Mike Huckabee has officially disavowed the third-party push-poll effort being conducted on his behalf in Iowa. "I don't know who is behind it. We've asked them to stop," Huckabee said yesterday. "I don't think it's helping us. In fact, it's hurting us, and it's not part of our campaign. We have publicly repudiated the tactics because they do not represent our kind of campaigning."

Jonathan Martin has uncovered some information about Common Sense Issues, the group conducting the "Trust Huckabee" campaign. The group's manager, former NRSC political director Patrick Davis, says the group even plans to do their own recruiting of precinct captains for Huckabee's campaign — though it's questionable at best whether they can do those sorts of campaign activities and maintain their 501(c)(4) non-profit status, and they risk overlapping and interfering with the official Huckabee campaign's own efforts.