The media attaches itself to Huckabee for its own reasons. He’s had a meteoric rise in the polls recently, making him automatically newsworthy. The media really doesn’t understand social conservatives, and Huckabee indubitably ranks among them. This article purports to show a fracturing evangelical movement, and while social conservatives and evangelical Christians may disagree on the best primary nominee, few will vote for any Democrat.
The media easily can ride Huckabee now, but their favorable coverage of him (or any Republican) will end after the decision in the primary contest. We should anticipate that Hillary Rodham Clinton can and will raise and spend three to ten times more funds, primarily because campaign-finance rules do not apply to her. She can raise thousands of dollars each from paupers, beggars, homeless persons, schoolchildren, infants, and others whom no Republican dares to intimidate into donating.
If Huckabee were to be the nominee, he would lose AR handily in the fall, as AR voters continue with their long-held penchant for Democrat liberalism. They, for instance, preferred Bumpers liberalism to Rockefeller liberalism by a wide mile. HRC would just melt him away.