Huckabee Moving Up In Iowa
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Huckabee, Iowa, Polls, RomneyWell, looks like that strong showing in the straw poll helped quite a bit after all.
While the Democratic contest in Iowa has been a three-way battle for some time, most polls have shown Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, with a strong lead in the Hawkeye State, dominating the GOP field. Recent surveys, however, have shown Huckabee picking up steam, and he is well within striking distance in the CBS News/New York Times poll, where he trails Romney, 27 percent to 21 percent, with a 5 percent margin of error. [...]While Romney still leads in Iowa, his support base is far softer than that of Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor whose campaign has gained momentum in recent weeks. Half of Huckabee supporters said they had made up their mind, compared to two-thirds of Romney supporters who said they could change their mind before caucus night. Overall, 57 percent of GOP caucus-goers said they haven’t settled on one candidate.
Why the strong support behind Huck? Well, I’m betting that values voters are lining up behind him because he is far and away the most vocal religious conservative on the campaign trail. Plus, he doesn’t sound like he’s full of crap.
Still, can he pull it off? Especially with such a small bankroll?
And to that point, check out the green Romney’s throwing around…
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has spent $10.2 million on television advertising this year, a record amount at this point in a presidential campaign, according to new data provided to CNN.He is spending more than $85,000 a day — $600,000 last week alone — on campaign commercials, according to TNSMI/Campaign Media Analysis Group, CNN’s consultant on political television advertising spending. Romney’s presidential campaign commercials have aired more than 14,500 times. The closest Republican to Romney in ad spending is Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has aired more than $300,000 worth of campaign ads.
Huckabee’s got an uphill battle, but wouldn’t it be something if he did shock the world and pull off a win or at least an incredibly strong showing in Iowa with virtually no ad dollars?
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November 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Huckabee… one of the only two Republican candidates I would never vote for (the other being, of course, Giuliani). This guy is essentially running as the substitute for GWB’s re-election.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Been saying it since I discovered Governor Huckabee back in August.
Slow and steady… and he’s gaining traction with every passing day.
You also continue to hear it every-day – typical every-day Americans that learn about and Meet Mike just draw to him because he’s genuine, stands by his values and says it like it is.
ALL the other candidates try to be everything to everyone which just displays the lack of integrity and conviction.
Vote for a genuine conservative, and someone who is one of us – not someone who’s trying to buy your vote!
GO MIKE
http://njchristiansforhuckabee.wordpress.com
Learn who Mike is… and he’ll win your support
November 14th, 2007 at 1:36 am
I like most of what Huckabee’s had to say, and he’s one of the very few guys running who really sounds like he believes what he’s saying. That counts for a lot.
However…if Huckabee has one great failing, it’s that he fails to see how foreign policy is inextricably linked to our economic problems. Ron Paul is the only candidate who understands that an interventionist foreign policy has virtually destroyed our credibility as a nation that claims to love freedom, to say nothing of having bankrupted the country. It’s all very well to talk about prayer in schools and definitions of marriage, but when the military’s stretched to the breaking point, our allies don’t trust us, and you blow your nose with the dollar because that’s all it’s good for, those social issues amount to a bunch of hot air.
Ron Paul 2008 – the only Republican with integrity AND a plan, and the only man who can beat Hillary.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Huckabee is an adroit public speaker. He is all about calling his listeners to “do something,” to awaken them to their own empowerment, and summon them to action in order that “Main Street,” and not “Wall Street,” will prevail in guarding the values and beliefs upon which the Republic was founded.
Huckabee puts his listeners at ease, and reassures them, articulating clear concepts in a natural, easy style (no doubt something well-cultivated as a pastor). He’s not as “mechanically-scripted†as Romney, nor angry or demanding, like a Ron Paul, and his large brown eyes, peering through a humble demeanor, draw a striking contrast to a unconvincing, tired-looking Thompson. One can easily imagine sitting comfortably with Mike over a cup of coffee at the Main Street Cafe.
Most importantly, Huckabee convinces many that he is ONE with the FairTax grassroots movement ( http://snipr.com/fthuckabeeonirs ). Romney’s recent WEAK response to FairTax questioning on “This Week with Geo. Stephanopoulos ( http://snipurl.com/stephanopoulosdebate )†drew a sharp contrast between Huckabee and all other presidential front-runners who will not embrace it. Huckabee understands that what’’s wrong with the income tax can”t be fixed with “a tap of the hammer, nor a twist of the screwdriver.” That his opponents cling to the destructive Tax Code, the IRS, preserving political power of granting tax favors at continued cost to – and misery of – American families, invigorates his campaign’’s raison d”etre. “Main Street†will have to demand ( http://snipr.com/scrapthecode ) that their legislators deliver the bill to Huckabee, if elected.