What are people thinking?
Most people aren't. That is to say, most people who are registered voters aren't very informed about specific issues or policies, and they aren't very familiar with the records of specific candidates. Instead, they decide things on emotion or feel. Sadly, their votes count just as much as yours, or mine and there are a LOT more of those kind of voters than our kind of voters. That's the political reality.
Huckabee, for all of his policy faults, comes across as a reasonable and measured guy. "People" - the great unwashed masses - love that kind of thing.