Robert Costa at NRO has the story. If Santorum pulls off the surprise in Iowa, somebody will need to tell the nuts-and-bolts story of how he did it. I don’t think anybody has worked Iowa any harder or with a greater ratio of organization to money since Jimmy Carter in 1976. That’s a compliment: Carter may have been a bad president — Santorum will be a good one — but his 1976 Iowa campaign was a model of dogged, effective retail politics. The personal touch matters, and Santorum has exhibited it, to the nth degree.
