The Pundits are Wrong
5 January 2008Watching the caucus returns Thursday night one thing stood out. Virtually all the pundits credited Huckabee’s commanding victory to evangelicals. It was often noted that Huckabee didn’t have his own ground team in Iowa. Rather, he had the natural ground team of local churches. This, they said, made the difference in Iowa but they speculated [...]
Early Iowa Observations
3 January 2008It’s late on caucus night and I’m about to go to bed. I’ll have more to say tomorrow but I didn’t want to close the evening without a few comments about the Iowa caucus and my predictions. I nailed Huckabee. He won with a significant margin. I was off on Romney and McCain. McCain didn’t [...]
Iowa Caucus Predictions
2 January 2008To voters in primary states the Iowa Caucus is not well understood. That’s because a caucus doesn’t work the way a primary works. In a primary everyone comes out and votes for their candidate and the one with the most votes wins. In some states if no one gets a majority of votes there may [...]
A Stroke of Genius
1 January 2008Amidst all the attacks against Mike Huckabee coming from the right has been the accusation that Huckabee just isn’t up to the job of being President. But he pulled off a stroke of genius in the last few days. I’m referring to Huckabee’s negative ad that isn’t. In an email to supporters Huckabee told about [...]
Attacks on Huckabee Continue
26 December 2007For months Mike Huckabee was ignored by the pundits. Then suddenly, Huckabee began to look like a viable candidate and the long knives came out. There has been much speculation about why this might be. Huckabee’s camp speculates that many had already picked their candidate and when Huckabee began to surge he was perceived as [...]
HuckChuck Facts
22 November 2007Glenn Beck Huckabee Interview
21 October 2007This is well worth the 30 plus minutes required to see it all. Governor Huckabee is knowledgeable, well spoken, clearly conservative and speaks with total conviction. If you are a conservative he deserves your consideration. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
I’ve Made Up My Mind
21 October 2007back in June I wrote a post about Mike Huckabee. In that post I talked about seeing Mike Huckabee in person and listening to him make his points and field questions. I was impressed with Huckabee then and really wanted to support him but I really didn’t think he had a chance so I was [...]
