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The people that look at recent polls and label evangelicals as anti-Mormon

No, not all, just some. I think this requires a retraction. There are obviously some evangelicals that are anti-mormon (some even anti-catholic). But there are many evangelical christians that are voting issues and not religion. But when you get anti-mormon push polls, its coming from somewhere. And please, don't blame the victim.
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RCP is hardly a base of support for Huckabee. Yet there average has Huckabee up big in South Carolina. And don't say the polls mean nothing, surely they do. Please explain how this is so.

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It will all depend on viability. If Romney loses Iowa and NH then it comes down to McCain and Huckabee because Rudy is not going to win in SC and Thompson is dead in the water. I seem to remember McCain having a bad time in South Carolina in 2000. Maybe he'll turn it around.

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is going to start hurting him.

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Caucus Cooler: Huck Makes $35,000 from Consulting Embryonic Stem Cell Research Company
I don’t really care about Huckabee’s liberal positions. Well, not nearly as much as this kind of stuff.

Most noteworthy, $35,000 came from Novo Nordisk, one of the world’s largest embryonic stem cell researchers. It seems that when money is at stake Huckabee may be able to look past his supposedly fervent opposition to this procedure

He also received speaking fees and honoraria from churches while Governor.

It is certainly calls into question whether or not it is appropriate for a Governor to be taking a consulting fee from interest groups, as Huckabee did, when issues surrounding that interest group could come across his desk.

The consulting money was funneled through an organization called 12 stops, a group created in 2004 to handle Gov. Huckabee’s book deals. With all the attention Senator Obama received for running a separate PAC and potentially funnelling money from maxed out donors through that PAC, it calls into question whether Huckabee may have done the same

Someone up above (no pun) suggested (some) evangelicals are voting issues, not religion. I would like to see some evidence of this as it goes against what I see on the ground.

As I said in another thread, I see Huck gathering support from independent Evangelicals. I also know a couple evangelicals that felt let down by Bush and drifted to independent status, but who are now firmly with Huck.

Here is a big shift that I see. Evangelicals woke up to politics and rather blindly followed Delay, Rove and Bush. Now there is a maturity in their thought, which is leading to a concern for the environment, the poor and some other traditional liberal issues.

While the Wash. Post famously referred to the religious right as "easily managed" they are, in fact, becoming less so.

So will they re-define the republican party, or become indies - dems?

Its a big deal, I think.

You give me hope. I can live with Fred, Guliani or Romney, but Huckabee brings visions of Carter, Nixon and Clinton all rolled into one. Yikes!

In the upstate, near Greenville. The three names I hear when politics come up in conversation - Romney, Giuliani and Huckabee. From the beginning it was Romney and Giuliani. Governor Huckabee has only recently snuck into the conversation, which tells me he is really just a fad. Once he barely scrapes out a win in Iowa, gets blown out in NH, NV and MI, he will be a non-factor once the primaries get here. (Fred Thompson is polling okay here and will siphon Huckabee's evangelical vote away.)

Gamecock is right, South Carolina picks winners because we're not a single-issue state (abortion) like some conservative bloggers like to think we are. We aren't the richest state, so low taxes, jobs, is big here. Being lower to middle middle class means a lot of sons and daughter joining the military for a career, so national defense, is huge, too. We're evangelicals who care more about protecting prayer before ballgames and Christmas than we are abortion.

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SoCons, frankly, are beginning to live in the world of theory.

A) You're never going to rid of abortion. At best, Roe v. Wade gets booted, it gets kicked back to the states, and (hopefully) most legislate it's banned only in the case of life of the mother. SoCons vilifying Rudy Giuliani, who is personally pro-life, for being the despised "pro-life" as a politican is disingenuous. Like it or not, being pro-choice is the law of the land - Roe v. Wade. Being "pro-abortion" is NARAL, NOW and the Democrat Party - people who are not personally against aborting a child. There is a distinct difference.

B) Gay marriage. Many states are already putting bans in place, defining marriage between a man and a woman, as they should. As long as the law is clearly defined as such and there is zero "slippery slope" that could lead to a backdoor means of giving gays the same status to marry, let the gay community have civil unions.

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and the games played with them by the drive-by media.

Some actually take time to do their homework and find truth in spite of the difficulty involved in so doing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22365097/

Those who don't buy kool-aid from the latest HUCKSTER to hit town.

Hey Folks,
My dad grew up in Iowa and I now live in Arkansas. This story is just the begining about Mike Huckabee accepting payments from all sorts of hidden groups... He had all sort of 501c4's set up in Arkansas when he was governor. I am not going to tell you how to vote, but I am glad that the truth is coming out about his payments. Many here in Arkansas know about how he took money. He has never released all the donors of these 501c4's that he used to take payments from. Ask Mike about "Action America" or some others that were shut down by the IRS for violating their 990 disclosures. Either way, I think he should release the full list, yet he won't. Also, a very large 527 is attacking his opponents and he claims to have no ties, yet Chip Saltsman and the Executive director of Common Sense Issues (Patrick Davis) who are running these ads are great friends. Also the board of directors for Common Sense Issues has held fundraisers for Huckabee, yet he says he doesn't know them even though he has been to their personal fundraisers. Which would mean all the activity is illegal. I feel bad for Patrick Davis because it means jail time, along with any other person he has communicated with at the Huckabee campaign.
Lets just remember what we are facing if he wins the nomination. I still like Richard Nixon, but I don't want a Richard Nixon situation again, and Mike Huckabee sure seems to operate in the gray areas. I bet more will come, because we in Arkansas don't have a lot of money, but we sure wish we could tell you about a former Governor and he sure wouldn't be reelected here. Ask him how he paid for his campaign bus or airplane. Once reporters hear this one, everyone will be second guessing whether we should support this guy. He is no Ronald Reagan and regardless of issues, he would destroy our hopes once Hillary's machine starts to unleash what they know about him. My Democrat friends are just laughing for two reasons... one that Huckabee has pulled the wool over all of us as Evangelicals and second, because they will ripe him to shreds on ethics violations that haven't even come out.
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Giuliani took on The New York Times and establishment liberals with relish as mayor, and they HATED him. Enough said about who our nominee should be.

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The liberal establishment hated the mayor, especially the New York Times (calling him a tyrant and a fascist, among other things) because he had a zero tolerance policy on crime; made welfare harder to get, so people had to get jobs (created by his massive tax cuts); eliminated pornographic shops from tourist spots, and pornographic "art" from public display...my point is, if the Liberal Nation calls you a fascist, a tyrant, mean-spirited, contentious, etc., it means you are deeply troubling to them, which means you are doing something right.

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Should be our nominee. We may have disagreements on who the best candidate is, however I caution listening to the old MSM & the elite punditry to tell us who is the most "electable" candidate.

I think conservative voters in general are more informed & look to the issues, records, & stances on issues. For me, it's Fred - for someone else, it may be another candidate. Golly gee, this is what primaries are for. I think the people in SC who are conservative/republican & around the country will do their homework. What will matter is who gets the votes in the primaries & the general election.

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