Campaign 2008 - Rising Evangelical Tide

by Linda Douglass

Sat. Nov. 17, 2007


DES MOINES -- At a messy desk in the makeshift Iowa headquarters of the Huckabee for President campaign, 32-year-old Matt Reisetter is working the phones. Tall and baby-faced with wheat-blond hair, Reisetter has just come aboard as "director of coalitions." His job: Round up support among the state's born-again Christians. He is on the phone with one of them. "I had no idea you were pastoring there!" Reisetter says enthusiastically. He urges the minister to bring church members around to meet Republican Mike Huckabee, who is rising in the polls with less than two months to go until the caucuses.

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