Poll shows Huckabee with slim lead over Obama in theoretical 2012 face-off

[proud2BlibKansan]

A survey released Friday by a liberal pollster showed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) in a dead heat with President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential race.

It's the first time Obama has not held a lead in Public Policy Polling's (PPP) monthly presidential tracking poll.

Huckabee led Obama by a slim, one percent margin 45-44. The poll has a margin of error of 2.8 percent.

But it's not clear if Huckabee, now a Fox News host, will enter the race. Huckabee received a spate of negative attention after it was revealed in November he granted clemency to a man who later shot dead several police officers in Washington State.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/77649-poll-shows-huckabee-and-obama-in-dead-heat

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I would say that, though interesting, it's way early.

He needs to be aware of it, of course.

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. And I don't think there is anyway Huckabee is going to run

[yurbud]

9. he strayed from GOP economic orthodoxy, so he can't be trusted by the money people

to carry their water.

[LakeSamish706]

2. Much to our chagrin, Obama is not living up to most expectations, to say the least.

Talk is cheap, and in the next three years he better learn to walk the walk if he wants to be more than a one term President.

[bluestateguy]

3. Huckabee on crime

[wisteria]

5. Oh gosh, are we getting into the silly season already? n/t

[Zoeisright]

6. Well, when the repukes take over again, and they will,

that will finally be the end. At that point, I'd say we just give up and let them have their way. Then the 'people' will see what real disaster is. I'm sick and tired of trying to protect people from their own stupidity.

[otohara]

7. President Huckabee Will Save Us.

being a man of God and all.
if he prays hard enough, all the USA jobs that have been shipped over seas will come back.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. LOL Only if God tells him to

[Lurks Often]

8. Yawn

We're 2 years out and this crap is starting already?

Besides how many people predicted McCain would be the Republican nominee, I certainly didn expect that.

[quantass]

10. Obama's has received some devastating lumps and so i am not surprised (he'll recover)

[Aramchek]

11. Dream On!

[Imajika]

12. Huckabee has no chance whatsover..

..of defeating Obama, and I am quite sure even Huckabee knows this.

The significance, if there is any, of this poll is only that it may be the first time any Republican has been shown defeating Obama for 2012.

Huckabee could not make it through a Republican primary now with his clemency problems having become a major issue at the grass roots level on the far right

The guy just has name recognition from his shows on Fox, and the rest of the media ignores him so his negatives are not highlighted anywhere.

No way, no how, no chance.

[AlinPA]

16. He will have the republican base, teabaggers and some independents. But what will

make him really dangerous will be the 10's of billions he will get from corporations for ads, print, GOTV mailers, etc. He has the name recognition and that publicity will make it daunting for us. The same goes for Palin.

[mikekohr]

13. MIKE HUCKABEE’S WILLIE HORTON

Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, the former governor from Hope, Arkansas, is hoping you don’t look in his closet because there's a Willie Horton hiding in there.

Huckabee's Horton, is a monster named Wayne Dumond. A criminal with a long rap sheet of assaults, and sexual molestations, Dumond was an admitted participant in massacre of a Cambodian village when he was stationed in Vietnam. Upon return to the United States, he admitted to participating in a claw hammer murder of a fellow soldier in 1972. Dumond was convicted of sexual molestation of a teen age victim in 1973 and confessed to a rape charge in 1976.

Huckabee, ignoring Dumond’s reprehensible criminal record, bought into the Clinton hating, rightwing, partisans, that were attempting to smear Bill Clinton in the rape of a 16 year old girl high school cheerleader that Dumond kidnapped at knifepoint, raped and terrorized for two days. Dumond was convicted of this crime in 1985 and sentenced to life plus 20 years.
Huckabee worked, against the advice of the parole board and law enforcement officials, to secure Dumond's release from prison. Dumond's 16 year old victim, Ashley Stevens, upon learning of Huckabee's attempts to free her assailant, met with the governor and said she put her face inches from Huckabee’s and said, “This is how close I was to Wayne Dumond. I will never forget his face. And now I don’t want you ever to forget my face.”

Undaunted, governor Huckabee toiled on, eventually securing Dumond's release from prison on the condition that Dumond move out of Arkansas. Dumond complied, and moved to Missouri, where six weeks later he raped and murdered, 39 year-old Carol Sue Shields. Dumond was convicted of Shields’ murder based on DNA evidence. Dumond died, peacefully in his sleep on 9/7/2005, before he could be brought to trial in the rape and murder of a second victim, Sara Andrasek.

Dumond’s murders committed after Huckabee had secured his release from prison resulted in a firestorm of public condemnation. The governor responded to the criticism by denying he had anything to do with turning Dumond loose on the American public, in spite of voluminous testimony to the contrary.

Blind adherence to rigid political ideology, an absolute refusal to accept advice from others and stubborn refusal to accept responsibility for his own actions, has not served George W, Bush well as a President. These shared character defects will not wear well on Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee either.

Ironically, or perhaps predictably, Huckabee is emerging as the consensus choice among so called Christian Conservatives. Go figure.

Written by: mike kohr 10/29/2007

Additional links:
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleVi...
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/... http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/ras...

Published at BuzzFlash.com:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contribu...

[SteveM]

14. He'll have to get past Rick Perry, the President of Texas...

The center of power in the U.S. IS Texas. The RW power mill IS Texas. GWB was milled outta Texas. Now, Rick Perry. Texas.

He will run as a populist and have people in the streets (the GOP has taken the Dem's issues AND their style). He is a standard bully who knows how to cow-down any DLC Democrat.

And folks now see this.

www.texasmonthly.com Early warning.

[Bleacher Creature]

17. We are so doomed in the 1/24/2010 Presidential election!!!!!

[backscatter712]

18. We can give the Rethugs payback for Willie Horton!!!

Hucksterbee walked right into it!

Karma's a bitch!!!