[Delacon]

” Huckabee and Thompson are largely competing for the same votes.”

Lets assume that Romney loses in MI. Look at Romney and you have a guy who SAYS all the right conservative things. Those conservatives who don’t like him are conservatives who don’t BELIEVE him because of his past actions and statements. Those Romney supporters in SC(and all the other states) are that because they DO believe him. Now Huck supporters in SC are for him not because he is a con but because he is a evangelical. His qualities aren’t going to attrack ex Romney supporters. McCain is seen as unreliably conservative, these qualities aren’t going to attract Romney supporters either or they would have already. These Romney voters who may see their candidate as down and out after MI are the votes available for the other candidates to pick up and they are there for Thompson to pick up. Not McCain, not Huckabee, and not Giuliani. Same goes for the rest of the south.

[Dr. Sivana]

Now Huck supporters in SC are for him not because he is a con but because he is a evangelical.

I am a Roman Catholic, and Huckabee is my distant #2 (after Fred), DESPITE his nannyism, because of life, guns, and I wouldn't mind tariffs on the Red Chinese. I know that Catholics are not plentiful in the deep south, but Wallace Democrats were not all Evangelicals, and many of them are choosing between Huck and Thompson.

I do not pretend to be a southerner, though I respect the south greatly (and maybe the best I can do for them is leave 'em alone.) But it might also be between Huck and Thompson for the same votes as they are both southerners.