That former fatty is smart as sin. From what we know, Iowans seem like just the types to tune in to The Tonight Show on its first night back from the big writer’s strike. Don’t they? Percentage-wise, Huckabee will be able to reach more of those hayseeds in a single guffawing appearance with that stilted Leno than he ever could spending a long cold snowy night knocking on the doors of kissing cousins.

Oh, and to our one fan in Iowa, we don’t mean you.