. this is an average of several polls taken in the week prior to christmas, and there you see newt gingrich has dropped down to 14%. that s in iowa. not nationally, not in other states, here where it matters most. when you talk about each individual candidate, for ron paul he has by far and aw