Keep in mind that two months ago people were thinking Huckabee would never make it out of the second tier.
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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“Hillary can call him a tax-and-spend creationist.”
That would be like hillary attacking say condi rice for being a Woman (the tax and spend part).
Huck would kill her if she went down that road simply by enumerating every federal program she has proposed during the course of the campaign....
Huckabee is DOA in a general... lets face it he’s already essentially said his candidacy is one of divine providence. That alone assures him of defeat in the general.
DNC staffer on Huckabee: “His letting out murderers because they shout ‘Jesus’, his wanting to put 300,000 AIDS patients and Magic Johnson into isolation, ain’t even scratching the surface of what we’ve got on him.”
My apologies for being testy this morning. I’ve been working on some other things that are due in an hour.
That's the most-feared combination of the Liberals, MSM, and the rest of the looney Leftists....
Thompson/Hunter, OR Hunter/Thompson would be putting the Country back on the right track.
Keep in mind that two months ago people were thinking Huckabee would never make it out of the second tier.
Hoping he wouldn’t is more like it.
Time for him to go back.
Hillary is to Huckabee like spider is to fly.
I could be persuaded to vote for Huck. It'd be a seriously major nose-hold though. He's pro-life and pro-gun, but there is very little else to recommend him.
I still think Hunter and Thompson are our best bets. Either would slaughter the Dem nominee no matter who they are. Unfortunately, the GOP is betting on whoever the liberal Media driven popularity contest is going to select. Principles just don't seem to factor much...
Letting your enemies pick your Generals for you isn't a winning strategy. Or is this more "strategery"?
Easy to beat those ads with just two of our own: 1) A slow helicopter pan over his little 100,000 square foot shack; 2) the video of him having his hair brushed for 10 minutes.
Of course I am pessimistic. I don’t believe either Thompson or Hunter have any chance at gaining the nomination. Even on the outside chance one of them would get it the RINO faction would give lukewarm support, if any. The same goes for Rudy, Romney or Huckabee. Many conservatives would sit out and, through twisted logic, help elect a Democrat. No, I think we are putting ourselves in a no-win situation by demonizing each one of our primary candidates for one issue or another. The rift we are creating might be too much to repair by next fall.
That’s great to hear. Is C-SPAN broadcasting it live tomorrow?
Well, I guess we all best just curl up and die. We’re doomed!
I’m wondering why the GOP leadership has determined that we can’t have someone who is a social conservative, a fiscal conservative, support reducing the size of government, and strongly prosecute the GWOT. I don’t know that anyone in the race has all those traits, except for Duncan Hunter. I like Hunter as I think that philosophically he is Reagan’s true heir, but right now he doesn’t appear to have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning.
No, we are not doomed. But it ain’t lookin’ too good...
Like you, I agree with Rep. Hunter more often than I agree with any other presidential candidate, but Huckabee is most likely to win, according to recent elections.
Two of the last three republican presidents were governors, and Huckabee was a governor longer than Bush & Romney, combined. One president was elected while the candidate was a U.S. rep., James Garfield, in 1880.
Something fishy here hmmm
You’re right. The article says registered voters, the actual poll was of adults. Trust CNN to misrepresent their own poll.
Rudy is the most electable
Would someone PLEASE define “most electable” - please!?!?
I’m glad that Huckabee surged when he did with plenty of time for people to find out the truth about him.
I think we have a lot of confused voters on the Republican side. They want a true conservative and:
Guiliani: an attractive personality, quick wit, and good reputation as New York mayor in stopping crime and other good works. minuses: personal life and not especially conservative on pro-life issues, also, iffy on illegal immigration.
Romney: seems a little plastic; changed positions on conservative issues; just not quite ...
Duncan Hunter: his supporters are finally admitting to themselves that he is not a starter...not this time. They are looking around.
that leaves:
Fred. Consistently conservative, strong presence and reliability, would make mincemeat out of Hillary, but do it in a southern gentleman fashion, so she never knew what hit her.
I hope we will rally around Fred, our best chance and our best candidate.
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