Huckabee Notes For Tonight

Let’s create a new segment, shall we?  Let’s just call it “Huckabee Headlines” for simplicity’s sake.  For starters, he’s not riding high with ALL Conservative pundits..

“Huckabee: ‘a different kind of Jesus juice’”

This is infuriating and cringe inducing, “In 2005, a Republican state senator named Jim Holt introduced a bill to deny public benefits to Arkansas’ soaring population of illegal immigrants. Holt, a Southern Baptist minister, figured it was a rock-solid conservative idea — a matter, he said, “of right and wrong.” Arkansas’ governor [...]

Pro-Huckabee negative calls flood Iowa

Iowans report getting robo-calls slamming Giuliani, Thompson and McCain; Huckabee camp denies link [...]

UPDATE: Time Magazine’s blog, Real Clear Politics, figured out who’s behind it all…

A Pro-Huck Outfit Outed

Jonathan Martin has the goods on a pro-Huckabee outfit making push polling calls in Iowa attacking the other GOP candidates. Reports Martin: “Trust Huckabee,” whose website went live last week, was [...]

The Rise of the Outsider

Michael Barone has a timely piece this morning, chronicling how Iowa voters may be ready to upset the conventional wisdom. It’s all of a piece with what may be this campaign’s first major [... ]

The Power Of Christianism

It’s propelling Huckabee to national status; and it allows him to rally an informal national network of pastors, whom he’s addressing in Iowa this [...]

But, bottom line – new polls show they like him in Iowa. They really like him..

Giuliani’s fast decline, Huckabee’s rise

I alway feared Huckabee’s potential, though was heartened by his utter inability to raise any money. Well, he’s gotten a serious boost from the 1-2 punch of the YouTube debate and the Sex on the City scandal. On 11/30, Rasmussen’s tracking poll had Giuliani at [...]