A Tale of Two States (Iowa, South Carolina)

National Review - Campaign Spot ^ | December 19, 2007 | Jim Geraghty

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Arkansas Governor Huckabee’s appeal can’t be strictly religious. Or at least it isn’t limited to it.

Iowa is five percent Baptist. South Carolina, by comparison, is 45 percent Baptist.

And yet in Iowa, Huckabee’s taking off — 31 percent in the Quad City Times poll, 36 percent in the Hotline/FD poll, 39-percent in Rasmussen, and 30 percent in the Strategic Vision poll. In all of those polls, his closest competitor Mitt Romney is stuck in the mid-20s.

In South Carolina, Huckabee has jumped, but finds himself in a much tighter race — up six in Insider Advantage, up 7 in Rasmussen, up 3 in Mason-Dixon, up 11 in Survey USA, up 7 in CNN. He tops out at 30-percent in Survey USA’s poll, and it’s getting 20 to 25 percent of that field in the other polls. And the most recent Rasmussen poll released this week puts him tied with Romney. More at

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A very informative article on the effects that religion and national security may have on the two different states of Iowa and South Carolina. I suggest reading the entire article.

Geraghty ends the article with this: "But it is worth remembering that there is no cookie-cutter model for an evangelical Republican primary voter or caucusgoer, and that what flourishes in an Iowa cornfield won’t necessarily grow in the swamps of the South Carolina Low Country."

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HUCKABEE - Best DEMOCRAT in the race, nuf said.

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That’s why I’d vote for Huckabee over Rudy or Romney, easily — Huckabee is actually conservative on some issue, like a blue dog Democrat, while Rudy and Romney are pure scum.

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Don’t really care for the DEMOCRATIC... POPULIST ...WOLRLD AFFAIRS IGNORANT.....BUSH BASHING...LIBERAL LEANING... PAROLING GIVING... WELFARE STATE MINDED...AMNESTY SUPPORTING....MORE GOVERNMENT CONTROL FREAK.... PREACHER HICK FROM ARKANSAS,
..........although he is the best DEMOCRAT running.

I think that covers him pretty well.

“Sadle up FRED”

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Did you read the whole article?

I am not a Huck supporter and there is some good analysis of the status of the election in those states. I don't necessarily agree with said analysis, but it's something to consider.

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I am not a Huck supporter and there is some good analysis of the status of the election in those states. I don't necessarily agree with said analysis, but it's something to consider.

It seems to many Republicans that evangelicals and Huckabee are one and the same. They read the word Huckabee and go off in a tizzy and are unable to see the value of the rest of the article.