Recent polls show former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum heading to a close second or maybe even winning the Iowa Caucuses tomorrow night.

The sudden surge coming at exactly the right time for Mr. Santorum’s prospects, but it may come too late for him to have any chance of raising enough money to see his way through the rest of the GOP nomination.

Here in New York for example–long the ATM of both parties, there are only eight donors who have given to Mr. Santorum’s campaign in the last half of last year, according to campaign finance records.

There are, needless to say, a far remove from the high-roller crowd familiar to most GOP candidates, like those that Read More