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Being Mike Huckabee By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, August 19, 2007 Whose yardstick do you use to measure the impact of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s second-place showing in the Iowa Straw Poll? The Democrats’. “If he had money, he would be our worst nightmare,” says Democrat strategist John Lapp. Lapp, who helped bring down Republicans in 2006 as executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said “the real threat of Mike Huckabee is that he is a happy warrior, a down-home guy comfortable in his own skin. Right-wing conservatism with a smile.”

On Sunday, Mike Huckabee crossed the New York City Marathon's finish line after a grueling race that he says was both his proudest, and for sure, his most painful. Until last week, he was unsure if he would be able to run in what would be his fourth marathon, due to a nagging knee injury that had forced him to go under the doctor's knife twice to drain a buildup of fluid. The thought of not running on Sunday was devastating to a man who had trained so hard for so long. He finally told his doctor that he...

Mr. Huckabee said he approved of virtually everything in the Monday night speech on immigration by Mr. Bush, including his National Guard and guest-worker initiatives, even though that agreement put Mr. Huckabee at odds, he said, with some fellow conservative Republicans. "I do believe some of it is driven by racism or nativism," he said of the opposition within his party to Mr. Bush's view that illegal aliens should not be deported but rather fined and eventually allowed U.S. citizenship. "It's not amnesty to make people pay for breaking the law," Mr. Huckabee said.

You've got to give the Democratic National Committee credit: It's not about to be caught flat-footed in 2008 if a Republican dark horse emerges in the coming presidential race. Nearly three years before Election Day, the DNC opposition-research department has begun digging up dirt on potential Republican candidates. It's a pretty straight-up approach: File Freedom of Information Act requests with several offices of agencies related to the potential candidate and see what comes back in the mail. Take Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as an example. He's one of the dozen or so DNC targets. One FOIA landed at the Arkansas...

DES MOINES, Iowa Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has opened a two-day visit to Iowa by saying he's pondering a run for the Republican presidential nomination. He said in an appearance tonight on Iowa Public Television's "Iowa Press" program that he'll make a decision in about a year. He said, quote, "What I really want to sort through in this process is would there be something unique that I would bring to the discussion," end quote. During his visit to Iowa, Huckabee is scheduled to meet with Republican leaders and members of the state's influential Christian Coalition. Then he plans to...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, starting a two-day visit to Iowa, said Friday night that he's pondering a run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination and that he will make a decision in about a year.Huckabee planned to meet with members of the state's influential Christian Coalition before attending a Polk County Republican picnic Saturday night.Huckabee is completing his second term as governor and cannot run again, leading to speculation he will either seek the GOP presidential nomination or run for the U.S. Senate.As many as 80,000 victims of Hurricane Katrina have come to Arkansas, and...

In a impassioned speech before hundreds of influential Hispanic civil rights leaders from across the nation, Gov. Mike told a captive audience Wednesday that America is great because it has always opened it doors up to people seekign a better way of life.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Imagine this: A man from Hope with a weight problem serves more than 10 years as Arkansas governor, makes cross-country connections through his leadership of the National Governors Association and weighs a run for the White House. Bill Clinton? Not this time. Mike Huckabee, a Republican who took over as governor at the height of Clinton's Whitewater scandal — and who lost more than 100 pounds while promoting health in an unhealthy state — is being talked up for a presidential run after he leaves the Governor's Mansion in 2007 at age 51. His new weight-loss...

Gov. Mike Huckabee is running for president, reporter says.

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Interview Q&A with Mike Huckabee C-SPAN, Q&A Washington, District of Columbia (United States) ID: 185230 - 01/21/2005 - 0:57 - $19.95 Huckabee, Mike, Governor, R-AR Governor Huckabee discusses how he came to be governor of Arkansas, what it would take for him to run for president in 2008 and his political philosophy.