Huckabee
What Huck Can Do
By Mark Silk — February 5, 2008
What Super Tuesday has shown is that in a state with lots of evangelicals, Huckabee can eke out a victory in a three-man race.
Huckabee a.k.a. David
By rvineis — February 5, 2008
Huck began his speech tonight stressing the importance of “one smooth stone”.
LDS Love Loss for GOP
By rvineis — February 4, 2008
Richard Cullen of the Politico alerts those keeping track at home of Tuesday’s big contest to move Utah out of the Mike Huckabee column. According to Cullen, many Mormons still harbor great resentment from Huck’s “the Devil and Jesus are brothers” slight. In the general election against a Democrat, polls have the sunny Baptist losing […]
Dems Heart Huckabee
By rvineis — February 4, 2008
Brett Grainger of the Christian Science Monitor has an interesting take on Mike Huckabee. Grainger feels that Huck’s progressivism has widened fissures in the evangelical movement that bode ill for the GOP. Grainger: "Republicans can no longer take Evangelicals for granted simply by beating up the old piñatas of abortion and gay marriage. While a […]
The UnObama
By Mark Silk — February 4, 2008
The struggle against cognitive dissonance continued for Mike Huckabee’s disappearing campaign in the run-up to Super Tuesday. Speaking over the weekend at Church of Christ-affiliated Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, Huckabee declared, “I want to be president of everybody,” while many in the crowd of hundreds waved signs that read, “Us Against Them!”
What Happened to Huck?
By Mark Silk — January 31, 2008
Vanity Fair‘s James Wolcott has this dispeptic assessment of the Huckabee failure: The zombie march of Giuliani’s and Fred Thompson’s maladroit campaigns will entrance political dissecters for seasons to come but less remarked is the misguided direction the Huckabee campaign took after its win in Iowa. Despite his financial disadvantages, Huckabee had a real opportunity […]
Sunshine Christian Soldiers
By Mark Silk — January 29, 2008
Here’s a Florida pastor’s cri de coeur for Huckabee: Where have all the evangelicals gone? The polls show Huck struggling in fourth place. If there are as many evangelicals in Florida as John Green thinks there is, then a smaller proportion of them are voting for Huckabee than elsewhere. Of course, there are various possible […]
Huck Hope
By Mark Silk — January 28, 2008
OK, so the Washington Post‘s Joel Aschenbach doesn’t deal in profundities, but how do you do a little profile on the Hope, Ark. that both Billy Clinton and Mike Huckabee came from, and write a sentence like this–“Anyone on the Huckabee trail in Hope has to pay a visit to a local dentist, Lester Sitzes […]
Give Peace and Huckabee a Chance
By rvineis — January 27, 2008
Deacon Keith Fournier gives us a Catholic and former Democrat’s perspective on Mike Huckabee. Fournier has had it with Republican attacks on the Huckster. Dismissing criticisms that Huckabee is a one trick evangelical pony, Fournier highlights Huck’s strengths with a comparison to David and Goliath. Fournier: “Oh, I know, the new line of he media […]
Huckabee’s Dough
By Mark Silk — January 27, 2008
This from John Green: Let me hazard an answer to Mark’s puzzlement about Mike Huckabee’s well-documented fundraising woes. Several factors are worth considering. It could be, as Mark suggests, that some wealthy Republican donors have been put off by the candidate’s populist stands on economic issues. Likewise, stalwart conservative contributors may dislike his political heterodoxy. […]
Huckapenury
By Mark Silk — January 26, 2008
Since the Los Angeles Times reported on MIke Huckabee’s fundraising woes–staff cuts, minimal ad buys in Florida–a few days ago there’s been little sign that things are picking up for him. What I’ve been puzzling over is why. Sure, the Washington Post described the rank and file of the religious right as “poor, uneducated and […]
Huckabee and the Born Again Vote
By johngreen — January 21, 2008
In a previous post, Mark noted Huckabee’s similar performance among born again voters in Iowa (46 percent) and South Carolina (43 percent) and wondered if the religious differences among evangelicals haven’t been overstated. This is a good point: Evangelicals may be more alike than different in the context of a Republican primary. But a look […]
…but no cigar
By Mark Silk — January 19, 2008
The exit polls show that Huck more or less remains contained within the evangelical box. The Catholics in SC just had little use for him, and although there aren’t many in the state (14 percent) they preferred McCain to Huck by nearly four to one–more than enough to carry him to victory. Some of Huck’s […]
Huck’s Big Day
By Mark Silk — January 19, 2008
So what will it be for Mike Huckabee in SC–the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? If he doesn’t beat out John McCain for the win, the obits will start to roll in: He wasn’t ready for prime time, the GOP establishment laid him low, he couldn’t build out from his […]
Huck’s religion, Salon version
By Mark Silk — January 18, 2008
I’m in Chicago, too tied up to blog. So check out Salon’s package on Huck’s religion for now.
