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CBS News: Huckabee is Gaining Ground

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date November 5, 2007

CBS News online takes a look at former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s campaign. An excerpt:

[Huckabee] would seem to be a natural to attract the support of social conservatives in the Republican presidential contest.

But the Baptist minister who wows audiences with a mix of down-home folksiness and traditional values has spent most of the year struggling to gain a foothold in the race for the GOP nomination.

Lately, however, there are signs that Huckabee may be catching on.

In the latest Iowa poll by the American Research Group, Huckabee is within striking distance of Mitt Romney, whom he trails 27 percent to 19 percent. Other polls in Iowa, host of the first statewide nominating contests on Jan. 3, also show Huckabee gaining ground …

Read it all at CBSNews.com.

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Dick Morris Hearts Huckabee

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date October 23, 2007

On realclearpolitics.com, former Clinton political advisor Dick Morris calls former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee the Christian right’s last survivor.

When it comes to abortion, Morris points out that Mitt Romney has flip-flopped back and forth; Fred Thompson was once paid to lobby for the weakening of anti-abortion regulations, and that has left Huckabee.

“In the meantime,” Morris says, “plugging away in the shadows, with no money and no political backing, an articulate, principled, knowledgable, conservative Christian, Mike Huckabee, has been plowing the fields in Iowa hoping to catch a break.”