This podcast covers the results of the Iowa Caucuses. We discuss the significance of Huckabee’s victory, the state of the Republican race after Iowa and we also dissect Obama’s victory and analyze the rest of the Democratic race. [Listen Online] [Subscribe to 2008Central.net's Presidential Election Podcast] Feel free to email us questions/suggestions for next week’s [...]

[Re-published from 2008Central.net. We will update this post on Donklephant periodically, but for the latest check out the live blog at 2008Central.net] 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

[Republished from 2008Central.net] 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 [...]

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 [...]

What Huckabee pulled today was not only hilariously and woefully transparent, it also made him appear worse than the guy he was trying to smear. From NY Times: Mike Huckabee is holding a press conference right now in which he was supposed to unveil a new negative ad against arch rival Mitt Romney. But Mr. [...]

Recently, Barack and Hillary were tied and Huckabee led Romney. Well, things have changed, at least according to one poll. From CNN: In the new ARG survey, conducted December 20-23, she leads the Illinois senator by 15 percentage points, 34 to 19 percent. Obama is now in a statistical tie for second place with John [...]

Because he’s not a true fiscal conservative? Because he talks about the Christian God too much? Because he’s not too versed in the ways of foreign policy? And yet they liked and still like Bush? From Rod Dreher: They’re panicking because a) Huckabee is a wild card who could lose massively in the general election; [...]

A new poll has him tying with Rudy. From Reuters: DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Mike Huckabee has surged into a virtual tie with front-runner Rudy Giuliani in the national 2008 Republican presidential race two weeks before the first contest, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas whose [...]

Yesterday, the press was given an article where Huckabee was interviewed about his foreign policy views, and his tone towards Bush is, well, ballsy to say the least. What’s more, I think this is significant turning point in his campaign. I’ll explain why after some AP reportage… Huckaboom: “American foreign policy needs to change its [...]

I don’t usually post about spin doctors, but this is different. You see, a certain Arkansas governor succeeded in ’92 because he had a very skilled campaign guru by the name of James Carville on his side. Obviously it wasn’t the only reason, but it was a big one. And now another Arkansas governor has [...]

Is Mike Huckabee a likable guy? Yep. Does he know what he’s talking about? Ehh… From Washington Monthly: Economic policy? How about a 30% sales tax? Foreign policy? He likes Tom Friedman and Frank Gaffney, two pop commentators with almost nothing in common. Energy policy? Let’s eliminate oil imports by 2017. Immigration policy? Ship everyone [...]

[Re-published from 2008Central.net. We will update this post on Donklephant periodically, but for the latest check out the live blog at 2008Central.net] The Des Moines Register is having a Republican debate in Iowa today beginning at 2pm eastern. It is being aired on Iowa Public Television, as well as Fox News and CNN. 2:oo: Yup, [...]

Folks, this isn’t just an Iowa phenomenon. A number of national polls show Huckabee on top and this latest Rasmussen poll from Michigan shows him in a dead heat with Giuliani and Romney: Mike Huckabee’s surging campaign has created a three-way toss-up in Michigan’s Republican Primary. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Huckabee earning [...]

“What does it say about your party when people are deemed unelectable because they oppose torture?” – John Cole talking about Republicans’ problems with Mike Huckabee

“Huck has certainly trashed about nine months-worth of conventional wisdom on the changing nature of social conservative voters.” – From Rich Lowry’s “Revenge of the Evangelicals”

Andrew Sullivan nails it… The key is that the old red-blue, right-left boomer paradigm is fading; Obama offers exhausted Republicans a way out: a Democrat they can vote for. Many do not actually like the party they have become, and want to move forward into a less nasty, cramped and vicious direction. That’s why Huckabee [...]

Inevitability is dead. Marc Ambinder has the numbers: Obama: 28 Huckabee: 29 Clinton: 25 Romney: 24 Edwards: 23 Giuliani: 13 More from The Corner: The new poll from the Des Moines Register shows some dramatic changes in the Republican race in Iowa. The headline is that Mike Huckabee, who was 17 points behind Mitt Romney [...]

And it could happen, but some Republicans might not be so easily persuaded. First, the scenario… Let me sketch one potential scenario: Huckabee wins the Iowa caucus (which is what would happen if the election were today). Romney is second. Rudy is third and Thompson fourth. Huckabee surges into New Hampshire and his communications skills [...]