Live from College Station, Texas--a round-up of this morning's must-read stories.

QUESTION OF FAITH IN '08 RACE (Mark Silva, Chicago Tribune) 
Republican Mitt Romney has raised millions of dollars in a bid for the presidency, invested millions more of his own and staked enviable positions in Iowa and New Hampshire. But now he confronts a question that may pose the greatest obstacle to his candidacy—his religion. The fact that Romney, a Mormon, is coming to Texas on Thursday to articulate his vision of "faith in America" is a measure of just how much sway evangelical Christians still hold in presidential voting, particularly the Republican Party's naming of a nominee. 

RELIEF IN SIGHT FOR BESIEGED IOWA VOTERS (Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune) 
Pity poor Larry and Phyllis Olson. He's a registered Republican. She's a declared Democrat. Between the two of them, they need to get a bigger mailbox and disconnect their telephone and doorbell. "We have just been inundated with phone calls," she said. "It's just constant and I imagine it will only get worse." Welcome to the final month of caucus season in Iowa, a time when politics turns into a full-contact sport that intensifies with every day as candidates and their supporters conduct a final drive for support in an event that can make or break a White House bid. 

HOW GIULIANI'S SLIDE IN POLLS COULD UNDERMINE HIS PLAN (Wall Street Journal)
These are perilous times for Rudy Giuliani. The Mike Huckabee boom, combined with a drumbeat of revelations in the media about his personal and business conduct, are threatening to wipe out one of the Republican White House hopeful's most important assets: His lead in the national polls. The former New York mayor was the choice of 25% of Republican-leaning respondents in a new USA Today/Gallup poll. That gives him a mere nine-point lead over former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee, whose support surged to 16% from 6% a month ago. It was Mr. Giuliani's worst showing in the poll all year.

PULPIT WAS THE SPRINGBOARD FOR HUCKABEE'S RISE (Jodi Kantor and David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
Now Mr. Huckabee is running for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, his campaign shaped by his two decades as an evangelical pastor and broadcaster. While he says he is running based on his career in the Arkansas governor’s mansion, not the pulpit, he has grounded his views on issues like abortion and immigration in Scripture, rallied members of the clergy for support, benefited from the anti-Mormon sentiment dogging a political rival and relied on the down-to-earth style he honed in the pulpit to help catapult him in the polls.

PAUL'S CHAOTIC, QUIXOTIC RUN MAY MAKE ITS PUSH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE (Alec MacGillis, Washington Post)
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) has raised more than $10 million for his run for president in the past two months, leaving him well positioned to help swing the outcome of the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire, a state well suited to his libertarian, antiwar platform. And yet it was only late last month that his state headquarters here acquired a basic campaign tool: telephones. 

IN HIGH-TECH WORLD, CANDIDATES STILL TURN TO TV (Joanna Weiss, Boston Globe) 
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama gained early attention and buzz with viral videos, the unsanctioned online ads that seemed to herald a new era for political campaigns. There was the unsolicited love song "Obama Girl" and the "1984" spoof of Hillary Clinton's campaign, widely covered by the news media and heralded as ironic and savvy and modern. But the Obama campaign itself has taken a more conventional approach to mass media, airing millions of dollars worth of television ads, mostly in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. 

PERSONAL SIDE: CANDIDATE'S WORST JOBS (Calvin Woodward, Quad City Times) 
All these years later, Mike Huckabee still avoids touching the glass when he opens a door. He remembers a thankless task at Penney's as a teenager, scrubbing away fingerprints only to have customers smudge the glass all over again. Mitt Romney worked in a sewage pipe on an Idaho ranch when the effluent was still flowing. In Alaska as a post-grad, Hillary Rodham Clinton spooned the guts out of fish. Let it not be said of the presidential candidates that they've never done an honest day's work.