Buckhead Volunteer for Gingrich Hopeful of Top 3 Iowa Finish

Attorney Brad Carver of Buckhead, one of 30 Georgia volunteers for Newt Gingrich’s campaign in Iowa, said the campaign remains hopeful of a top three finish in the state’s caucuses Tuesday night.

Carver told Buckhead Patch from Iowa Tuesday afternoon, “it’s going very, very well. We’ve been up here a couple of days and have made a lot of phone calls, trying to reach out to the undecideds.” He said that polls show that 41 percent of Iowa’s Republican voters remained uncommitted headed into the caucuses.

“We’re hoping for a top three finish,” Carver said. “I tell you, based on my anecdotal evidence, a lot of these undecideds are breaking his way.  A lot of them see him  as a strong candidate in the general eletction.”.

Susan L. Meyers, the Georgia press secretary for Gingrich’s campaign, said in Atlanta that the campaign had a goal of making 100,000 calls a night for Gingrich, who was hurt in Iowa by negative  ads from supporters of front runner Mitt Romney. She said Gingrich’s Georgia volunteers were also going door to door in Iowa to build support for  him.

Carver, senior managing director of Hall Booth Smith & Slover government affairs practice, said he will represent Gingrich Tuesday night at a caucus in the greater Des Moines area. Under the caucus format, Caver said, each candidate can have a representative give a three-minute stump speech at a caucus location

The Georgia delegation for Gingrich is the largest, he said, with Texas, Florida and Virginia also having strong representation, he said.

Carver said he’s known Gingrich since 1989, when Carver was a high school student attending the Georgia Governor’ s Honors program and Gingrich spoke to the group.

“I believe passionately,” he said. “ I was happy I got the opportunity to come up here.”

He said that the weather in Iowa is even colder than in Atlanta, with a low of 11 Tuesday morning and a high of 19 early Tuesday afternoon. “Man, I’m cold,” he said. “It’s chilly.”

At Gingrich’s Buckhead headquarters, volunteers were gathering to man phone banks to make calls to Iowa Tuesday evening, a spokesperson said.