Mike Huckabee???

Hi Forum,

why do you think that Mike Huckabee dropped out after doing so well early in the polls? It seems like those lucrative Fox News spots are killing an interesting candidate in this case.

Hi Forum,

It appears that Mike is a serious contender -- even front runner -- according to the pundits. Of course, his "announcing" is a strategic matter but it will surely happen soon. The Iowa Caucus has him first in line.

News Report:

Donald Trump may be taking Florida by storm, but Mike Huckabee is still the favorite in Iowa, according to a Public Policy Polling poll released Tuesday. Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucus in 2008, takes 27 percent of the vote on a slate of candidates, handily beating Mitt Romney’s 16 percent and Donald Trump’s 14 percent.

Trump, in fact, doesn’t seem to be much of a factor in the first-in-the-nation primary state. Remove him from the race, and his percentage of the vote is redistributed somewhat evenly among the other candidates, leaving the standings say much the same: Huckabee retains the largest share of the vote, with Romney in second, and Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin moving into third where Trump was (with Trump in the race they are in fourth and fifth place, with 9 percent and 8 percent of the vote respectively).

Romney, despite the rumors that he will devote minimal resources to the state, holds on to second place in all the configurations polled by PPP. Huckabee is his major competitor in the state – if he doesn’t run, as many have speculated, then Romney leads the other candidates by a substantial margin.

The numbers differ from other early primary states like Florida and New Hampshire, where Huckabee gets little traction. His dominance in Iowa is likely attributable, in large part, to his win there in the last election: people like a winner. It could also reflect the greater sway that social conservatives have in Iowa compared to other states, but that is clearly not the only factor, as Trump and Romney beat more pronounced social conservatives like Gingrich and Bachmann.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/19/huckabee-still-ahead-in-iowa/#ixzz1MHhBt7mb

Hi Forum,

So it seems to me that Mike is getting some real traction. For whatever reason, Mitt seems not to gel people's interest of confidence. Donald Trump is clearly a sideshow already losing momentum. If anyone has a case to make for Mike, I'd like to hear it. It's not likely to change my vote, but I'd still like to hear it.

Hi trout,

I don't play favorites myself. Democrat or Republican, anyone running for office needs a paper trail. Don't much like to hear that it's been erased. His sermons too are alleged to be disappearing.

Huffingtonpost, nothing else needs to be said. He would make a very good President, something our nation needs now get us back to the center and help us see what we have and appreciate it. He would not apologize for Amercia's history to anyone. He was governor for just 10 years, two 4 years terms and 2 years of Jim G. Tucker's term (he was convicted and sent to prison remember).

Hi Forum,

We know that Mike Huckabee seems to want to run for President in our next election. There's a buzz going around about records. Here's a section:

[b"]There's a Mike Huckabee mystery that won't go away.

Send a public records request seeking documents from his 12-year stint as Arkansas governor, as Mother Jones did recently, and an eyebrow-raising reply will come back: The records are unavailable, and the computer hard drives that once contained them were erased and physically destroyed by the Huckabee administration as the governor prepared to leave office and launch a presidential bid..."[/b]
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/mike-huckabee-secrecy_n_844760.html

Thoughts?