Naw. Can’t let that happen. Here is your daily dose of all things Huckabee. First, faster than a speeding bullet…
Huckabee Passes Romney in Iowa
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey in Iowa caucus finds Mike Huckabee leading among Republicans with 28% support, followed by Mitt Romney with 25% support and everyone else far behind. Rudy Giuliani comes [...]
Romney, Huckabee Surge in South Carolina
A new Clemson Palmetto Poll shows Mitt Romney leading the Republican presidential race in South Carolina with 17% support, followed closely by [...]
The Upside and Downside of Mike Huckabee
I am both really pleased and really nervous about Huckabee doing so well in Iowa, but the nervous side of me is winning right now in terms of how this could play out. Like David Sirota here, I am always pleased when populist economics shows up in a political campaign, even when it comes from a Republican and even if the candidate’s policy prescriptions generally suck, as is the case with Huckabee. But to see [...]
Chris Cillizza concludes that “it is possible, but it won’t be easy.” My view is, why the heck not. As Cillizza reminds us, Pat Buchanan (1992) and Pat Robertson (1988) captured [...]
Huck supporters like his softer side
Conservatives like Huckabee’s emphasis on consumer-friendly issues like health care.
The traditional media loves to swim in schools, following a comfortable narrative. Once they’ve decided who is a “maverick,” which former mayor has “foreign policy experience” and who is a “popular president,” little things like facts aren’t allowed to spoil the story. Every now and then, the school of media fish catch a flash of color and seemingly as one, they flip around and wiggle off in [...]
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