Mike Huckabee is now facing possibly the worst story he'll have to deal with during this race: Activism against him from the mothers of murder victims, killed by a man he helped to free. In 1997, the Arkansas parole board freed convicted rapist Wayne Dumond after Huckabee advocated on his behalf. Dumond had become something of a cause célèbre on the right, with some Republicans alleging that Dumond had been railroaded because the victim was a distant relative of Bill Clinton.

A year after Dumond's 1999 release, he killed one woman in Missouri, for which he was convicted, and authorities strongly believe he killed another. Now the mothers of his victims are mobilizing against Huckabee's presidential campaign. "They say you’re supposed to forgive," said Lois Davidson, the mother of one of the women. "There are two men I don’t think I’ll ever forgive ... Mr. Huckabee and Wayne Dumond."