Team Huckabee quiere crecer más

David Paul Kuhn nos cuenta en Politico.com cuales son los planes de Mike Huckabee para seguir siendo viable después de Iowa. El artículo incluye palabras de Chip Saltsman, el campaign manager, y del veterano estratega Ed Rollins, una leyenda en esto de la política electoral que se ha unido recientemente al carro de Mike Huckabee, en lo que se ve como un síntoma de mayor profesionalización de su aventura presidencial. Huckabee ramps up game in early states

(...) Determined to prove he’s more than a political “one-night stand,” Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will make his largest ad buys in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina this week.

The former Arkansas governor also plans to send out his first mailing to voters in Iowa and is ramping up the numbers of paid staffers in a campaign that until recently relied almost exclusively on volunteers.

While declining to say exactly how much the campaign would spend on the ad buys in the three early-contest states, national campaign manager Chip Saltsman put the figure at around “at least” several hundred thousand dollars. (...)