“Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, has assembled an unrivaled operation for the event: a statewide corps of 60 “super-volunteers,” who have been paid between $500 and $1,000 per month to talk him up; a fleet of buses; more than $2 million in television ads in Iowa; a sleek direct-mail campaign; and a consultant who has been paid nearly $200,000 to direct Romney’s straw poll production, which will include barbecue billed as the best in the state.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/09/AR2007080902379_pf.html
Romney is trying to buy his way to the nomination starting with the Iowa straw poll. Problem is he is trying to beat no one as both Guiliani and McCain dropped out of the poll back in June. That leaves the second tier candidates for Romney to rough up. Not much of a victory. Maybe Romney should spend more time deciding what he actually believes in since he seems to change his views on an hourly basis.