Why Huckabee is the Best General Election Candidate and What Makes Him the Ideal Candidate to Win (V

Myth Debunker | 12/14/2007 | Yomin Postelnik

[ejonesie22]

Once Great?

Try still great. Number one political site on the web according to hit wise...

[HAL9000]

It's the "new guy" syndrome.

Fred is the "new guy" - he was the last one to enter the race.

[Kevmo]

If the pro-life evangelical liberal Hucksterbee can rise in the polls, so can the pro-life evangelical conservative Hunter.

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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
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[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Depends on what you're considering spam (are you referring to the many pro-Huckabee/illegal alien articles or to something personally post?).

You're Yoda-ese is pretty cool, but Dane and dano1 were the ones you slighted--you didn't personally slight (and will give you that tend to personally butt in when probably should just not become directly involved).

Also, since the last post to you, have looked at both dano1 and Dane's (and Yomin's) FRhomepages. They are all fairly 'old'. Dane has been here since 1998, dano1 since 2000, and Yomin since 2004. Dane's has already stated that Dane is not dano1, so this is purely hypothetical. If Dane made dano1 and Yomin aliases, that would demonstrate a lot of unnecessary foresight, as he hasn't been banned from FR and three freeper usernames aren't going to make all that much of a dent in changing the already quite set opinions of freeperdom on aliens and Huckabee. As for just joshing around pretending they are the same (as some might do--not actually believing Dane has multiple usernames, but acting as though those with similar views are a carbon copy clone), can personally see that, but they should still be pinged. That's just opinion and what have read (on FR) about netiquette here. If you were the one being insulted, for most intents and purposes behind your back, wouldn't you want to be at least pinged so you could defend yourself or even just to see what others were typing about you?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Borrowing from you:

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The big ole' intersection on that graph coincides pretty close to the Republican 'immigration' (primarily illegal alien) debate. Either the pollsters are polling both citizens and non-citizens, or [Latino] voters who tended toward the Republicans a). Make up a larger amount of the Republican electorate than they seem to be, or b). were disproportionately polled.

Giuliani and Thompson both take big drops, though Thompson was already falling (and goes from second to fourth) while Huckabee rises considerably, although from your graph, the slope was steady from before the debate and after it. Sort of going against the trend is Romney, perceived as relatively tough (compared to Huckabee) on illegal aliens, but not much affected by the debate, either.

Anyhoo, (to all) is there some place on the internet where there are audio links to the debates? (video tends to freeze on this computer). The RNC website either didn't have them, or they weren't very easy to find.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

It's still 'great.' As you've pointed out, it is the largest political forum on the internet.

However, it is not so 'great' as it once was. Surely you've noticed that there a much fewer posters and articles being posted, and that the range of opinions are smaller than they once were (and this is coming from a relative 'newbie', for 'older' freepers it is probably even more pronounced). Sort of stinks that many of the racist freepers haven't disappeared. Would pick the Macroevolutionists over them many-a-day (for the large part, they weren't that offensive, and often had interesting science that they used to support their viewpoints--which were still off, but the science they brought up was useful and interesting.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Rats. That was a great opportunity to use the align picture ‘feature.’

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

It's still 'great.' As you've pointed out, it is the largest political forum on the internet.

However, it is not so 'great' as it once was. Surely you've noticed that there a much fewer posters and articles being posted, and that the range of opinions are smaller than they once were (and this is coming from a relative 'newbie', for 'older' freepers it is probably even more pronounced). Sort of stinks that many of the racist freepers haven't disappeared. Would pick the Macroevolutionists over them many-a-day (for the large part, they weren't that offensive, and often had interesting science that they used to support their viewpoints--which were still off, but the science they brought up was useful and interesting.

[x]

Fred is the "new guy" - he was the last one to enter the race.

Okay, but look at Huck, down under 5% until he finally took off or broke out, and now he's flying high.

I don't think voters have really given him the same scrutiny that they've given McCain or Giuliani.

When they do, they may find he's not as good as he appeared at that breakout or takeoff moment.

[x]

to say Huckabee is like Clinton just underlines the degeneration of this once great forum.

It does sound like overkill. I came across a blogger who compared Huckabee to Carter, though.

Not to talk about character or personality, though, just this: Carter just didn't have the experience when he got to Washington. Also he never wholly won over part of his party, so he had Kennedy challenging him in the primaries.

I'm not saying Huck is going to turn out to be just like Carter, but in an enviroment where you have to be one thing or another, Huckabee (like Carter) tries to be too many things to too many people to be successful.

[lesser_satan]

Why Huckabee is the Best General Election Candidate and What Makes Him the Ideal Candidate to Win SUCKS: The REAL Mike Huckabee

[Yomin Postelnik]

That’s nonsense. Effective general election strategy has more to do with the candidate and his/her core positions than almost anything else - every time. If you don’t see that I see why the rest seems like “emotions” to you.

For example, see what the Dems have in store if we’re saddled with Rudy or with someone too slick and cliche like Romney.

[Yomin Postelnik]

They’re not fawning all over him. They trash him in the most subtle of ways but consistantly. Everyone watching hears them keep saying he can’t win. That’s the message they keep sending out and that, as Michael Reagan points out, is telling.