order and show patterns. this looks like one of the children's games you have to follow-through the tangle of the lines to the other side. they were in highlights when you went to the dentist. in fact that is exactly what you need to do with the graph. on the left you will see the green line that begins high. that was mitt romney a year ago. he had about 20% and number one in iowa. do you follow that green line and track it through that tangle for most of the year. he held right about there at 20 to 25% in the polls. for most of the year, that is not enough. bachmann and perry and and gingrich and then paul. they were all number in iowa. as of today, mitt romney is stuck around 28% of the polls, but iowa puts him at 23%, good enough for first place. you know what changed? the same number that mitt romney had at the beginning of the year.