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Wait a Minute: Maybe It's Not All About Money
By Mark Willen
Beware conventional wisdom. The so-called pundits are now rushing to conclude that the Huckabee surge in Iowa can't translate into a nomination victory -- that it's fueled by his appeal to Iowa's atypically large number of religious voters and unlikely to be a springboard to the nomination. The front-loaded primary schedule, they say, won't allow Huckabee to build on any momentum from Iowa, and he doesn't have the money or the organization to compete in the 20-plus states voting on Super Duper Tuesday Feb. 5.
But wait a minute. These same pundits were arguing three weeks ago that you couldn't win in Iowa without a highly oiled (and expensive) organization capable of turning out voters for the arcane caucus process. Now they're almost conceding Iowa to Huckabee.
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