Politico has a look at the quickly evolving campaign of Mike Huckabee:
“First it was, well nice guy but he doesn’t have a chance of winning,” Huckabee said in a brief interview in his campaign van between stops at a local eatery and a speech at the high school. “Nice guy, he doesn’t have enough money. Nice guy, doesn’t have enough organization. Then it got to be in the place of, well he’s going to do OK in Iowa but that’s as far as it can go. He’ll be a one night stand.”
Huckabee says voters are responding to his ideas. “Regardless of what happens, we’ve proven and I’ve said it since January, the message matters more than the money,” Huckabee said.He added roughly 10 campaign staffers in the last three weeks. Yet his campaign still numbers at 42 paid staffers nationwide – only about half of what Romney has in Iowa alone.
He only has about 15 staffers in Iowa, six in New Hampshire, and six in South Carolina. And he still has no staff in Michigan or Florida, both of which have critical GOP contests in January.
Over the next two weeks, Rollins intends to beef up staffing on the ground in key states as well as canvass Republican circles to hire foreign, domestic, and national security experts.
Hat tip:
Jonathan Martin
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