DES MOINES, Iowa – In the race for Iowa, Republican presidential candidates are largely shifting from persuading people to support them to mobilizing them to actually come out and vote them in Tuesday’s caucuses.
None of the candidates has the extensive get-out-the-vote network that helped former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee win in 2008. But Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have strengthened the organizations they had in place for their failed bids four years ago. The cash-strapped others, including Rick Santorum, have more modest efforts and are mostly relying on momentum to carry their supporters to the caucuses on what could be a chilly night.
“This isn’t the Huckabee year,” said Susan Geddes, a socially conservative Iowa activist and top staffer on that Republican’s campaign.
With the race fluid, all the campaigns are working to ensure their backers vote at the caucuses, where turnout of 120,000 would break the record set in 2008. Volunteer
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