He has no chance for the presidential nomination. He’s running for VP.
Maybe so. However Huckabee is slowly but steadily moving up in the polls and he does still seem to have a lot of potential to move up further.
There are a lot of indications of this. Many, many people have still never heard of him. Past experience shows that once people do become aware of him, many do tend to support him. Polling data shows that Huckabee supporters tend to be relatively unlikely to say they would consider switching to another candidate. Even this Sunday article in the Boston Globe shows the MSM itself is starting to take his campaign a bit more seriously. Also too, one assumes that some pragmatic voters who previously ruled him out as a fringe candidate might reconsider this decision when his campaign numbers begin to edge up into double digits and as Huckabee begins to pass some better known names in the polls, as is already starting to happen in Iowa.
For further anecdotal evidence, look at the huge bounce Huckabee got from placing second in what presumably should have been a relatively meaningless Iowa straw poll. IMHO, the superball-like bounce he got from the Iowa straw poll is indicative of the large, latent potential Huckabee's campaign still has in the polls. Contrast this Iowa straw poll bounce, for example, with the fizzled response some other candidate's have recently drawn from much more highly-publicized but tepidly-received debate performances.
So while Governor Huckabee may not be able to win, IMHO the polling data is clearly showing that he still has a lot of upside potential to do much better in the polls than he is currently doing.
Elections are determined by the voters, not the media. At the same time, I don’t like Huckabee’s position on illegal immigration.