Huckabee hasn’t won any debates.
His surge has been solely based on his personality and humor as perceived by Joe six pack.
I am gonna go out on a limb here and predict that when it sinks into those folks that Huck is wrong on the issues, Fred will pick up the fallout.
He is correct on most issues and has the same type of wit, though slower and dryer.
Huckabee hasn’t won any debates. His surge has been solely based on his personality and humor as perceived by Joe six pack.
***I posted on the official discussion threads that by looking at the deltas in the Intrade results before & after the debate, it spit out Huckabee as the winner. Thompson was the loser of at least one. That’s an unbiased, objective analysis if it generates a candidate that I didn’t support as the winner. Have you ever posted such an analysis? Probably not.
After winning these debates, Huckster’s poll numbers rose. It may have an element of the Joe SixPack as you maintain, but it’s mostly the evangelical crowd. It was forecast before the huckster rise in this article...
Jill Stanek: Behind the scenes at FRC Briefing (Family Research Council)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915901/posts
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts