Posted by Damozel |I see in my battered (circa 1960's) magic eight-ball---which my grandmother once called an instrument of the devil--- a Romney-Huckabee ticket, with the GOP using the reverend Huckabee to dilute resistance among the base to Romney's Mormonism. Could that be possible? If---speaking as a Democrat---I had to choose, it would be Romney by a moonlight mile; I don't like the things he says, but his record seems to suggest he might not be as bad as he seems. Might we wind up stuck with both? It is a bit of a worry presently, thanks---according to WaPo---to all those church ladies who would feel much better about politics if the president were both a president AND a preacher.
Women now support him over Romney by an 18-point margin; men divide their votes about evenly between the two.
Over the past month, Huckabee's support among women has doubled, from 22 percent to 45 percent. Female voters have largely abandoned Thompson over the same period, with their support dropping from 14 percent to 3 percent. (Surging Huckabee Takes Lead in Iowa)
According to WaPo, Huckabee's support among evangelical women is a sign that "social conservatism with a smile" works.(WaPo) Translation: if you want the church-lady vote (the other kind of church lady, not my kind), you need Huckabee.
Four in 10 women said the more they hear about the former Arkansas governor, the more they like him, more than double the proportion saying they like him less as they learn more.
A third of those polled said Huckabee best represents the core values of the Republican Party, whereas 25 percent said Romney does. Huckabee's advantage again stems from women: Fifty percent of women, but only 24 percent of men, said he is the GOP's best standard-bearer.
For all of Huckabee's progress, however, the poll shows a tight race with Romney, whose support has remained stable since the summer.
Romney maintains advantages among voters as the GOP's most electable candidate and the one with the best experience to be president. He also has more committed and more enthusiastic support than he did a month ago.(Surging Huckabee Takes Lead in Iowa)
In the meantime, Newsbusters has a suggestion for the Huckabee campaign:
Mike Huckabee might want to "revise and extend" the remarks of his Iowa campaign manager. Appearing on this evening's Tucker on MSNBC, Bob Vander Plaats stated that "we're fighting a radical religion in Islam" and that "the war on terror is a theological war."
View video here. (Huckabee Iowa Manager: 'War on Terror a Theological War')
Yikes.
Well, and there's also this.
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