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Posted at 1:47am on Dec. 29, 2007 The liberal MSM made Huckabee, but it's the conservative MSM that will give him victory
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It's true that the MSM (particularly its liberal wing) helped to make Huckabee. But they can't unmake him. As a result of their boosting he has attracted a significant core of die-hard supporters (Christian and social conservatives) who will stick with him through thick and thin (attack ads, his own foolish misstatements and gaffes, and MSM ambush stories and punditry etc). As a result of the help of the liberal MSM these Huckabee supporters have acquired enough critical mass to help him either obtain a narrow or a more convincing victory in Iowa and other early and later states.
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Posted at 1:06pm on Dec. 4, 2007 Divided Between McCain and Huckabee - But Leaning Toward Huckabee
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First of all let me say that I would have preferred Senator John McCain as the GOP presidential candidate. He's my kind of man. I prefer plain-talking men and politicians to charmers and "slicksters." My previous posts going back many months show this preference. Character- and courage-wise McCain towers above the rest, including Governor Mike Huckabee. He has a greater proven patriotic love of America than most of the other hopefuls.
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Posted at 7:00pm on Nov. 26, 2007 Zogby Poll: Mike Huckabee Leads GOP Top-Tier Candidates in Besting Hillary in Matchups
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A new Zogby poll brings up some quite remarkable revelations: perhaps for the first time this campaign season that poll shows all leading GOP presidential candidates besting the Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton in hypothetical match-ups.
Democrat Hillary Clinton would lose to all major Republican White House candidates, according to a hypothetical election matchup poll Monday, reversing her months of dominance over potential 2008 challengers.
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Posted at 5:40pm on Oct. 22, 2007 Time, Newsweek and what else have you say it's more and more likely to be Huckabee...
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It's incredible what's going on right now in the media's reporting of the Republican Party nomination race. For months Mike Huckabee was barely a dot on the radar of the mainstream media. If at all they mentioned him in their analyses and news reports he was usually the one-line or one-paragraph guy.
But all of a sudden it's all changing --- and very dramatically. In the past several days almost all the major mainstream media publications have been giving him the kind of indepth coverage normally reserved for the likes of Giuliani, Obama or Clinton.
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Posted at 6:53pm on Oct. 17, 2007 Huckabee Rocketing in Iowa
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Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is now definitely the man to watch out for in the GOP race, particularly in the early nominating state of Iowa.
According to Rasmussen's latest polls, Huckabee is now virtually tied with Fred Thompson for second position in Iowa.
See the numbers here .
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Posted at 3:14pm on Oct. 5, 2007 Mike Huckabee Continues to Make Impressive Gains in State and National Opinion Polls
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crossposted @ newsandpolicy.com
The story over the past couple of days has been Ron Paul's haul of more than $5 million in the GOP nomination race and on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton's fundraising triumph over Obama in the third quarter.
But it appears that the media is missing an even more important development in the nomination race --- Mike Huckabee's gradual but sustained upward movement in opinion polls and the decreasing gap between him and the four GOP top-tier candidates.
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Posted at 9:59pm on Sep. 5, 2007 Fred Thompson's Official Entry into the GOP Nomination Fight Will Shake up the Race
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Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is reportedly going to make his long-awaited presidential bid official tonight . Thompson's entry into the GOP nomination race is expected to shake things up quite a bit. For months now former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been the frontrunner. Giuliani has high favorability ratings among Republicans, including their conservative base. However, despite being in the good graces of so many of the party faithfuls, there remains a sense of unease about his candidacy. This is largely because of the perception that he's liberal on social issues such as homosexuality and abortion.
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Posted at 7:37pm on Aug. 12, 2007 Huckabee Emerges from Iowa Straw Poll as GOP Resurgent Candidate
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With his second-placed position in the Iowa straw poll, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has emerged as a potential resurgent candidate of the Republican Party presidential nomination race. The major focus of the media in the Iowa poll was the performance of former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney, who placed first with 32 percent of the 14,302 ballots cast, but who is now struggling to dispel perceptions that it was a hollow victory .
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Posted at 10:38pm on Aug. 11, 2007 Ames: Huckabee Second, The Poll details here...
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Report: Gov Mitt Romney won the 2007 Ames straw poll, receiving 4516 votes, or 31%.
In a surprise, Gov. Mike Huckabee finished second with 2587 votes at 18.1%
More details at are posted @ newsandpolicy.com
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Posted at 2:37pm on Aug. 10, 2007 McCain Tacks Hard Right on Immigration as Bush Admin Cracks Down on Illegals
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Following the immigration fiasco that splintered the party into warring factions, the Republican Party is attempting to transform that bone of contention into an olive branch to appease their base enraged and disgruntled by efforts by some party leaders to ram through a Senate immigration reform bill hated by the GOP grassroots. Party heavyweights such as Senators Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.) and his fellow Arizona senator and presidential candidate John McCain supported the defeated reform initiative. They formed part of the bipartisan group of senators that framed the failed bill. But according to media reports these same men are now the spearheading force behind a new bill that is in many respects radically different in emphasis to the aborted bill . What's more, the Bush administration which went stubbornly against mainstream GOP opinion by supporting the defeated bill is now trying to mend fences with the party's grassroots and its political and opinion leaders by cracking down hard on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.Terrence P. Jeffrey editor-at-large of Human Events has one of the best analysis of the announced Fed crackdown in National Review Online where he exposes some of exposes some of its weaknesses and potential long-term ineffectiveness .