Posted on 11/15/2007 2:26:57 AM PST by dano1
Mitt Romney, despite heavy spending and intensive campaigning, finds himself in a tightening battle with Mike Huckabee in Iowa, forcing Romney to confront aggressively an opponent with far less money and organizational backing who was far back in the polls a few weeks ago. more stories like this
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Seven weeks before the Jan. 3 caucuses, a New York Times/CBS News Poll published yesterday had Romney capturing support from 27 percent of likely Republican voters, but Huckabee within striking range with 21 percent. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was third with 15 percent, Fred Thompson had 9 percent, and John McCain and Ron Paul had 4 percent each. As recently as September, Huckabee was in the single digits.
"It happened," a memo from the Huckabee campaign said yesterday. "We broke 20% in Iowa, which pulled us to within 6% of Governor Romney!"
Huckabee has been staking much of his campaign on Iowa, hoping that a win in caucuses there, the first nomination votes of 2008, will vault his relatively shoestring candidacy to prominence in delegate-rich states. Romney has invested heavily in Iowa as part of his strategy to capture the early-voting states.
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On Fox News yesterday, Huckabee was more pointed in his response to Romney: "I guess Mitt Romney would rather keep people out of college so they can keep working on his lawn, since he had illegals there."
That refers to a Globe report in December that the landscaping service working on Romney's lawn in Belmont employed several illegal immigrants. Romney has said his family checked that the employer was legal, but didn't know about the workers.
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Huckabee = no credibility
I guess when you only have $2.95 in your campaign coffers, this is the only shill he could hire.
LOL!
lol funny. Is that quip original with you?
The above ommitted context seems important in understanding Huckabee's response:
"I guess Mitt Romney would rather keep people out of college so they can keep working on his lawn, since he had illegals there."
I think both Huckabee and Romney would do well to avoid using class warfare in this matchup.
Most voters don’t have either candidates cash on hand.
LLS
Giuliani the Hillary Clone
or
Huckabee the Nanny State Mammas Boy
I chose niether.
Slick Willard cannot afford to lose Iowa. He can’t even afford to win by fewer than eight-ten points. He’s poured everything into that place, and raised his expectations to the stratosphere.
Thats the problem with liberals like Huckabee, there's always a reason for more government handouts.
If there was a reason to vote for McCain or Rudy is that they don't have that squishy soft niceness about them.
Fred.
It’s not like they are faking left and are going to surprise and go full right when they get in. When did that ever happen?
Heck I might vote for someone that says they are going to teleconference and never even go to D.C. There’s something in the water there. Next time I down, I’m going to get ten gallons and drip drop it on e-coli. Maybe they’ll start mounting each other or stealing each others what ever it is bacteria eat.
Publish a paper. Maybe Free Republics first science paper.
Title, “E-Coli Response To Washington, D.C. Tapwater.”
His response is just a cheap shot that does not say Huckabee didn’t push for rewarding tbe criminals. He did.
Huckabee is another Jimmy Carter.
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