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"Fading" Mitt Romney has gone Hillary on Mike Huckabee. One of the turning points of Hillary Clinton’s campaign was when she went personal on Barack Obama. She said that he wanted to be President since he was in kindergarten. Well. Romney, after achieving Clintonian honesty, is now borrowing Clintonian negative tactics. Today, his campaign sent [...]

I think that the only question left in Iowa is whether these attacks work. If this kind of thing sticks, then it is lights out for Mike Huckabee. If it doesn’t then this guy wins Iowa and is looking might fine. For more background, go here. The soft-on-crime meme could sit. On the other hand, [...]

The first negative TV ad of the cycle comes out with Mitt Romney attacking Mike Huckabee’s immigration position.  The commentariat and the Huckabee campaign have responded pretty sharply. Jonathan Martin called it "Mitt desperation". Chris Cilizza said: First, it attempts to blur any differences between Romney and Huckabee on issues of importance to social conservative [...]

Whoever is pushing these stories about Mike Huckabee’s religion, and I share Erick Erickson’s suspicions, might think twice about the unintended consequences of what they are doing. David Brody captures the problem nicely: By the way, don’t be surprised if this topic comes up at the next Republican debate this coming Wednesday in Des Moines. [...]

According to RCP, Rasmussen has the first Michigan poll in about a month. Normally, I don’t write about all the polls coming out. But this is the only data we have since the Huckaboom. In this data, we have Mike Huckabee at 21, Mitt Romney at 20, and Rudy Giuliani at 19. A Huckabee success [...]

Marc Ambinder has written about the family groups and pastors groups that are meeting to help Mike Huckabee in a bunch of the early primary states: Sources say that the Renewal Project, whose organizers are partial to Mike Huckabee, is planning three pastors conferences in Florida, one conference in New Hampshire (scheduled for Dec. 13 [...]

Well, this race is certainly in flux isn’t it? Two sets of polls The first is Rasmussen’s daily trackers for a little over a week. The second is RCP’s averages for the national race from Wednesday, December 5th. RCP messed up the dates a little. Rasmussen should have been at the top, rather than the [...]

Well, something weird is happening. People seem to think that Mike Huckabee is what Fred Thompson could have been. I think that a meme is born. JPod: Simple: Don’t think of Mike Huckabee as Mike Huckabee. Think of Mike Huckabee as Fred Thompson. Huckabee is filling the role Fred Thompson entered the race in September [...]

So much happened yesterday, and I was away from a computer for most of the day, that I was left nearly speechless. Perhaps the most interesting was Grover Norquist’s comments on Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee. Grover’s whole schtick for over a decade has been his tax pledge. You sign the pledge to not raise [...]

On November 19th, Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry published a very interesting cover-story in National Review. They argued that the situation that the party is in is much more dire. First, the diagnosis: So while Republicans are depressed these days, their condition is actually worse than they think it is. The deepest cause of the [...]