The former Governor is ahead by 15%, but should he stick around until Super Tuesday or is one state just not enough to justify the effort?
Rasmussen has the numbers…
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Georgia finds Huckabee with 34% of the vote followed by McCain at 19%, Romney with 16%, Ron Paul with 12% [...]

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7:30: Time Russert and Brian Williams (henceforth, Bri-Wi) are moderating this debate, and participating are John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul. I’m looking for Huckabee and Giuliani to [...]

Snarky fun from the McCain camp.

Yes, Huckabee is running for VP, and it’s a good strategy for him. However, would McCain go from somebody like Huck, who has the potential to spout theocratic nonsense and scare the world?
In some other circles, people are talking about Fred Thompson, but really? I mean…really? The guy is [...]

Over at The Politico Jonathan Martin posits that Huckabee is running for VP and is in fact running interference for McCain by intentionally locking up the Social Conservative vote.
From The Politico:

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For people reading between the lines, Mike Huckabee’s concession speech here Saturday night dropped some enticing hints that his presidential campaign [...]

It’s still close to call, but Huckabee probably won’t be able to close the 34% to 30% gap.
The story out of all of this? Two front runners have emerged: Romney and McCain. They better pick McCain if they want to have any hopes of winning the general election. The Dems would destroy the empty suit [...]

Yesterday, Chuck Norris appeared with Mike Huckabee at Clemson University. It reminded me why YOU DONT F*CK WITH CHUCK!

Obama has Oprah, Edwards has Tim Robbins, Fred Thompson has The National Right To Life Committee… but Huckabee has Chuck Norris.
God help us all.

Yup. He did. And you can’t tell me that it isn’t expected.
Maybe somebody should tell Huckabee that he’s running for President of the United States, not President of the Southern Baptist Convention.
From Beliefnet:
QUESTION: Is it your goal to bring the Constitution into strict conformity with the Bible? Some people would consider that a kind of [...]

He may be a likable guy, but he has been saying all the wrong things lately.
From Raw Story:
The United States Constitution never uses the word “God” or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from “We the People.” However, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee thinks it’s time to put an end to that.
“I [...]

Looks like he’ll pull 39% to McCain’s 30%. Huckabee pulled in a relatively strong 3rd at 16% considering the lack of evangelical support in Michigan. Ron Paul is pulling in 4th right now with 6%, with Thompson running a close 5th with 4%.
From The Detriot News:
Mitt Romney won a crucial victory in Tuesday’s Michigan Republican [...]

His numbers are awful against Obama or Hillary in a national race. Both would beat him handily by double digits.
As Michael Medved points out…
In the head-to-head contest with Barack Obama he is utterly wiped out, losing by a margin of 22 points (59% to 37%). Against Hillary Clinton, Romney fares little better, falling 18 percentage [...]

So last night, outside of a voting location in Manchester, New Hampshire, I ran into Mike Huckabee. Well… one of his supporters had built a peddle car, and brought it to the voting location. Huckabee took it for a little spin.
I also asked the governor why young voters should want him to be president. Then, [...]

And that’s not a good thing for his campaign.
From Washington Post:
WINDHAM, N.H., Jan. 6 — A pastor from Texas was scheduled to deliver the sermon Sunday at a church here called the Crossing.
But instead this small evangelical congregation heard from a different special guest: Baptist minister and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who delivered a [...]

That’s the word on the Corner.

It’s telling how many of the candidates are saying the word “change” today.
Barack obviously owns the word since he talked about it first. He understood this zeitgeist sooner than everybody else. Huckabee also says it and stands for a real change within the Republican party, definitely moreso than Barack would for the Democratic party. [...]

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9:00: Reminder, Dems: Obama, Edwards, Clinton; GOP: Huckabee, Romney, Thompson/McCain/Paul
9:09: Andrea Mitchell calls it a “remarkably bad outcome for Hillary”
9:10: Matthews says the Clinton comeback begins now.
9:11: John Edwards is making an appearance, smiling; [...]

There’s no way I’m calling it this early, but that’s what CNN is reporting. Huck is about 10% ahead of Romney, and that’s because 60% of the GOP voters who came out tonight were evangelicals. Big, big night for Huckabee and a big disappointment for Romney.
Surprise of the night? Fred Thompson, followed closely by McCain [...]

I think it’s actually realistic. Here’s why…
Romney and Huckabee have 1st and 2nd locked up. The order in which they’ll finish is still up in the air, but I have a feeling that Huckabee could grab 1st because people just don’t seem to like Romney that much. Still, he has spent a ton of money [...]

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Fact 1:
After a weekend of endless assaults on him by the Romney campaign, Huckabee took time to film and (potentially) briefly air attack ads on Romney, before pulling it in a strange series of events. Huckabee also spent the weekend calling Romney basically a liar. Take this excerpt from Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: [...]

This is the last poll before the caucus and it is historically very accurate. That doesn’t mean it will ultimately prove to be dead on, but it’s still VERY good news for his campaign. This is fantastic momentum going into January 3rd and everybody knows it.
From the DMR:
Obama was the choice of 32 percent of [...]