“Tough to counter poll-tested platitudes. He preaches to the evangelical choir and is counting on his typical supporter to not have the interest or inclination to check his record.”
I agree that Mike Huckabee is counting on his supporters not checking into his record as governor. I hope they do and find out the truth. When and if they do they will most likely realize that Fred Thompson is the real conservative who will get things done that need to be done! GO FRED!
What the pollsters do is try to get every person who is polled to have an opinion. Pollsters never ask who are you going to vote for on election day. If they did most people would say... I haven't made up my mind. What the pollsters do is ask "If the election were held today which of the following list of candidates would get your vote? Out of the list of possible candidates the person polled tends to select the most famous nam.e
The winner is almost always the candidate that has gotten the most recent media attention. It has next to nothing to do with which candidate will get their vote on election day.
If Huckabee goes down to a massive defeat the media will tell you the attacks on him by Rush and others was very effective. If Huckabee wins they will tell you the attacks did not work.
In reality a large number of actual voters will not even decide to vote or whom to vote for until they are contacted by the candidate's supporters that go door to door and run phone banks in the final 72 hours of each states race.
I like Fred (he's the first campaign I donated to), and I like Hunter, but both are not winnable by any means with the general electorate. Hunter's a poor speaker and Fred is dull and boring (I remember when he had to ask for applause at the end of one of his "rallies"). Huckabee, when it comes to the general election, with his sense of humor and personality, will mop up Osama-bama and Hitlery without having the flip-flopping of Flip Romney and the extremely liberal record of Giuliani.