[the808bass]

If political stunts and grandstanding are how the "evangelicals" get their leaders, God help them. You just know this man has ulterior motives by hanging around in a race that he lost long ago.

The thing about identity politics is that it cuts both ways. If another evangelical ran with his Christianity on his sleeve, the evangelical vote would be divided. Perhaps next time, a tattooed evangelical comedian who programs video games can run against Huckabee.

And of course he has ulterior motives. He is an affirmation addict and jumped aboard the cult of personality train months ago.

[Wallace T.]

Wisconsin has its primary on Saturday, February 16th, and it looks like McCain will win here, since polls show him with a 20 point lead. Wisconsin’s main Christian faiths are Lutheran and Catholic, reflecting the largely Germanic heritage of the state. Huckabee has not broken out of the evangelical “ghetto” thus far. His strongest performance in Midwestern states like Michigan and Iowa have been in areas with strong Baptist, Christian Reformed, or charismatic beliefs. His weakest performance in Southern states have been in college towns and larger cities, where evangelicals are not dominant, and rural areas dominated by Catholics (South Louisiana) or mainline Protestants (upper Shenandoah Valley and Tidewater areas of Virginia).