Most people agree that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee didn’t have the ammo necessary that most candidates would need to win the Iowa caucuses, but Huckabee did it with ease.

With a margin of 34 percent to Mitt Romney’s 25 percent after 86 percent of the precincts were counted, Huckabee won the event in a relative landslide. His supporters give a lot of the credit to his “army” of volunteers.

“I was impressed with his support. They were from all over America, and were pretty much all volunteers,” said Nathaniel Kloutz, a high school student from Illinois. “I was probably one of the closest ones [volunteering] and I’m from Rockford, Illinois.”

National Campaign Chairman Ed Rollins was enthusiastic about the volunteer effort for the Huckabee campaign. He also touched on the outrageous amount of money Huckabee was outspent by other candidates, in particular on negative television ads, which was approximately 15 to 1.

“It was a volunteer army who went out and basically allowed him to take his case to the voters of the state,” Rollins said. “The voters of the state should be congratulated because they didn’t pay attention to the millions of dollars spent on negative advertising.”

As of a few days prior to the caucus, estimates were that Huckabee was outspent 20 to 1 in campaign dollars, the day of the caucus that number was more popularly quoted as being 15-1, still a substantial margin, especially for a winning candidate. Steve Deace, host of “The Steve Deace Show” on WHO Radio said he thinks the margin would have been even wider if Huckabee had the cash other candidates possessed.

“He was not equipped, if they had more money they might have gone over 40, 45 percent in this state. I really think that” Deace said. “I think this sends a message to the entire Republican Party.”

Huckabee even got in on some of the rich-bashing fun in his speech, giving the Iowa “people” credit for overcoming the money.

“People really are more important than the purse, and what a great lesson for America to learn,” Huckabee said.

Standing by many of the traditional conservative principles, one of Huckabee’s primary goals is to build a fence that covers the entire U.S.-Mexico border. He also has a plan to implement an interlocking surveillance camera system along the border. He also has been consistent in his anti-abortion stances, and is passionate that marriage should be exclusively between a man and a woman. It’s these issues that garnered most interest from conservative voters.

“What I’m personally interested in is our safe borders,” said recent Iowa alumnus Daniel Schlenker. “He’s recently talked about that a lot, and I think it’s an important issue.”

Huckabee is now off to New Hampshire, where he will undoubtedly be more confident than he’s ever been about the primaries after an Iowa blowout. He’ll always have a soft spot in his heart for the people of Iowa though, after the win.

“I wasn’t sure that I would ever be able to love a state as much as I love my home state of Arkansas, but tonight, I love Iowa a whole lot,” Huckabee said.