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Filed under: Mike Huckabee

The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler has an excellent story today detailing the growing pains of the post-Iowa Huckabee campaign. The piece deftly highlights the charms of his populist campaign, while also providing strong evidence for why he is highly unlikely to ultimately be the GOP nominee. Huckabee's folksy, snuff-using campaign manager, Chip Saltsman, delivers most of the yucks. Here's an anecdote about the campaign's Michigan misadventures:

It was barely 24 hours after the New Hampshire polls closed, but Michigan was less than a week away. The campaign was focused on South Carolina and had almost no infrastructure in Michigan. Polls showed Mr. Huckabee had a shot there, so Mr. Saltsman decided to make an effort.

He sent Shane Henry, a 28-year-old Arkansas lawyer who had helped get Mr. Huckabee on state ballots. Mr. Henry, whose father-in-law is close to Mr. Huckabee, sold some property in September, making enough to forgo a paycheck for a while. He signed on as a volunteer, and calls the timing of his windfall "a God thing."

He was hardly the ideal organizer. Asked what Mr. Henry knew about Michigan, Mr. Saltsman says he knew where it was. Mr. Henry, asked about his experience in organizing events, says, "I was student-body president at my university."

But read the whole damn thing.