One thing is clear you have an agenda, those down ticket losses would have been much worse if McCain had not chosen the one politician in America as his veep that kept this election from being a total catastrophe.
Weren’t you a Huckabee die hard?
That's possible, but again, there's no way to put hard numbers on it. Would conservatives have stayed home and allowed Obama to get elected unchallenged? I guess it's possible, but there is no way of knowing for sure.
Any conservative who would have failed to vote in Congressional elections merely because they didn't like the Presidential candidate are pathetic creatures, in my view. I was voting for Scott Garrett no matter what.
Weren’t you a Huckabee die hard?
Nope. I started out as none of the above, hoping someone would emerge other than the pathetic field we had. When Fred popped up, I checked him out, quickly sized him up for what he was--a waste of time--and kept watching. My vote didn't come til Super Tuesday, so I had the luxury of time.
By Super Tuesday, the conservative pundits were advising a vote for Romney as the only way to stop McCain. So, I voted for Romney. It turned out to be a waste of time, but oh well.
The one thing I did say about Huckabee at the time was that out of all the candidates, he was the craftiest and the cagiest. He didn't have the establishment support of McCain, or Romney's money, but he made what he had go a long way. He was tagged as a nannystater early on, and rejected by the base as a whole. But he had the most skill when it came to communication, generating news, etc.