Middle Cheese, my source from 2004 now affiliated with the Romney campaign, noticed Chuck Grassley’s recent comments about Iowa moments ago, taken from a transcript:

SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY: I suppose if that surge continued for the next 23 days, I’d have to change my judgment but at the time I made my statement, maybe a week or two weeks ago, and Huckabee was coming up at that particular time, I looked at it this way, and I still look at it this way, and that is that turnout is very, very important, particularly that this is an early turnout and it comes at holiday time. The governor Romney has many more people in his organization and many more paid people than what Huckabee has, so I figure he’s going to be able to turn people out, and maybe that people like Huckabee but they may not turn out in the numbers, because you’ve got to have machinery to turn them out. Now let me speculate though that Romney could still come out, let’s speculate, a couple points ahead of Huckabee, but expectations might be higher for Romney than they are for Huckabee and Huckabee could go into New Hampshire more of a winner from the public’s frame of mind than maybe even Romney coming out first.

Later in his comments to Andrea Mitchell:

MITCHELL: Do you think Huckabee could go into New Hampshire in a state like that and win? Would you be comfortable with Mike Huckabee as your party’s nominee?
SEN. GRASSLEY: I would be comfortable and there’s one reason I haven’t endorsed — there’s three of our candidates I’d be comfortable with. I’m more practical in this election than I have been in the past.
MITCHELL: Which three, senator?
SEN. GRASSLEY: What?
MITCHELL: Which three of the candidates in–
SEN. GRASSLEY: I’m not going to name them because that’s just like endorsing three and I’m not that silly, but, anyway, I’m happy with them because I want to beat Senator Clinton. Now in regard to what huckabee can do, i would be satisfied with him, but I think the weakness of the Huckabee campaign nationwide is that he doesn’t have $35 million in the bank like a lot of these other candidates might have. That’s going to get you through the television campaigns that you have during, you know, the 20 states between January the 3rd and February the 5th.