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This is Part 6 of a look at possible GOP candidates that might run well against Obama in 2012.
Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty
Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Romney
Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee
Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman
Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan
Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich
Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum
Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman
The former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee was born on August 24, 1955, in Hope, Arkansas, which is the same small town where former U.S. President Bill Clinton was born just nine years earlier.
Although Huckabee is perhaps the perfect example of what a conservative republican candidate should stand for and a large portion of social conservatives still support him, I still believe that he would have major problems running against Obama because.
Huckabee is a staunch opponent of g** marriage and gun control.
That said, in the extremely early 2012 election polls, Huckabee has been leading amongst Republicans and has the strongest showing when matched against Barack Obama.
He is also a staunch opponent of racism and anti-Semitism, and although it’s still unclear where Barak Obama stands on these issues, we do know that his wife Michelle is an out and out racist.
Huckabee won the 2008 Iowa Caucus but ultimately finished second to John McCain in the 2008 republican primaries nomination, and he was then ridiculed for his reluctance to bow out of the race even after it was quite clear that he couldn’t win.
Following that loss he was quoted as saying "I’m not ruling anything out for the future, but I’m not making any specific plans".
Then in late November 2009, he said that a 2012 presidential bid, "is less likely rather than more likely just because I would have to see that the Republicans would be willing to unite behind me".
He also says it’s far too early to say what he will do and that the November 2010 congressional election results will affect his decision.
But his recent skit on "political correctness" demonstrates that he has a sense of humor and a great memory, along with political astuteness!
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A national survey conducted by New Jersey-based Farleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind shows Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee now running even in matchups against President Barack Obama, with Chris Christie not far behind.
According to the poll, which surveyed 800 registered voters nationwide, Obama and Huckabee would each garner 46% of the vote, while Romney trails by just one point, 46% to 43%.
And Christie, a conservative star who insists he’s not running, trails Obama by only 6 points, 46% to 40%.
The rest of the GOP field struggles to compete however and Obama would crush Sarah Palin 54% to 34%, and he’d beat Tim Pawlenty, 48% to 34%.
He’d also beat Newt Gingrich 52% to 37%.
The poll was taken from March 21 through March 28, with a sampling error of 3.5%age points.
Huckabee just won (April 02, 2011) a 2012 GOP presidential straw poll in the key early primary state of South Carolina.
Huckabee topped the York County Republican Party poll Saturday with 23% of first-choice votes according to the party.
Other results were:
Newt Gingrich 11%
Michele Bachmann 10%.
Romney garnered 8%
And Tim Pawlenty and Donald Trump each won 7%.
The remainder scored between 1-4% of the vote.
Around half of the 149 convention attendees who voted on the issues ballot said that reducing government spending and reducing the size of government were their biggest concerns going into 2012.
If he does decide to run, then Huckabee might well win again in the Iowa caucuses, but he faces a more difficult challenge in South Carolina, where he finished second last time around to eventual Republican nominee John McCain.
Although Huckabee apparently hasn’t yet made up his mind about another White House run, his South Carolina team-in-waiting is unanimous in agreeing that he could pull it off, even if he gets a later start than his rivals, and former Gov. Beasley said;
“I don’t think there’s any doubt that he is seriously considering it, and I don’t think there’s any question that encouragement from South Carolina voters and leaders will influence him”.
Moreover, whilst most presidential campaigns traditionally shy away from the frontrunner label, Huckabee and his team are fighting publicly to claim it.
“When people will talk about Mitt Romney being the presumed frontrunner, I’m not sure where they’re getting that information from because if you take a look at the majority of the polls, he’s not winning in a majority of the polls”, Mike Campbell said. “Not only that, but people seem to forget that Romney came in third last time. Huckabee came in second and did so without the money Romney had”.
Huckabee would be crazy to run!
He has a great life, he hosts a popular TV show, is making lots of money and building his dream house in Florida.
And he doesn’t look crazy to me.
While Donald Trump was vacuuming up tons of political oxygen this afternoon, former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas was making some noise of his own, by keeping alive speculation that he will enter the still ill-defined field of Republican presidential candidates.
In response to a series of conflicting reports about his deliberations, the spokesman for his political action committee, J. Hogan Gidley, released a statement late this afternoon that made it unambiguously clear that he is still seriously weighing a campaign:
“National polling consistently shows Governor Huckabee is the frontrunner – so we expect a certain amount of unfounded speculation, odd rumors, and sadly, the occasional lie lobbed our way, but the Governor himself has been quite clear on this matter. He has truthfully and repeatedly stated that he is seriously considering a run for President but he won’t make that decision until this summer – and that has not changed”.
The shape of the Republican presidential race depends on Mike Huckabee, and the primary season will be one kind of contest with the former Arkansas governor in the race, and another without him.
With Huckabee, the race will feature a favorite of social conservatives in a leading role in a campaign likely to focus on economic issues.
But without him, a more economic-minded candidate might lead, with several other candidates vying for what would have been Huckabee’s social-conservative spot.
Which will it be?
These days, among the people who have known and worked with Huckabee, there is a growing sense that he’s leaning toward another run for the White House.
The prospect of a Huckabee candidacy, much less a Huckabee victory, makes a lot of Washington Republicans deeply uncomfortable.
Many economic conservatives dislike Huckabee for what they feel is his soft record on taxes.
Foreign policy conservatives don’t like him, either, mostly for his lack of experience with their issues.
Well Huckabee’s gone which leaves about 10-12 more contenders.
Huckabee is a former Baptist preacher who is telegenic, does well in debates and is conservative enough for most party activists without scaring off moderates.
But having been through the meat grinder once, he knew what it would take to win and concluded he didn’t have the heart for it.
Adios Huck and good luck!