Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has a secret weapon -- a keyboard army plugging away on his behalf. Of note, Huckabee recognizes this talented pool of volunteers and is working with them to get his message out directly to the American people.
As reported yesterday by The Nation:
Mike Huckabee huddled with a smattering of conservative bloggers today, in a Des Moines hotel room packed with reporters and television cameras.
"The greatest secret weapon we have is over 700 dedicated bloggers to get our message out to people," said Huckabee, who credited conservative web activists -- the "RightRoots" -- for catapulting him past better funded establishment candidates. "We don't have the kind of money that other campaigns have," he explained, "a lot of the reason is because of the 700 bloggers out there pounding away on their keyboards and hitting the send button and making magic happen."
How far we've come. How far we will go before it's all over.
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Huckabee's bloggers
What's interesting about the number of bloggers Huckabee claims is there's no way they are political bloggers, which means much of what they write is going on under the radar.
There's a significant number of social conservative communities that fit perfectly with the Huckabee campaign - home-schoolers, evangelical moms, and evangelical church blogs.
It's a wildly influential and tight-knit group, and I think he may be on to something when he says it's his secret weapon.
If he wins Iowa, it would be interesting to track his volunteer enthusiams through those social blogs.
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