Huckabee surges in Iowa, only four points behind Romney...

Hmmm... I wonder what kind of shot Huckabee has, this could get more interesting. He'd get owned in a GE by one of the Dems.

Huckabee Gaining Ground in Iowa

By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, November 21, 2007; Page A01

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, buoyed by strong support from Christian conservatives, has surged past three of his better-known presidential rivals and is now challenging former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for the lead in the Iowa Republican caucuses, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll.

Huckabee has tripled his support in Iowa since late July, eclipsing former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, former senator Fred D. Thompson (Tenn.) and Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). Huckabee now runs nearly evenly with Romney, the longtime Iowa front-runner.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/11/20/ST2007112002497.html?hpid=topnews

I couldn't.

He's totally batshit crazy *without* the Magic Underwear©.

I already know of some folks who are pretty uneasy about Willard's Mormonism, but are quite comfortable with a man who thinks the Earth is 6,000 years old,

I think he's only polliing around the same scale as Edwards is on the Democratic side of things. If either one of them can't take Iowa, it's probably sayonara for them.

that x dem will trounce x repub in the GE.

huck has been going strong for some time now, and he's only now starting to show in the polls. look out for him, as he is a sleeper. and he's not someone to overlook in the GE.

plus he routinely self-destructed in front of the media in Arkansas. He was able to get away with it there, and has done fine so far because nobody has challenged him. Right now the media like the guy but he has a petty relationship with the media in his home state, a few remotely tough questions or issues brought up to him regularly in a GE and he'd revert back to his old behavior. His ethics issues alone with kill him, and former campaign workers, employees and Arkansas Republican's hate his guts and have come out against him for a while now. The more attention he gets nationally the more they'll get. Only about 1/3 of Arkansas Republican legislators support him for president. In presidential polls in his own state Hillary trounces him, and she has outraised him there financially too. By alot. The more people get to know him the more he goes downhill. In a general election he'd win no blue states, no swing states, and he wouldn't even win his home state, and he'd probably have a hard time splitting anything but the hardest of the hardcore red states. Like I said, he'd get trounced in a GE. Not even close. At least by any of the Dems who would most likely get the nomination.

and do not have a chance. If they did get the nomination, any of the leading Dems would destroy them in the Presidential Race.

whistling past the graveyard.

Rudy and Romeny have absolutely no chance of winning the general election. None.

nobody heard of Bill Clinton before 1992 and I'll bet a lot of people thought he had no chance.
Scarily, Huckster is also from Hope, AR

.....He's pro-war. 75% of the U.S. population are anti-war. Do the numbers.