Posted on 12/07/2007 11:53:05 PM PST by dano1
Mike Huckabee has vaulted from nowhere into second place in the Republican presidential race, a nationwide poll showed yesterday.
The surge by the former Arkansas governor has come with support from evangelicals, Southerners and conservatives, and largely at the expense of former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, according to the national survey by The Associated Press and Ipsos.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani remains the front-runner at 26 percent among Republican and GOP-leaning voters, about where he has been since spring.
Huckabee has 18 percent, up from 10 percent in an AP-Ipsos survey a month ago and 3 percent in July. Arizona Sen. John McCain has 13 percent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 12 percent and Thompson 11 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Giuliani also remains the favorite of voters age 18 to 24. In a separate Harvard University Institute of Politics poll, he has the support of 26 percent, compared with 15 percent for McCain.
Among Democrats, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was the choice of 38 percent of young voters and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was next at 33 percent.
Obama: The Illinois senator is already reaping the benefits of Oprah Winfrey's high-wattage celebrity backing.
Thousands of Iowans have flocked to his office for tickets for two events today in Iowa. The campaign declines to say how many tickets have been distributed but says no one will be turned away from the unique opportunity to attract new voters.
Clinton: The New York senator yesterday turned to 32 former U.S. ambassadors and diplomats appointed to top positions by then-President Bill Clinton and confirmed by a Republican-led Senate to endorse her diplomatic skills as first lady.
The backers included former career diplomat Joe Wilson, the Iraq war critic who previously served as ambassador to Gabon; former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard, who served in Canada; former House Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash., who served as ambassador in Japan, and former Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn., who also served in Japan.
Thompson: Campaigning in Ohio yesterday, the former Tennessee senator criticized rival Huckabee, saying it was "surprising" a presidential candidate wouldn't know about a newly released intelligence report that said Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Huckabee told reporters earlier this week he was not aware of the National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran.
Thompson has been tripped up by news events himself. In September, he said he was not aware that the Supreme Court had decided to hear arguments on the constitutionality of lethal injection.
Early in his campaign, Thompson sidestepped a question about the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case, saying he didn't remember the details.
McCain: The Arizona senator yesterday said in New Hampshire that if he loses his bid for the Republican nomination, he'll return to the Senate. McCain would have two more years left in his fourth term.
“I never joined a cult and I am not a liberal. I win!”
No, you’re just silly and childish.
“Sticks and stones” Sister Flag.Being right means more than name-calling.Conservatism is rational debate not leftist emotional ad-hoc-ary.
“The 4th largest church in America is hardly a cult.”
All of the other top ten churches which happen to be Christan say that the Mormons are not Christian and have to be baptized.
“Conservatism is rational debate not leftist emotional ad-hoc-ary.”
Well, I’ll tell you what. You try having “rational debate” with ansell12.... unless you are just like ansell12 yourself. I’m going to bed. Have fun.
ESPECIALLY SINCE REPUBLICAN ACTIVISTS WENT FOR FRED 112 TO 51 OVER HUCK ONE WEEK AGO AT THE GOP MEETING IN ARLINGTON
I agree with enjoying the fury over Huckabee! What tantrums! The truth is with the economy starting to struggle, I can’t think of a better candidate to win in 2008. He comes across well on TV and seems to be the best retail politician running in either party. He is definitely able to reach out better to the middle class who is having a difficult time paying the bills with high gas and food prices. All of our candidates have flaws but Huckabee with his ability to communicate to the electorate will win the day if given the chance.
Great! That's about 10% of what conservatism is about.
How is he on lowering taxes? What is his philosophy on the economy? Where does he think the federal government has too much power and how would he reduce it? Is he serious about pushing a national sales tax or is that just pandering?
Interesting that Huckabee, Romney, and Rudy point to being elected in a liberal state as a positive thing.
If Mormons were around in America before 1776,would they have been persecuted? Seems to me the Church of England was the enemy of America at the time and it was VERY Christian (almost Catholic).The religeous intolerance of the Anglican Church was a major bone of contention between England and her North American colonies.This is where the constitutional “Freedom OF (NOT from)Religeon” has it’s roots.
Protestants,Catholics and Mormons worship Christ in diferent ways.All three have scriptures unprovable by empiracal evidence.
So faith is fact to the faithful and the only logical response to the eternal grave of the athiest.Christianity,like conservatism,is what works and I would not subvert the basic dogma out of personal sectarian vanity.
Let the Muslims do that.
I don’t know about all that Mormon stuff, but I do know what all of the other nine churches among the largest ten agree on, and that is that the Mormons have to be baptisted because they are not Christians.
Well,at least in our disagreements we aren’t blowing each other’s churches up.
Great to be in America,ain’t it?
“Well,at least in our disagreements we aren’t blowing each other’s churches up.”
I guess, earlier I thought that you were trying to act like Mormons are Christians. I don’t know what “each other’s churches” means, but it seems to mean something to you, so OK.
Thank you. Thompson/Hunter 2008
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I’d vote for McCain before I will vote for rootiromneyhuck. I will not vote for President if any of those three are the nominee... and I have voted Republican since I could vote... and I voted for NIXON my first time out! I will never again vote for a liberal... and all three are screaming liberals... and their records prove it!
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Amen!
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