Rollins won’t have to. He’ll use the surrogates. The Evangelical network is well organized here, though a bit more fractured due to the internal goings on the last couple of years.
Bob Vanderplatts was on stage with Cain this week. He’s the state version of Huck and was one of Huck’s lead guys. I expect the Huck bloc to be fractured because of it. Steve Scheffler and Kim Lehman, our national committee people, will factor into this too. They have their own following.
As far as Bachmann being Romney’s stalking horse, watch Steve King. If he doesn’t endorse, then there’s problems. He and Bachmann are comrades-in-arms. King would never tolerate being used by Romney, he has way too much to lose.
Pawlenty is working the Straw Poll hard. If he’s renting buses for caucus that won’t surprise me either. His team has already approached me and others to support them. He needs to win Iowa too, and that’s the only card he has to play.