[don-o]

He’s in it to spit the early gop primary proportional vote and aid Jeb going into Florida (winner take all).

Do you really believe that? I cannot buy into such. That may be the net effect, but it's hard for me to accept that is his intention. (And, to be clear - Huckabee makes my skin crawl.)

[Dr. Sivana]

He’s in it to spit the early gop primary proportional vote and aid Jeb going into Florida (winner take all).

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Do you really believe that? I cannot buy into such.

Agreed. The reason there are so many candidates, is that many want to be part of the Veepstakes, where it might actually HURT to be a top-tier candidate. After all, John Edwards wasn't Obama's running-mate, fifth-place single digit Joe Biden was. He played nice and took votes from HRC and Edwards, and is no threat to steal the spotlight.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Do you think Huckabee believes he can win? I don’t think he does. So, since Bush is the GOP-e pick, how does Huckabee splitting the evangelical vote help or hurt Bush? Going in Huckabee must know that he’ll pull votes away from other non-Bushes, essentially diluting any strength an anti-Bush candidate would have racking up delegates being proportionally awarded - then coming out of Fla, Bush could have a large delegate count with “winner take all” primaries being moved up by 2 weeks (basically, proportional primary dates have been cut in half, from a month to 2 weeks).