In my opinion, Huckabee was Obama’s biggest threat in 2012 given his personal appeal and ideas like the Fair Tax, which could be an easy populist sell in difficult times. From Fox News: “All the factors say go, but my heart says no,” Huckabee, who was considered the GOP frontrunner in several national polls, said [...]

Will he? Won’t he? Nobody knows until tomorrow night. And he’s doing it on Fox News: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is expected to announce whether or not he will run for president on his Fox News Channel show Saturday evening, a major moment in the nascent 2012 contest. “Governor Huckabee will announce tomorrow night [...]

Here’s how it shook out, according to CNN: Huckabee: 23% Gingrich: 11% Bachmann: 10% Romney: 8% Pawlenty: 7% Trump: 7% The rest (Haley Barbour, John Bolton, Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, Mitch Daniels, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum): 34% The usual caveats apply…straw polls are usually just a popularity [...]

No doubt that it costs a lot of money to become President, and that may keep Mike from putting his hat in the ring in 2012. Still, I don’t think this is any sort of indication that he won’t be running. He cites his popularity in swing states and traditionally blue states as a reason [...]

Both Newt and Rick are making presidential rumblings and that means that paying them on a “news” channel is a bad idea…apparently. From New York Times: On Wednesday, the cable news channel suspended two paid contributors, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, who are both weighing presidential bids. While the channel’s move seems pre-emptive — Mr. [...]

Obama is baiting the trap and if the GOP candidate doesn’t take it in 2012, it could spell trouble for the Dems. Last night the President said this… I have no doubt that everyone will find something in this compromise that they don’t like. In fact, there are things in here that I don’t like [...]

And by a very large margin. Hotline On Call breaks down the numbers… Mitt Romney: 81 points Tim Pawlenty: 46 John Thune: 38 Haley Barbour: 28 Mitch Daniels: 25 Sarah Palin: 25 Note how far down Palin is on that list. That’s because, as noted, this is a poll of party insiders and they really [...]

I’d expect the former Arkansas Governor’s stock to drop significantly after the word gets out about how he views the presidency. From Politico: Mike Huckabee, the former Republican governor from Arkansas who has his own Fox show told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that a 2012 presidential bid is “less than likely” and depends [...]

Found this little nugget in a piece about Huck in the Politico today. Apparently he’s leading the pack with GOPers… Gallup’s survey of Republicans found that 71 percent would consider voting for him, more than for Palin, Romney or others. The same survey found that he’s the only Republican whom even 50 percent of Americans [...]

Public Policy Polling pitted the top Republicans (including Jeb Bush) against Obama in a hypothetical matchup and found that the former Arkansas Governor’s folksy ways puts him at the top of the pack. And this makes sense. Huckabee is amiable, has some ideas that at least sound new (get rid of the IRS, FAIR tax) [...]

Some interesting polling numbers from PPP via Pollster.com: Favorable / Unfavorable Newt Gingrich: 33 / 42 Mike Huckabee: 45 / 28 Sarah Palin: 40 / 49 Mitt Romney: 37 / 34 2012 President Obama 49%, Gingrich 41% Obama 47%, Huckabee 44% Obama 52%, Palin 38% Obama 47%, Romney 40% What is most notable to me [...]

(NOTE: I misread the poll results. The poll is among ALL voters. I’ll strike what isn’t relevant anymore, but most of my comments weren’t about the Republican nature of this poll anyway. Sorry for the confusion and thanks to Simon for pointing this out.) This was a bit of a surprise, especially considering that only [...]

Is he running for 2012 or America’s Sweetheart? Probably both. Jonathan Martin lays it out… Mike Huckabee has a new book coming out, a weekly talk show on Fox and is an in-demand speaker. But apparently he’s got some spare time. The former Arkansas governor and once and perhaps future presidential candidate has inked a [...]

Sure, it’s just a book tour, but we all know what it’s really about. From NY Times: Mr. Huckabee’s new book could offer him a fresh platform to weigh in on the emerging debate over the Republican Party’s future. His Web site describes it as: “Huckabee’s amazing story, in his own words s — from [...]

Yeah, yeah, I know it sucks, but this is politics and the speculation is bound to beginning immediately. In any event, NBC and the Wall Street Journal did a poll and guess who topped their list? That’s right: Mitt Romney. I wrote yesterday about how he was already starting his bid during the campaign itself [...]

Tucker Carlson is convinced he’s already running. So am I. Here’s more… Romney dropped out of the presidential race in February, but he never went away. He quickly became a regular guest on cable news, started a political action committee (which, according to National Review, has already given away more than $200,000 in donations), and [...]

Yes, Palin’s on the list, but she ranks third behind Romney and Huckabee. And with a field like that, does she really think she can overcome the perceptions that have formed about her during this election cycle? From Newsweek: If John McCain is not elected president, which one of the following three possible candidates would [...]

Looks like somebody has given the green light to the surrogates to talk about Obama’s past drug use. This doesn’t surprise me about Giuliani, but Huckabee? First Giuliani… Then here’s a link to Huck. Ugh.

Former Arkansas Governor and presidential contender Mike Huckabee could apparently have a career as an EMT. This weekend at the North Carolina GOP convention breakfast, Huckabee performed the Heimlich maneuver on Lt. Governor candidate Robert Pittenger who began choking while sitting next to Huckabee. In all seriousness, praise goes out to Huckabee for quick action. [...]

Don’t worry, Huckabee Fans… I was just as perplexed as you when I saw the list of potential Veeps invited to McCain’s BBQ didn’t include Mike Huckabee. Today word’s leaked out that Mike was, in fact, invited to the big McCain Memorial Day Weekend – but he couldn’t make it! Sarah Huckabee says her parents [...]