Fred Thompson may be a late comer to the presidential race but he is apparently making up for lost time in Iowa.The latest Des Moines Register poll shows the former Tennessee Senator surging past Rudy Giuliani into second place:Romney, who has campaigned more often in Iowa than his Republican rivals, is the presidential choice of 29 percent of those who say they definitely or probably will attend the leadoff caucuses. Support for the former Massachusetts governor is essentially unchanged from an Iowa Poll taken in May, when he was the top choice of 30 percent. There’s been a shakeup, however, in the rest of the field. Thompson, a former Tennessee senator who officially entered the race for the Republican nomination a month ago, grabs second place in the new poll at 18 percent. The poll was conducted while he was finishing his second campaign trip to Iowa last week.Mike Huckabee and Giuliani are running neck and neck for third place while John McCain has fallen far behind, back...(Read Full Post)