Thompson Latest Candidate to Move Essentially His Whole Effort to Iowa, Indicating He's in Big Trouble

    Marc Ambinder is reporting that Fred Thompson, following in the footsteps of several second-tier Democrats, is moving virtually his entire effort to Iowa next week. This is obviously not a good sign for his campaign.
    With Mike Huckabee moving into a clear lead in Iowa, it's pretty apparent that it's Huckabee who's executing the strategy of locking up the conservatives in the party that Thompson had hoped to carry out. If Huckabee wins Iowa, Thompson is virtually finished. So, Thompson is headed to the Hawkeye State -- not so much to win it -- but to try to go after Huckabee and hand the state back to Romney, thereby preserving his own viability down the line.
    To do that, he'll have to go very negative against Huckabee. In the long run, that's not good for his campaign either.