Category Archives: Mike Huckabee

Possible primary rivals hit pause

  By:  GARRY RAYNO New Hampshire Union Leader Staff MANCHESTER – With the New Hampshire Presidential Primary only a year away, there’s been more political “shadow boxing” but less brawling than seen in 2008. That’s how some political observers see it. But they say it’s unfair to compare the two cycles because 2008 was an [...]

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Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll

ABC News Political Director Amy Walter reports: In the first ever “straw poll” of New Hampshire Republican party committee members sponsored by ABC News and WMUR and sanctioned by the state Republican party, ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took 35 percent of the 276 valid ballots cast. This is just 3 percent more than Romney took [...]

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Insiders: Romney Is Top GOP 2012 Contender, Daniels Second

Rank the top 5 candidates, 1 through 5, in terms of whom you think is most likely to capture the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Republicans (107 votes) Jan. 2011 Insiders Index Score Change from Jan. 2010 Mitt Romney 78 -3 pts Mitch Daniels 37 +12 pts Tim Pawlenty 33 -13 pts John Thune 32 -6 [...]

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11 faith-based predictions for 2011

  [Editor's Note:  I am not endorsing the opinions in this article, but merely posting it to help inform our readers of what others are thinking as we head into the New Year.]  ~~John Cronin~~ By Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor To open 2011, CNN’s Belief Blog asked 10 religious leaders and experts – [...]

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Huckabee’s Strength

[Editor's Note:  I would take any news stories about Huckabee's alleged strength with a sizable grain of salt.....This candidate showed his true colors in the 2008 primary season with his bitter, ad hominem attacks on Gov. Romney.  Rather than staying focused on the issues, he brought in religious affiliations as part of the debate and [...]

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Mike Huckabee Wants Some Respect

By JONATHAN MARTIN & BEN SMITH POLITICO Dial down the deafening Sarah Palin buzz for just a moment: The most consequential decision in the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes could be whether Mike Huckabee decides to run again – and associates say the former Arkansas governor may well take the plunge. If Huckabee gets in, he [...]

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CNN Polls; Romney and Huckabee Lead Obama; Palin and Gingrich Trail

Yes, it’s early, but here’s a new CNN poll of the GOP presidential field: According to the poll, 21 percent of Republicans say they would most likely support former Arkansas Gov. and 2008 GOP White House candidate Mike Huckabee for their party’s 2012 presidential nomination, with 20 percent saying they’d back former Massachusetts Gov. and [...]

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Poll: Romney #1 for Republican Party Presidential Nod

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the early front-runner among potential Republican candidates for president in 2012, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. While former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin commands the national spotlight, turning out tea party activists and headlining rallies, for now it’s Romney who claims the lead at 25 percent, months before an [...]

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Pence Wins Straw Poll

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) won a surprise victory in the Family Research Council’s Values Voter presidential straw poll, narrowly edging out runner-up Mike Huckabee by 11 votes. Pence, the GOP’s Conference Chairman, won 24 percent of the vote, Huckabee 22 percent and Mitt Romney came in a more distant third, taking 13 percent of the [...]

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At Least 17 Republicans in 2012 Presidential Election Field

USNEWS.COM By Paul Bedard When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told us this week that the 2012 GOP presidential field will be “wide open,” we had no idea just how many Republicans might be marching to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada for the opening caucuses and primaries. Including Barbour, who will decide after the [...]

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