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FRC Straw Poll Shows Potential — But Not Realized — Support For Huckabee
This weekend's Family Research Council Values Voter Summit showed Mike Huckabee demonstrating strong appeal to Christian conservatives — but many of them are lining up behind the more credible campaign of Mitt Romney.
The straw polls results had Huckabee and Romney in a battle for first. Thanks to a push to get people registered to vote online, Romney edged out Huckabee with 27.62% to Huckabee's 27.15%, out of 5,775 votes.
But of the 952 people who actually voted on-site, it wasn't even close: Huckabee romped home with 51.26% support, to Romney's 10.4%.
David Brody analyzes the result:
Here’s what it says. It says that you have social conservatives that are ready to embrace him and he’s ready to embrace them. That speech he made on Saturday was electric. I was there. I saw the crowd. They ate it up. See more on Huckabee's speech here. But let’s call a spade a spade. You have Evangelical leaders that are reluctant to back him because he’s having a hard time raising money and putting what they see as a top notch organization in place. He needs their support. He’s going to have to earn it. If social conservatives really want Huckabee so bad, then they'll need to put their money where their mouths are.
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Ron Paul did well considering that he was booed during his appearance. I wonder if he will be one of the mammals of the late Cretaceous Period while the dinosaurs fight each other to the death.
October 20, 2007 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jindal is the new Louisiana Governor.
October 21, 2007 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Huckabee is by far the most "What would Jesus do" Christian in the Republican field. He is not the favorite of the right wing money sources because of that. They do not want politicians with real Christian values. They want unfettered corporatists who can fool enough church goers to vote for them. I am a Southern liberal Democrat, and would probably not vote for him, but I deeply admire Huckabee's integrity and his serene presence.
October 21, 2007 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
So Romney's support came from his self-financed campaign paying staffers to round up people to vote online.
And Christian values-centered people who saw him in person were not particularly touched by his flawless Ken-doll delivery of his thoroughly scripted rhetoric.
And in a side-by-side taste test with Huckabee, Huckabee gets five votes for Romney's every one.
And the national media is only now starting to give Huckabee more than the "...and amidst the trivial flaky candidates..." treatment.
Huckabee is a smart, sincere and decent human being with a soft and winning touch. He's Ronald Reagan minus the dimness, detachment from reality, astrology, string-pulling scriptwriters and disinterest in the unfortunate. And, apart from strongly supporting arts and music in schools and a few other things, with a host of repugnant political positions. And fortunately, without any discernible fundraising ability.
I just wanted to point out that if our media had done their job, this would not be breaking news in late 2007, since all of this was obvious to this observer in 2005. Well, except for the sucking at fundraising part. That was a surprise to me and a bullet dodged for Hillary, who would be both more vulnerable to Huckabee than any other Democratic candidate, and more vulnerable to him than to any other Republican candidate.
October 21, 2007 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
But what about Tancredo? How did the bat-shit crazy wing of the party do?
Inquiring minds wanta know . . .
October 21, 2007 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huckleberry as a minister misquotes his god on forgiveness . . . Well tell other folk to offer forgiveness.
Huckleberry as a policy generator says that if Americans remove the feed strpped to our faces that all our healthcare issues would go away . . . Not realizing folk eat empty calories becuase they can afford meat and milk.
October 22, 2007 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink