He’s still spinning for Rudy:
The result in Iowa could not have been better for Giuliani tactically. Romney has been injured. Huckabee won, but did not apparently win by a huge margin, and there won’t be many other states where evangelicals make up fully three-fifths of the primary electorate.
My italics. Huckabee beat Romney by nine points in a very crowded field. He got ten times the vote of Rudy. That was a huge margin of victory, however you look at it. The final polls showed a three-point lead. He tripled it. JPod may be right about the next few weeks in general, though I doubt it. But you can’t spin away this victory as anything but huge. Benen comments:
I’ve seen blind optimism, but this is ridiculous.
The Dish 