Morning Examiner: Romney’s post-Iowa advantage

Unless Mitt Romney vastly under-performs in tonight’s Iowa caucuses, the Republican primary should be over before the Super Bowl.

Six of the seven latest polls out of Iowa (ARG, Insider Advantage, Des Moines Register, Rasmussen Reports, NBC News, and CNN) show Mitt Romney should squeak out a victory in Iowa tonight. Only the Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling shows Ron Paul in the lead. The only real threat to Romney tonight is a late Rick Santorum surge. But even then, Santorum looks too weak in the follow-up states to post a real threat to Romney.