Actually if Huckabee can hold on to win it helps Thompson more than anyone if Fred can get around 20%.
I was thinking the same thing. All this democracy and voting and stuff is getting in the way of a lot of people’s hopes and dreams.
Is this your opus?
Huckabee will not win Iowa. His words and actions are catching up with him. Rush Limbaugh tapped a few more nails in Huckabee’s coffin today.
They have also continued to make excuses for Giuliani’s irrelevance in the early states.
Huck is done anyways.
Iowa. Big deal. Who won it in 2004? Didn’t Dean win there?
Iowa isn’t important.
Well the expected Iowa and New Hampshire combined vote amounts to about 0.0015% of the planned vote November 2008, so why is it problematic for Fox to point out the relative insignificance of those two primaries?
They mean very little in the overall scheme of things.
And no, I'm not for Huck, Hunter, etc. I like Fred.
Gee, Dane, I’m shocked, shocked that FNC has teamed up with Rush Limbaugh to torpedo your boy, Huckster! It’s all a big conspiracy to keep ole’ Aw Shucks Golly Gee Mike from becoming the POTUS. Can I get an AMEN? Please open your hymnals to p. 34...Onward Christian Fraud!!
Huckabee made his Dean moment this week with the ad stunt. That was the first time the press didn't want to buy his snake oil.
I listen to Rush nearly every day and have for years. When the nameless Huckabee campaign aide released his statement about Rush and gave Rush an excuse to open up on Huckabee (just as he was polling in first place in Iowa and beginning to move nationwide,) I thought why would anybody in Huckabee's campaign do such an idiotic thing? I don't believe anyone did. I think the aide is anonymous because it's nothing but a GOP ruse and Rush is carrying water to knock off Huckabee for them. Last, but not least, I'm no Huckabee fan, but then I'm no fan of any of them except Duncan Hunter, which means I have NO candidate.
Two good things will come from this year’s Iowa caucuses: Hillary and Huckabee will come in 3rd.
Then why have they spent millions of dollars and spent countless hours and days criss-crossing a state that doesn’t even have the topography to be considered fly-over country?
Me think. The Guilianni machine is lowering expectations. Bwaaahhaaa
The votes of Iowa caucus-goers have a damn good average in picking past candidates who were sling-shot on to win the Republican Party's nomination.
Republican Caucuses 8 elections, 6 winners a good winning percentage
2004- George W. Bush* (unopposed) 2000- George W. Bush* (41%) Steve Forbes (30%), Alan Keyes (14%), Gary Bauer (9%), John McCain (5%) and Orrin Hatch (1%) 1996- Bob Dole* (26%) Pat Buchanan (23%), Lamar Alexander (18%), Steve Forbes (10%), Phil Gramm (9%), Alan Keyes (7%), Richard Lugar (4%) and Maurice Taylor (1%) 1992- George H. W. Bush* (unopposed) 1988- Bob Dole (37%) Pat Robertson (25%), George H. W. Bush* (19%), Jack Kemp (11%) and Pete DuPont (7%) 1984- Ronald Reagan* (unopposed) 1980- George H. W. Bush (32%) Ronald Reagan* (30%), Howard Baker (15%), John Connally (9%), Phil Crane (7%), John B. Anderson (4%) and Bob Dole (2%) 1976- Gerald Ford* defeats Ronald Reagan (Numbers not available).
Hmmm..., very interesting...
I am kind of wondering why everyone moved their cauceses and primaries up if the turnout is going to be less than 10%