Yeah, and during the debates, I'm pretty sure he'd, like, actually have to talk to her. This tactic only works in the movies (and Anne Rice novels):
Posted on 12/11/2007 6:23:28 AM PST by tlb
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is surging in new polls of GOP candidates, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows he would lose to all three leading Democratic candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests.
In head-to-head matchups -- the first to include Huckabee -- the former Arkansas governor loses to Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York by 10 percentage points (54 percent to 44 percent), to Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois by 15 points (55 percent to 40 percent) and to former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina by 25 points (60 percent to 35 percent).
The poll comes on the heels of a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Monday that showed Huckabee doubled his support nationally among likely Republican voters in the last month and is in a statistical dead heat with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
But Huckabee's double-digit deficits with the leading Democrats likely suggest that the Arkansas Republican still lacks widespread name recognition.
The poll also shows that Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona would do best against leading Democrats. He beats Clinton (50 percent to 48 percent), ties Obama (48 percent to 48 percent) and loses to Edwards by a smaller margin (8 points) than the other Republican candidates do.
In addition to Huckabee, Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney lose to all three top Democrats in the survey.
On the Democratic side, Edwards performs best against each of the leading Republicans. In addition to beating Huckabee by 25 percent and McCain by 8 percent, the North Carolina Democrat beats Romney by 22 percentage points (59 percent to 37 percent).
While the survey shows McCain and Edwards performing best in their respective fields, both candidates continue to significantly trail their parties' front-runners significantly.
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This is a SET-UP, and the MSM won't attack him until they get him on the ticket....then, he's toast.
We don't need a RINO!
We can always hope the democrats nominate Mike Gravel to give the Huckster a fighting chance.
That’s why “Politico” favors him.
i really hope that republican voters can figure this out before they nominate this guy. he will be a disaster and an embarrassment for the gop. could hurt us down ticket too.
Hmmmm..John Edwards would do best against us? Something fishy about this poll.
Yeah, and during the debates, I'm pretty sure he'd, like, actually have to talk to her. This tactic only works in the movies (and Anne Rice novels):
Huckakis. Not only did he govern like Dukakis on crime, but he'll get to lose by Dukakis figures too.
Of course I greatly hope that the democrats are not that smart.
Huckabee cannot possibly pull together the coalition the Republican nominee needs to win.
Of course, neither can most of the other candidates.
Agreed, but if anyone benefits it's Rudy. There's got to be some cruel irony in there somewhere. ;-)
It’s got me wishing Jeb Bush had thrown his hat in the ring, family name & dynasty attacks be damned. At least he would unite the party, and Jeb would probably make the best president of the bunch too.
Set up indeed!
Hillary can call him a tax-and-spend creationist.
Game over.
Huckabee is a slicker than a greased eel preacher who sounds great, but who is selling conservatives a bill of goods.
He’s got zero, I mean ZERO credentials as a fiscal conservative (tax-and-spender), as a law-and-order conservative (bleeding heart on killers), foreign policy conservative (has a Jimmy Carter-style approach on Iran!). Great - his populism gets him rave reviews from liberals and union endorsements *now*, but its just a setup for later when they wheel out his objectionable views to characterize him as a loony/unprepared ... so we need that?!?
Given the choice between two union-butt-kissing Democrats, the voters will pick the real one every time.
No way would I ever support Jeb Bush.
CNN.....Disregard all data .....biased
I wont vote for him.
It’s a registered voter poll, but the MoE is 3. That’s a pretty well-designed poll, much better than most of the garbage the MSM has been churning out lately.
From the comments I read here on FR I would change that comment to "neither can any of the other candidates. I'm afraid the Republican Party has become too polarized to win any national election. The days of uniting the Reagan wing and the Bush wing of the party as we did in 1980 is long past.
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