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If Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee run for president, their Iowa supporters could have a choice between the head or the heart. Or vote for someone else. Santorum and Huckabee won remarkable victories in the Iowa caucuses, galvanizing social conservatives to pull off unlikely upsets against amazing odds. But while the two had very different paths to victory in Iowa, they achieved it with similar coalitions of social conservatives and evangelical leaders.

(CBS) One month before the first votes are cast in South Carolina, a new CBS News poll finds Republican Mike Huckabee with a comfortable, if not overwhelming, lead over Mitt Romney, and a Democratic race that is even closer, with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a dead heat. Huckabee leads Romney by eight points among likely Republican primary voters, with Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain and Fred Thompson virtually tied for third place. On the Democratic side, Obama, at 35 percent, and Clinton, at 34 percent, lead among the state's likely primary voters, with John Edwards in third at...

Huckabee not aware of NIE report on Iran My colleague David Paul Kuhn attended an on-the-record dinner with Mike Huckabee and a group of reporters tonight in Des Moines. The transcript speaks for itself: Kuhn: I don’t know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday ... Huckabee: I’m sorry? Kuhn: The NIE report, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Have you been briefed or been able to take a look at it — Huckabee: No. Kuhn: Have you heard of the finding? Huckabee: No. Kuhn...

In recent years, Arkansas has been home to presidential scandals, tell-all mistresses and governors crammed into triple-wide trailers. Next year, it may also be ground zero in the fight for control of the Senate. While Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln has hewed to the center , supporting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, opposing the estate tax, supporting abortion rights, opposing school vouchers , Republicans say the first-term senator is vulnerable when it comes to guns and the war on terror. That's led GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee; Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary for border and transportation security at the Department of Homeland Security; and...