Leaving aside all that can be said for/against Bachmann and Rollins, this is probably not as dumb a move as it appears at first blush.
Rollins ran Huckabee’s ‘08 race in IA. And managed his surprising win there. IIRC,that was attributable to the ‘Christian Right’ vote. Bachmann would appeal to that same constituency that shows up religiously, as it were, for the caucuses. Rollins is apparently plugged into them better than anyone else.
That’s EXACTLY what this is about. You all have to understand what happened here in Iowa last time.
I was organizing for Thompson in my county and did fairly well. I did mine the more traditional way of ID’ing likely voters. Understand I’m the 6th generation in my county and have been working in the party for about 10 years. If someone’s organizing I will generally hear about it.
Not with Huckabee. He organized thru the churches and pastors. It was mostly by word of mouth and volunteers and cost very little money. And caucus nite we walked in to a crowd 4 times as big as we ever had. Huck had got out voters that had never voted in a caucus and no one heard a word of it.
That’s what Bachmann is after. It’s not a bad strategy.