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  Strong faith supplants strong organization
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News DateWednesday, December 5, 2007 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionBy: Jonathan Martin
Dec 5, 2007 09:00 PM EST

DES MOINES, Iowa — Either Eric Woolson is a master at lowering expectations or Mike Huckabee is taking a gigantic gamble that his skeletal Iowa organization can still somehow earn a victory on Jan. 3.

Sitting in a small office in Huckabee’s downtown headquarters amid a jumble of extension cords and empty juice cartons, Woolson was nonchalantly candid about the fact that the new Iowa front-runner is operating on faith — literally and figuratively.

As Huckabee’s state director, press secretary and one-and-only Iowa strategist, Woolson has 12 field staffers splitting up the state, but he admitted that they don’t yet have all 99 counties organized.

The staffers are recruiting precinct captains, but Woolson conceded that they’ve “got a lot of work to do at the precinct level.”
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