Rudy's not gettin' any love, is he?

The longer he campaigns in a state, the lower his numbers....

Tied with the Huckster?

Ouch.

Instead, Bloomberg argued, the government should:

• adopt a capital budget to oversee long-term infrastructure spending, instead of the current year-to-year spending.

• offer financial counseling, modified loans, and in some cases subsidized loans to homeowners who find themselves unable to afford their mortgage.

• overhaul immigration laws to bring more workers in, rather than keep workers out.

This has been a fascinating election cycle and Josh has done well in covering it.

But the Freeper Poll shows me that the Polls show if anything a reluctance to like "any" of the front runners. Call it right wing elitist rejection, but, there seems a disatisfaction with the status quo, ask Hillary, ask any GOP member with a win. The party segments want to run a non-establishment candidate.

In fairness I donated to McCain in 2000, Bob Graham in 2004, and have only supported my congressman(R) to date this cycle, but the polls I'm wondering, are they reflecting the sentiment out there?

Will each state give us a contrarian candidate?

I would like to see a poll here, that asks whom you would choose, and then acceptnce to other candidates.

I expect Huckabee to have to attack Mit if he is to maintain the evangelical vote and hard-line segment of the GOP, or he was a passing fad. I expect something from surrogates that will focus on religion the same way that the Clintons and Obama are facing off over racial undertones.

But lets face it, FL is a BIG DAMN state, and if you poll one section of it, the panhandle, you get entirely different perspectives than say Miami.

Good coverage, great reads, well done Josh.

Now where is a poll and a means to insure that there is only one vote per netizen?

Count me among those who want Giuliani to do well. I fear that Mac will absord Guiliani's votes "MY FRIENDS".

That may end the bleeding for the GOP.

Keep Guiliani alive. Let Huck get most of Fred's votes and Mitt the rest.

Let them trade off lame victories and hobble all the way to the convention.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080122/D8UB6LH00.html

Jan 22, 5:11 PM (ET)

By RON WORD

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Republican Mike Huckabee said Tuesday his presidential campaign is facing financial difficulties with top advisers working without pay and some aides quitting.

The former Arkansas governor promised to remain in the race through next Tuesday's Florida primary, telling about 50 people, mostly University of Florida fraternity members: "We are taking a look at everything daily. But we will be here every day in Florida until next week."

Huckabee planned to attend a private fundraiser.

In an interview earlier Tuesday in Atlanta, adviser Ed Rollins said top advisers are working without pay and some have left.

"Most people are staying on," but a few have departed, Rollins said. "A number of people, including myself," have agreed to forgo their pay to spend as much as possible on television ads in vital states.

Campaign contributions continue to come in, he said. But he acknowledged that Huckabee is stretched thin as he tries to compete in Florida's primary and many of the two dozen states holding contests Feb. 5.

Huckabee's campaign has stopped arranging charter flights, hotel reservations and other means of helping journalists keep up with his movements. News organizations pay their own expenses, but empty seats on charter planes were costing the campaign money.

"We are running our campaign in a very frugal manner," Huckabee said. "We have operated in the black. If we don't have it, we don't expend it."

Rollins said the campaign plans to run some ads on cable stations in Florida, but it cannot afford broadcast rates. Huckabee is splitting time between Florida, Georgia and Arkansas this week.

One of Huckabee's rivals, Giuliani, has acknowledged that about a dozen of his senior campaign workers were forgoing their January paychecks in hopes of stretching out money.

Huckabee spoke at an anti-abortion rally Tuesday on the grounds of the Georgia Capitol before heading to Gainesville, without the usual press contingent.

Legalized abortion is "a national nightmare that needs to end soon," Huckabee told several hundred people huddled under umbrellas in a chilly drizzle. America's treatment of the unborn, he said, "will define us for the future." The remarks coincided with the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling that a woman has a constitutional right to have an abortion.

Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, favors constitutional amendments to outlaw abortion and same-sex marriage. He counts heavily on social conservatives and evangelical Christians, but he finished second to McCain in South Carolina in Saturday.

Associated Press Writer Charles Babington in Atlanta contributed to this report.