“A recent Arkansas poll shows Hillary crushing Huckabee 35 percent to 8 percent.”
What? Among Democrats?
Here’s what the Rasmussen poll reported ten days ago in Arkansas:
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
December 5, 2007
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee leads former Arkansas First Lady Hillary Clinton in the race for that state’s Electoral College votes. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that Huckabee attracts 48% of the vote in Arkansas while Clinton earns 42%.
Huckabee has an even larger lead in Arkansas when matched against Barack Obama. In that match-up, it’s Huckabee 54% Obama 35%.
Clinton...leads Giuliani by 14 points in Arkansas (49% to 35%) and holds a similar lead over Mitt Romney (48% to 34%).
Huckabee is viewed favorably by 66% of Likely Voters in Arkansas and unfavorably by 31%. Clinton is viewed favorably by 50% and unfavorably by 45%.”
The above poll in Arkansas points to a larger problem.
If the GOP nominates either of the two northeastern Yankees with liberal records on abortion and “gay rights” — Rudy or Romney — they will put even some southern states at risk against the Dems.
Huckabee, McCain, Thompson...all of them would carry a solid south, with Florida the contest it always is. (Though the poll suggests that Huck may be the only GOPer who can carry Arkansas against the state’s former First Lady.)
Winning Arkansas is not the same as winning the general election.