Huckabee and Brownback are making headlines today for their poor fundraising, generating almost identical ledes: they are “way behind” but confident of their prospects in the Iowa straw poll nonetheless. This piece on Huckabee goes into more detail, quoting Marc Ambinder, among others:
“The guy doesn’t seem to like fundraising, and if he doesn’t like it, he’s not going to do it,” Ambinder said. “Money is one way to measure support, and if he’s not raising money, then his support, obviously, is not high.”
Still, says Iowa Republican Jim Black, there’s a window of opportunity for Huckabee in Ames, given the absence of Giuliani and McCain and the general GOP “malaise.” Don’t count the guy out, but even a strong finish in the straw poll won’t do much for him if he’s not able to follow it up with a very strong fundraising effort — and we haven’t seen much evidence that he’s capable of that.
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