More third quarter figures, this time from Ron Paul. The anti-war Republican raised just over $5m, up from $2.3m in the preceding quarter. As Politico's Jonathan Martin points out, that's also $4m more than Mike Huckabee - no doubt disappointing for Huckabee considering the raised profile he enjoyed courtesy of those who judged him the winner of August's Iowa straw poll (actually won at great expense by Mitt Romney).
The Economist's Democracy in America blog has more on the Paul-Huckabee tussle, linking to a Gallup poll that ties them on 4% of the vote among Republicans. "Still not very good," it adds. "But keep in mind that [Paul] had to earn every one of those votes despite his dubious ideas."
