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I think people fool themselves here when they discount Huckabee’s electability. He had a mediocre budget and fantastic results in the voting booth. He played the press very well, getting good interviews, quotes, photo ops, and the attack ad played without his specific endorsement.

I believe the press is far more in favor of Mitt Romney, treating his religion with kid-gloves (until the general election), than Huckabee, where a bookshelf made headlines for its shape, and MSM debate questions often focus on difficult questions with Christianity, and there is no focus on difficult questions with Mormonism.

I think people fool themselves here when they discount Huckabee’s electability. He had a mediocre budget and fantastic results in the voting booth. He played the press very well, getting good interviews, quotes, photo ops, and the attack ad played without his specific endorsement.

If Huckabee had half the money of the ‘establishment’ candidates, the race wouldn’t even be close. The GOP is actually raising a lot of money now (Thank you, Mr. President). If Huckabee gets one more momentum shot and win, he will have plenty of money to win in Nov.

I believe the press is far more in favor of Mitt Romney, treating his religion with kid-gloves (until the general election), than Huckabee, where a bookshelf made headlines for its shape, and MSM debate questions often focus on difficult questions with Christianity, and there is no focus on difficult questions with Mormonism.

NPR, USATODAY and TIME, the core of the liberal media, have all started promoting Romney after polls came out indicating 47% of people will vote against Slick Mitt.

Do you think that the cross-bookshelf HURT Huckabee? Huckabee was working for the evangelical vote, and the news for two straight days (free press) was that he was so christian that he hid a cross in his advertisement.

That wasn’t a negative, that was free press.

The media is treating Romney’s religion with kid gloves because the media doesn’t think religion should be a factor unless the candidate makes it a factor. Huckabee puts his religion front and center, because it’s what brings out his voters. So the media covers it, just as Huckabee wants.

Huckabee is a very good campaigner. He’s slick. He’s personable. He’s gotten a lot of good media attention. He’s gotten some critical media since he won some elections, and it’s hurt him.