I would have thought that Huckabee would do well there given he’s from a neighboring state.
There are a lot of southern Baptists in the northern part of the state - fertile ground for Huckabee.
I thinkg the media has greatly over stated the opposition coming from evangelicals. In MI, Mitt actually got more evangelical votes than Huckabee and has had significant support from them elsewhere as well. The MSM wants it to be a big problem because that’s what their vision of what a Christian Conservative is: an intolerant hater. While they do exist, they are a minority and a shrinking one at that.
Does this mean that Catholics are generally anti-Huck?
I'm waiting for the guy to willow down to single digits. I cant see him drawing any new supporters, from anybody else.
it’s my understanding that they only chose delegates tonight and there’s a primary on the 29th. If one candidate gets 50 percent plus one on that day, it’s winner take all. if not, the the delagates are free to vote as they want.
“There are a lot of southern Baptists in the northern part of the state - fertile ground for Huckabee.”
You would think so...
But apparently Huckabee has very little presense here and very little organization. I don’t know how things are going to stack up. The sessions are closed now.
Results should start coming in....
Yeah, the joke is that northern Louisiana is actually southern Arkansas, or vice versa. it’s hard to figure out appeal, though. It was strange to me that people were flipping between Thompson and Huckabee. Those two were more different than Felix and Oscar.
They know him too well.
There are most Pentecostals and similar faiths with which I am not personally too familiar, and I don't know where they come down on the issues. But being in NE Louisiana, I can tell you that there are lots of conservatives here and that is not fertile ground for Huckabee. We don't necessarily vote for folks because Arkansas is a neighbor either. I'm just sayin'.
That doesn't say much for southern Baptists. ;)